Europe set 2030 as a date to dismantle its reliance on US financial infrastructure like Visa/Mastercard payments; it's happening far quicker.
https://futurology.today/post/9520642
Europe set 2030 as a date to dismantle its reliance on US financial infrastructure like Visa/Mastercard payments; it's happening far quicker. - Futurology Today
Now that the US sees the EU as a potential enemy, Europe has moved to ensure its
financial system can never be sanctioned or shut down; something the US has done
to Russia, Cuba, and Iran. By late 2025, efforts centered on the Digital Euro
[https://www.techcentral.ie/european-lawmakers-reach-breakthrough-on-digital-euro/],
a nonprofit payment system run by the European Central Bank (like euro cash).
Due by 2030, it would offer lower fees and quickly replace much Visa and
Mastercard usage. While still in development, other solutions arrived sooner.
Instant bank-to-bank payments, bypassing cards, are expanding rapidly. In
February, 130 million users across 13 national systems were linked in a
Europe-wide network aiming to cover all of Europe. Fees are a fraction of
Visa/Mastercard, though unlike the Digital Euro, it’s not yet available as a
debit card; only online and on phones. The EU also wants to decouple from US
software and is preparing its own alternative to Microsoft Office. Europe Is
Breaking Up With Visa and Mastercard — and It’s a $24 Trillion Problem
[https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/]
Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty
[https://tech.eu/2026/03/27/europe-builds-microsoft-compatible-euro-office-to-reclaim-digital-sovereignty/]
China’s solar/wind power generation now exceeds all U.S. household and industrial electricity consumption, and this cheap electricity is directly facilitating its global industrial dominance.
https://futurology.today/post/9495577
China’s solar/wind power generation now exceeds all U.S. household and industrial electricity consumption, and this cheap electricity is directly facilitating its global industrial dominance. - Futurology Today
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Google just set a 2029 deadline to migrate to quantum-safe encryption, years ahead of government targets, citing the risk that encrypted data is already being collected for future decryption.
https://futurology.today/post/9493447
Google just set a 2029 deadline to migrate to quantum-safe encryption, years ahead of government targets, citing the risk that encrypted data is already being collected for future decryption. - Futurology Today
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Often we seek to "cheat" relativity, but if we instead follow time dilation to its logical conclusion, the picture is unexpectedly...divine?
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2026/04/01/by-the-light-of-genesis/
This post's featured image is Witold Pruszkowski's "Falling Star".
#relativity #science #physics #spaceflight #worldbuilding #sciencefiction #scifi #timedilation #technology #futurism #futurology #future
A warmer climate means bigger hail - Futurology Today
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$2.3 billion funded Cursor, admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Open-Source Kimi.
https://futurology.today/post/9459017
$2.3 billion funded Cursor, admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Open-Source Kimi. - Futurology Today
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A blueprint for Chinese global leadership: With the US destroying its own credibility, the opportunity is Beijing’s for the taking
https://futurology.today/post/9445007
A blueprint for Chinese global leadership: With the US destroying its own credibility, the opportunity is Beijing’s for the taking - Futurology Today
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Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones: The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body.
https://futurology.today/post/9443090
Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones: The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body. - Futurology Today
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Despite Ukraine demonstrating that cheap drones are the future of warfare, 2026's wars show some people still haven't got the message.
https://futurology.today/post/9426362
Despite Ukraine demonstrating that cheap drones are the future of warfare, 2026's wars show some people still haven't got the message. - Futurology Today
"The Russians had lost an estimated 3,000 tanks in the previous year, along with
9,000 armored vehicles, 13,000 artillery systems, and more than 400 air-defense
systems, Cavoli said in written testimony. The main weapon that the Ukrainians
had used to inflict this damage was the suicide drone, which costs about $400 to
make……………….“It’s Ukrainian housewives,” Papperger (CEO Rheinmetall, Germany’s
biggest arms manufacturer) said of their factories. “They have 3-D printers in
the kitchen, and they produce parts for drones,” he said. “This is not
innovation.” Mr. Papperger needs to look up the meaning of the word
‘innovation’. Upending the decades-long paradigm of tank warfare, with
decentralized, cheap production that people can do from home with 3D printers,
is about as innovative as innovation gets. But when your job depends on selling
tanks ……. Also, the specifics here mask a broader 21st-century trend.
Decentralization. What used to be “heavy industry” and “national energy grids”
can more and more be done by home solar energy and 3-D printers. Building Tanks
While the Ukrainians Master Drones: Ukrainian drones have made artillery and
armored vehicles look obsolete. Why is the world still buying them?
[https://archive.ph/cM9kn]
China Is Rapidly Overtaking the United States as the World’s Scientific Superpower
https://futurology.today/post/9424604
China Is Rapidly Overtaking the United States as the World’s Scientific Superpower - Futurology Today
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