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Synopsis | Futurism By Flaminio Gualdoni – Video

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Synopsis | Futurism By Flaminio Gualdoni
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Saudi Arabia Festival of Science and Creativity – MAWHIBA – keynote speaker – Video

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Saudi Arabia Festival of Science and Creativity - MAWHIBA - keynote speaker
MAWHIBA festival of Science and Creativity - report by Futurist keynote speaker Patrick Dixon. Future of education, high schools and university in Saudi Arabia. Research into science. Encouraging...

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Futurist predictions about technology that actually came true

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6. Handheld technology

Beyonce takes a selfie Photo: Beyonce.com

If you thought the art of taking a perfect selfie was only practiced by the Instagram generation, think again.

Here are a few examples of when art inadvertently predicted the future.

5. Big Brother

George Orwell's 1984 Photo: Penguin/AP

OK, so the selfie may not have been predicted in ancient times, but George Orwell knew exactly what was going on back in 1949.

Big Brother is watching you, wrote the India-born author in his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four.

His vision of a surveillance society in which governments monitor and keep tabs on what we are doing is a reality today.

Big Brother on the big screen

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Hubble Telescope Could Operate Through 2020, Scientists Say

Posted: February 4, 2015 at 8:51 pm

Scientists working with the long-lived Hubble Space Telescope say that the intrepid eye on the sky could continue functioning through 2020, and even beyond.

Hubble is currently in good shape. The instruments repaired during the last Hubble servicing mission in 2009 have operated longer since the repairs than they did with the original hardware, Kenneth Sembach of the Space Telescope Science Institute said during a news conference in January at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Many of the other systems on Hubble are functioning well, even with the telescope reaching its 25th year in space in 2015. NASA did a study in 2013 evaluating Hubble's engineering and subsystems that ultimately showed a good likelihood that the telescope would continue functioning at least until 2020, Sembach said. [See amazing images taken by Hubble]

Operating the telescope through 2020 is an important goal for NASA. Hubble's successor NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) should launch in 2018, creating a one-two punch of space telescope observations for at least a couple years before Hubble's mission ends.

And officials are doing all they can to be sure that the spacecraft keeps working through at least that target date.

"We're conducting what we're calling the '2020 vision' for Hubble, and that is to make sure that the observatory is ready to run for at least five or six years to get at least a year of overlap with James Webb, if not more," Sembach said. "We're lucky in that we have very proactive engineering that's been going on over the last few years and continues to go on both at the [Space Telescope Science] Institute and at [NASA's] Goddard [Space Flight Center] to make sure that we're operating the observatory as safely and as effectively as we can. So, we're going to get to 2020."

JWST and Hubble are designed to observe somewhat different cosmic spectacles. JWST will extend Hubble's reach into the early universe, allowing scientists to potentially learn more about how the earliest galaxies formed.

If the two telescopes do function simultaneously, scientists might be able to observe one target using both observatories, giving researchers a more detailed spectrum of science from the cosmic target.

"The Hubble Space Telescope mission office and the James Webb Space Telescope mission office are discussing ways that we can allow people that have excellent science ideas that require both facilities to take data of the same targets to get those data sets on both missions," Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute said during the news conference. "We're in the process of putting together policies that are going to ensure that's possible."

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NATO switching to Cold War-style security schemes: Russias envoy to NATO – Video

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NATO switching to Cold War-style security schemes: Russias envoy to NATO
Russia #39;s ambassador to the NATO has strongly criticized the military alliance for its decision to deploy its forces to six eastern European countries. Alexan...

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Blue El Dinmico(Sentimiento Urbano) || Talento Nato || 2015 – Video

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Blue El Dinmico(Sentimiento Urbano) || Talento Nato || 2015
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Ukraine Crisis Tops NATO Agenda: NATO says Russia supplies militants in east Ukraine – Video

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Ukraine Crisis Tops NATO Agenda: NATO says Russia supplies militants in east Ukraine
Ukraine tops the agenda at NATO. At the Alliance #39;s Brussels headquarters, defence ministers from member states have begun a two-day meeting where they will be discussing the situation in Ukraine...

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RUSSIA IS PREPARED FOR WW3. N.A.T.O THREATENS. – Video

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RUSSIA IS PREPARED FOR WW3. N.A.T.O THREATENS.
New Russian doctrine calls NATO a threat. While that is happening we see a lot going on as the road to a World War is becoming a reality. World War is Imminent whether you are ready or...

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LINKS Only | ANOTHER TRAIN CRASH; PLANE CRASHES; NATO NUCLEAR FEAR; PAKISTAN SHARE NUKES – Video

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NATO eyes measures to respond to military threats from Moscow

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The Yamal, a Ropucha-class landing ship of the Russian Navy, fires rockets during Navy Day celebrations in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on July 27, 2014. YURI LASHOV/AFP/Getty Images

BRUSSELS -- With NATO officials calling Russia more unpredictable now than during the Cold War, alliance defense ministers on Thursday are expected to approve further measures to enhance the organization's ability to deter and, if necessary, respond to military threats from Moscow, officials said.

Adam Thomson, Britain's permanent representative to NATO, predicted "an encouraging degree of alliance commitment" that will demonstrate "NATO is strengthening its military posture in response in particular to the challenge that Russia's behavior represents."

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As outlined by NATO officials, key decisions expected at the Brussels gathering of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and counterparts from the other 27 NATO member countries include:

- Upgrading the existing NATO Response Force to make it bigger, more capable and more quickly deployable. Now 40,000-strong, it has been sent into action just once - for earthquake relief 10 years ago in Pakistan - and has been deemed unfit for NATO's current needs.

- Firm commitments from some of NATO's European members to act as "framework" nations for the new and fastest-moving element of the Response Force, commonly known as "the spearhead," which officials now say will include around 5,000 land-based troops.

- An official go-ahead for a proposal to establish small NATO command and control facilities in the three Baltic republics - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - and Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, to improve coordination and planning, and in case of need, help smooth the way for fast deployment of the spearhead unit and follow-on NATO reinforcements.

-Expansion of a multinational headquarters in Poland that is designed to play a key role in the defense of NATO territory in northeastern Europe.

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