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Facebook has rebranded and will be called Meta. Its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced this at a presentation on Thursday, October 28th. At the same time, the social network Facebook will retain its current name.

Other applications of the company – Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp – will also be named as before. “Our brand is now so closely tied to one product that it cannot reflect everything we do today, let alone the future. I hope that over time we will be seen as a metaverse company, and I want to connect our work and identity. for this purpose, “- said Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg creates immersive virtual reality universe

In addition to social media, Mark Zuckerberg also owns the virtual reality device manufacturer Oculus. In September, Facebook already committed $ 50 million to build the metaverse. The company is currently testing a virtual reality app for remote work that will allow users to attend meetings as their avatars using a dedicated headset.

“The defining quality of the metaverse will be the sense of presence – as if you are next to another person or elsewhere. Feeling the presence of another person is the highest dream of social technology,” added the founder of the company.

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Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

Explosive ordnance disposal robot

The Telemax Pro robot, the brainchild of the German company Telerob, a world leader in the production of unmanned ground vehicles, is used to neutralize explosives. A model of this versatile robot, capable of overcoming significant slopes and obstacles, is presented in the exposition of the Museum of the Future (Zukunftsmuseum), which opened in September in Bavarian Nuremberg.

Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

Spacecraft “Foton-1”

The Soviet spacecraft Foton-1 was used for technological and scientific research. In 1985, he made a twelve-day unmanned flight into space. It is based on the design of artificial earth satellites of the Zenith series.

Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

Quantum computer

Quantum computers are capable of surpassing even the supercomputers used by IT giants or, for example, space agencies like NASA, in speed and volume of computation. The picture shows a demonstration model of a quantum computer at a 1: 1 scale manufactured in 2020 in a showcase at the Museum of the Future.

Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

Rail zeppelin

At one time, such a vehicle was akin to fantasy. The photo shows a small copy of a rail zeppelin designed and created by German aircraft engineer Franz Krukenberg in 1929. Its movement was carried out using a propeller located at the back. Only one instance was built.

Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

Vacuum train model

Hyperloóp (from English – “hyperloop”) is a vacuum train project proposed in 2013 by Elon Musk. It has not been fully implemented, but Musk’s attempts to obtain permission from the heads of many states to use these trains are still being made. The maximum speed reached during the tests is 450-460 km / h.

Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

Bionic pavilion

Leila Kijanek Eunis, a researcher at the University of Stuttgart, is exhibiting her model of the bionic pavilion “Elytra Pavilion” at a scale of 1:20. But the original was built with the help of a robot designed by Stuttgart scientists. The pavilion model, which has become an impressive example of the application of robotics in architecture, was first exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

CO2 collector

The photo shows a CO2 collector from the Swiss company Climeworks, which specializes in technologies for capturing carbon dioxide in the air. It launched the world’s first commercial CO2 filtration project. The plant consists of 18 direct air capture modules, filtering 900 tons of CO2 annually, which are then sold to greenhouse operators for use as fertilizer.

Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

Genetic Engineering

For many years, scientists have tried to unravel the genome in order to rid mankind of serious hereditary diseases. Today there are new possibilities for genome editing. Now you can choose the gender of the unborn child, the color of his eyes and hair, and other qualities. However, the prospect of the birth of “designer children” raises many moral and ethical questions before society.

Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

Fusion stellarator coil

The photo shows the superconducting modular coil of the experimental Wendelstein 7-AS stellarator produced in 1990. It was developed by the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics with the aim of developing a fusion reactor to generate electricity. This was the first project of its kind.

Museum of the Future in Nuremberg and its exhibits

Robbie the robot who starred in the movies

This robot named Robbie starred in the movie “My Friend the Robot” in 2016. Its plot is as follows: the boy Tobby meets the robot Robbie and tries to help him find his parents, whom he lost in the crash of the starship. Tobby is 11 years old, but he is very familiar with science. The young inventor and his new friend create a car that can fly and float, and set off for an adventure.

Author: Natalia Koroleva