13.7 billion years ago, the universe was created. The first objects in it shone about 13 billion years ago, sending signals that Earthlings, led by scientists and engineers, intend to capture in a few years.
The formation of galaxies and stars is to be recorded by the largest, most powerful, and at the same time, most sensitive radio telescope in the world called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which nine countries (Australia, Italy, South Africa, Canada, China, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) will officially begin building in 2016.
This currently most exciting scientific and technological endeavor on the planet has been described for Tehnopolis by one of its main actors – Prof. Peter Quinn – astrophysicist and director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) from Perth, Australia. He explained how scientists intend to use the SKA telescope to capture the universe at the moment of the formation of the first galaxies and stars, to go back more than 12 billion years into the past, to catch traces of extraterrestrial intelligent life, and to enrich life on Earth with numerous innovations. He also revealed that all astronomers are time travelers.
The ‘space’ new issue of Tehnopolis, Lider’s monthly on innovation, science, and technology, also reveals how news from Mars, Mercury, Europa, New Earth… promises. We send greetings to those outside the golden-haired zone, and we are sending homemade satellites into orbit. Do you want to track in real-time how the ice on Earth is melting, forests are being cut down, landfills are emerging, wars are being fought, and animal species are migrating? Then invest in one of the new satellites and satisfy almost all your voyeuristic passions.
Instead of a story about the latest innovations and achievements, a letter addressed to Santa Claus has wandered into the editorial office. Since a reaction to it immediately arrived from a reliable source, we bring the letter ‘to the public servant’ and the reaction to it in full. We know that there is probably no country in the world where teachers are not underpaid. However, some completely ordinary ‘teachers’ of entrepreneurial spirit have become a little richer thanks to the lessons they offer online. We present somewhat shyly some star teachers, but we lavishly present ICT trends that will mark the year 2013. Enter with us into the era of big data!
