Surface Science Will Become Ubiquitous

Will Economics Become an Experimental Science?

How Books Will Become Machines

We shape our tools and they shape us in return. Trapped in an invisible technological loop, we underestimate the pervasive impact of the tools we use, ignorant of the fact that each technological transition can change the way we act, feel or think. Worse, our understanding of technological evolutionary dynamics is still in its infancy. We are missing the equivalent of a Darwinian Theory of Evol...

Will AI in pigs become more efficient?

AI is commercially applied worldwide to breed pigs, yielding fertility outcomes similar to those of natural mating. However, it is not fully efficient, as only liquid-stored semen is used, with a single boar inseminating about 2000 sows yearly. The use of liquid semen, moreover, constrains international trade and slows genetic improvement. Research efforts, reviewed hereby, are underway to reve...

What will become of Homo sapiens?

Model Repositories: Will They Become Reality?

Over the last years, several repositories have been proposed in response to the need of the MDE community for advanced systems supporting the reuse of modeling artifacts, and the adoption of model management tools as software-as-service. Even though the potential benefits of MDE repositories are valuable, researchers and practitioners seem to prefer the management of their modeling artifacts lo...