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Volvo Car outlines technological future: new Scalable Platform Architecture and focus on four-cylinder engines; Concept You

Green Car Congress

The electrical architecture will enable all future multimedia and connectivity solutions, and forms the backbone of the Volvo Car Corporation’s drive to reinforce its leading position in active safety. Modularity and compact transverse design are also ideal for future electrification developments. Click to enlarge.

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Taking the Long Way Home From Alaska

Baua Electric

national park, and then joined the Alaska Highway at Tok , a small town about 90 miles from the Canadian border that plays a large role in servicing sparsely populated eastern Alaska with its grocery stores, gas stations and restaurants. Dreaming up a future getaway or just armchair traveling? Check out our 52 Places to Go in 2024.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. This is perhaps ironic, since one vision of the office of the future was that it would be paperless.

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