These Overlaps In Time Will Make You Question Your History Skills

A lot of our misconceptions of history probably come down to the way we were taught in school. Teachers don't teach the history of the world from start to finish — if they did, the indiscriminate smattering of people, locations, and events would make it incredibly difficult to keep your facts straight. Instead, they break history up into discrete chunks: the Renaissance in Europe, the colonizing of the Americas, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. That puts them in easily digestible units, but also have a tendency to keep students from putting the lessons in context with other events that happened at the same time. As a result, there are some events that you'd never guess happened at the same time — that is, if a few reddit threads are any indication. Hold on to your DeLoreans.

4K Years Ago

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built on the west bank of the Nile about 4,600 years ago in 2650 B.C.E., during a time when Egypt was among the richest, most powerful civilizations in the world. In fact, pyramids like Giza were erected for centuries, from roughly 2600 to 2300 B.C.E. Want to know what else existed during that time? Woolly mammoths. Those furry, tusked, elephant-sized creatures only died out 4,000 years ago, which gave them roughly six centuries of overlap with the Ancient Egyptians. What if the Sphinx had been built with tusks?

Future of Car Driving & Parking |

When you think about driverless cars, you probably imagine a more relaxing commute, one where you get to kick back with a book instead of navigating rush-hour traffic. You may not think about the part when you finally reach your destination—and simply get out of your car, no search for parking required. Autonomous vehicles could totally revolutionize parking, and the entire structure of cities could change as a result.
According to industry consultants McKinsey & Company, once autonomous vehicles go mainstream, the need for parking space in the United States could reduce by more than 5.7 billion square meters. That's nearly the size of Delaware. There are many reasons for this. For one thing, traditional cars are parked 95% of the time, on average. Once driverless cars are widely available, private car ownership could become the exception to the rule, with people sharing cars with friends and family or paying a subscription fee for on-demand transport. That could slash the number of cars on the road—and in parking lots. University of Texas professor Dr. Kara Kockelman told Curbed, "I think we'd lose 50 percent of parking demand. If everyone [stopped owning a car], you could get rid of 7 out of 8 cars on the road, so you'd need an eighth of the spots."

But even the driverless cars that would be around would take up less parking space than traditional cars. That's because they drop you off before they park themselves, so parking spaces don't need to leave room for the cars to open their doors.That change wouldn't just make parking lots smaller. It would open up a world of possibilities. Existing parking garages could repurpose the newly unused floors to house office and retail space, reserving parking areas for underground or upper floors where they wouldn't be seen.

So waiting for future technology to come quick in this busy world and lets handover our tech to next gen robot. And what you think about it please

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How Quantum Technology Is Making Computers Millions Of Times More Powerful |

When the first digital computer was built in the 1940s, it revolutionized the world of data calculation. When the first programming language was introduced in the 1950s, it transformed digital computers from impractical behemoths to real-world tools. And when the keyboard and mouse were added in the 1960s, it brought computers out of industry facilities and into people's homes. There's a technology that has the potential to change the world in an even bigger way than any of those breakthroughs. Welcome to the future of quantum computing.

Every computer you've ever encountered works on the principles of a Turing machine: they manipulate little particles of information, called bits, that exist as either a 0 or a 1, a system known as binary. The fundamental difference in a quantum computer is that it's not limited to those two options. Their "quantum bits," or qubits, can exist as 0, 1, or a superposition of 0 and 1—that is, both 0 and 1 and all points in between. It's only once you measure them that they "decide" on a value. That's what's so groundbreaking about quantum computing: Conventional computers can only work on one computation at a time; the fastest just have ways of making multiple components work on separate tasks simultaneously. But the magic of superposition gives quantum computers the ability to work on a million computations at once. With that kind of power, just imagine what humanity could accomplish!

But that's not all that makes quantum computing so impressive—there's also the phenomenon of entanglement. Qubits don't exist in a vacuum. Generally, systems of multiple qubits are entangled, so that they each take on the properties of the others. Take an entangled system of two qubits, for

example. Once you measure one qubit, it "chooses" one value. But because of its relationship, or correlation, to the other qubit, that value instantly tells you the value of the other qubit.

Look Up! Flying Drone Taxis Are Coming Soon |

Remember the opening sequence from The Jetsons? George Jetson is steering a bubbly hovercraft that zips around Earth's atmosphere to drop off his family members at their desired destinations. If we said there are crafts like that one being tested right now, we'd be lying. After all, the flying drone taxis aiming to hit the sky in July of 2017 don't need a driver. 

Hovercraft have been on the minds of futurists for decades. And as drones become a normal addition to our overhead space, personal modes of flying transport inch closer to reality. Well, that day of Jetsons-like travel may have just arrived. Remotely operated flying drone taxis are set to make their debut in Dubai by summer of 2017, according to Tech Crunch.

Though companies like Uber and Airbus have talked about launching drones that carry cargo before they carry actual living, breathing passengers, Dubai's Roads & Transportation Agency plans to skip right to ferrying humans. Starting in July 2017, the agency will begin its passenger service by carrying people through the air in their small drones along predetermined routes.

Say Hello To Ehang 184

Meet your chauffeur, the Ehang 184. According to Tech Crunch, this 500-lb drone "can carry one passenger with a max weight of 220 pounds, for a distance of 31 miles on one charge and at a top speed of 100 mph." Not bad for quickly jetting through the crowded urban cityscape of Dubai. But the agency is thinking about more than just helping commuters escape rush hour. As Mashable reports, in May 2016, "the company announce that it had partnered with Lung Biotechnology to ferry donated organs between hospitals. The company may buy as many as 1,000 specially designed Ehang 184 drones."