💡 Optimist’s Edge
💡 Optimist’s Edge: Plant breeding in no time with the gene scissors CRISPR
📉 What people thinkWould you be open to eating fruits and vegetables edited with the CRISPR gene scissors? 74 percent say no, and just 26 percent say yes.📈 Here are the factsThe gene scissors Crispr (CRISPR Cas-9) was created in 2012 and brought with...
💡 Optimist’s Edge: Flying cars from science fiction to science fact
Flying cars are one of the science fiction classics but also a symbol of how the future has proved to be very different from the imagination. So much so that the question "Where's my flying car?" has become emblematic of the wider failure of many modern...
💡 Optimist’s Edge: Connecting your brain to the computer
New technology aims to make a computer, or any electronic device, communicate with the human brain: this is the Brain-Computer-Interface, BCI. Its applications can be disruptive in healthcare, for example for functional restoration in patients with neurologic...
💡 Optimist’s Edge: Let AI find the talents for you
📉 What people thinkWhen asked if AI, artificial intelligence, is better than a human recruiter, the vast majority answer no. 66% do not believe that machines are better than humans at recruiting. 17% believe that AI and a human recruiter do equally well. 16%...
