What many of us don't realise is that AI isn't some far-off technology that only exists in film-maker's imaginations and computer scientist's labs.
He's placing a series of bets on far-off technologies that he hopes can turn garbage into more valuable commodities like ethanol, diesel, gasoline, natural gas or chemicals.
The company perhaps hasn't helped its case by showing far-off technologies like flexible and foldable displays over the years — concepts that showcase how far we still have left to go before making the next major breakthrough in the mobile computing form factor.
But as if to illustrate just how far off fuel cell technology may be, neither of two vehicles powered by fuel cells was able to complete a technology competition that ended today, which was organized to demonstrate cleaner, more fuel-efficient light trucks.
Mr Juma thinks the day is not far off when such technology, combined with ground-based monitoring, will help Africans measure trends in deforestation, soil erosion and climate change, and assess the effects on their local environment.Make a startThat is at once a sweeping vision and a modest one.
ANAN, JAPAN The inventor of the world's first bright blue light-emitting diode (LED) and leader in the race to commercialize a blue laser is an easygoing researcher far off the beaten technology track in Japan.
Optimizing hybrids work best not only when the threat of disruption is far off but when emerging technologies can be combined with existing ones and the hybrid is targeted at the existing customer base.
He pulled off these feats while working at this small company, far off the beaten high-technology track on Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four major islands.
Back then, the technology was far off and impossible.
While mind-reading technology remains far off on the horizon, charting how language is organized in the brain brings the decoding of inner dialogue a step closer to reality, the researchers said.
Technology, reaching far off the grid and into the depths of the world's mightiest mountains, showed the earthquake's devastation.
