Future

1 million years into the future

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EPA Expected to Issue Million-Year-Long Regulation
November 24, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6525491

In the coming weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to issue a regulation that will extend 1 million years into the future.

The timescale of the regulation, which deals with the disposal of power plant nuclear waste, is unprecedented territory for the EPA.

Fortune-Tellers, Step Aside

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Fortune-Tellers, Step Aside: Big Data Looks For Future Entrepreneurs
October 5, 2014
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/10/05/351851015/fortune-tellers-step-aside-big-data-looks-for-future-entrepreneurs

one firm is taking things one step further (or, actually, backward) by using an algorithm to try to find entrepreneurs before they even start a company.

Roy Bahat leads the venture capital firm Bloomberg Beta, which launched in June of last year.

we’ll see an even greater use of predictive analytics soon. “I am a believer that the things that we see in science fiction will eventually come to pass,” he says — think Minority Report and Gattaca.

Hyperloop

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Tech Company Hyperloop Doesn’t Pay Its Employees — At Least Not In Cash
October 15, 2015
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/15/448980996/tech-company-hyperloop-doesnt-pay-its-employees-at-least-not-in-cash

… another area of innovation in Silicon Valley is how we work, mainly the structure of our offices and companies. Hyperloop is a company that has no employees, doesn’t pay any salaries, but has hundreds of extremely talented workers nonetheless.