[NEWS] Five future links: oceans, robots and jobs, mechanical telepathy, Africa, starships

[rfmcdonald]

• This Wired article suggests that judicious use of the oceans, including taking care of shorelines and using alternative energy but not including iron fertilization, could help save us all.


• Robots may take jobs, but Ramona Pringle suggests robots will also create jobs, too. It's just a matter of planning adequately for upskilling. CBC has it.


• Technology Review reports that scientists have developed a system allowing three different people to exchange thoughts, a sort of primitive mechanical telepathy.


• The West, this Bloomberg View article suggests, would be much better suited trying to join China in investing in Africa than in complaining about this Chinese investment. I agree.


• I approve entirely of the Robert Forward-inspired proposal to holographically encode data on interstellar probes launched via laser-launched light sails, as described at VICE's Motherboard here.