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Video Compression and Sustainability. AI-Generated.
In this era of fast digital development, video content has emerged as the main medium of communication and entertainment. From high-definition movies to real-time video conferencing, the demand for video streaming is increasing tremendously. However, this growing hunger for video material has a tremendous environmental cost. Data centers, which store, process, and transport video material, are among the most energy-intensive sectors of the digital economy. This enormous energy usage generates significant carbon emissions, prompting questions about the IT industry's sustainability.
By Ade Bastianabout a year ago in Futurism
Quarter Century. Top Story - January 2025.
Twenty-five years… It just seems to be a small blip in time once you’ve reached my age. Young people always think that as soon as they hit a certain number that the party’s over. Well, that ain’t true. Not at all. Not a chance.
By Kendall Defoe about a year ago in Futurism
The Spark of Tomorrow
The world had changed by 2050 in ways that would stagger you. Cities able to float upon the oceans, generations powered by renewables derived from sun and sea. Vertical farms that would cover the buildings of old, that produce their own vitamins and are inlaid with blooms, green and gold, not glass and steel. They were better than humans in every way, but they were made of metal, their souls buried in circuitry.
By J Pavan Kumarabout a year ago in Futurism
I Built My First Robot. Runner-Up in Future Fragments Challenge.
I built my first robot in the basement of Pteetneet Academy when I was seven years old. I had been jealous of the other boys in my class being excused on Grandparent’s Day. I didn’t have any living grandparents and had to stay in a stale classroom learning geometry while they went to the Golden Onion Retirement Center for bingo and strawberry cake.
By Amos Gladeabout a year ago in Futurism
The Witness
“Forever is just another word for boring.” The sun never sets here. Not in the Oasis. Not in the perfect little bubble we built to stave off the apocalypse like some billionaire with too much ambition and not enough sense. The skies are frozen in the magic of 2050’s summer glow—where every shadow stretches just enough to be mysterious but never oppressive, and the air carries a breeze soft enough to feel like a lover’s sigh.
By Iris Obscuraabout a year ago in Futurism
A Tapestry of Tomorrow
--- In 2050, the world hummed with an energy unlike anything the past could have imagined. Skyscrapers woven with living algae lit up the night sky with bioluminescent threads, absorbing carbon by day and exhaling oxygen by night. Humanity had not only survived the challenges of climate change, resource scarcity, and technological disruption—it had thrived. But the most unexpected evolution lay not in the gleaming cities or Martian colonies, but in the hearts and minds of people who had learned to live differently.
By Autumninspaceabout a year ago in Futurism
A Silent Tomorrow
It’s the year 2075, and silence is all I’ve known for years. My ears stopped hearing long ago, a side effect of an implant that was supposed to improve my health but failed miserably. Now, all I have is the quiet and the dim glow of the city outside my window.
By Anthony Scottabout a year ago in Futurism
