The SingularityU South Africa Summit seeks to explore how technology could help the African continent to meet future challenges. In physics a singularity is the place where the rules as we know them break down. Nothing of the other side can be known.
Man’s desire to explore space has created plot lines for science fiction writers for centuries. 50 years ago, the stuff of science fiction started becoming reality with the advances in technology that allowed us to land on the moon. Today, the colonisation of Mars is not only looking like it will become a reality, it’s actively being pursued by some of the brightest minds on Earth.
SAP Africa has appointed Dr. Adriana Marais to take on the role as Head of Innovation where she is expected to lead the IoT Lab, the Co-Innovation Lab initiatives, as well as other innovation streams for SAP while taking the company’s Digital Platform solutions to market.
SAP Africa has appointed Dr. Adriana Marais to take on the role as Head of Innovation. Based at the head office in Johannesburg, Dr. Marais will lead the IoT Lab, the Co-Innovation Lab initiatives, as well as other innovation streams for SAP while taking the company’s Digital Platform solutions to market.
It is 2031 and the next space race has started with the launch of the largest-ever interplanetary space rocket and spaceship carrying four carefully selected astronauts on a mission to establish a human settlement on Mars – a planet that is about 225-million kilometres away.
Heading for the fourth rock from the sun, these first Martian astronauts will never return to earth: the Mars One mission is a one-way trip with no option of returning.
Johannesburg – Earth is the only home we have ever known… for now.This pale blue dot in a sea of vast space is perfectly suited to life, but if Nasa and private companies like Mars One can get it right, our next home will be the fourth rock from the sun – Mars. “It will be difficult to survive,” theoretical physicist and one of the 100 candidates for a one-way mission to Mars, Adriana Marais, told a packed auditorium at the Sci-Bono centre in Johannesburg on Tuesday night.