X Prizes to Long Now

The Wirefly X Prize Cup wrapped up this weekend in New Mexico. Take a look at the amazing things our inventive entrepreneurs and students are doing. The Space Elevator contest did not have a monetary winner this year - Rumor is we can expect VA Tech to be a strong competitor next year.

For a different perspective, see The Long Bets Foundation started in 02001 in California. It is a partial spin-off from The Long Now Foundation, which is building a 10,000-year Clock (see sketch, below)and tools for a 10,000-year Library. Long Bets is one of the Library tools.

Their Current Predictions are intriguing:

Gregory W. Webster predicts: That by 2020 a wearable device will be available that will use voice recognition capability and high-volume storage to monitor and index conversations you have or conversations which occur in your vicinity for later searching as supplemental memory.

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