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Radical body design"Primo 3M+"
Primo 3M+ is a prototype future body, a conceptual design with superlongevity i...
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Primo 3M+ is a prototype future body, a conceptual design with superlongevity in mind. Primo by design is multi-functional. It is reliable, changeable, upgradeable, and complete with enhanced senses. Primo is the new designer body.
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Where Are My Medical Nanobots?
Reader Wendy asks: When will nanobots clean out my arteries? While medical mole...
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Reader Wendy asks: When will nanobots clean out my arteries? While medical molecular machines are not likely to appear in the clinic soon, there's a decent amount of research going into the development of nanoscale robotics, and not only for therapeutic use. One could easily imagine these widgets appearing in diagnostic assays and nano-scale manufacturing. Before we can hope to command tiny robots to crawl or swim to a damaged or stenotic artery to effect repairs, we first need to build tiny robots capable of crawling or swimming.
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Making Skin for Robots
Like it or not, the day is coming when we’ll live side by side with humanoids...
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Like it or not, the day is coming when we’ll live side by side with humanoids. But although most modern robots can grip objects and avoid walls, they lack a vital quality in any companion: feeling. They don’t need to get your jokes or sense that you had a bad day, but without all-over sensors that can detect things like motion and body heat, there’s nothing to tell them that, for instance, they’re stepping on the baby.
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Robotic ants building homes on Mars?
Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations r...
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Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be human in form at all, but rather swarms of tiny robots.
“Small robots that are able to work together could explore the planet. We now know there is water and dust so all they would need is some sort of glue to start building structures, such as homes for human scientists,” says Marc Szymanski, a robotics researcher at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
Szymanski is part of a team of European researchers developing tiny autonomous robots that can co-operate to perform different tasks, much like termites, ants or bees forage collaboratively for food, build nests and work together for the greater good of the colony.
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Trans-Futurists
I created a group for the Trans-Future Network.
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Trans-Future Wiki
The Wiki for the Trans-Future Network.
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Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge
The human race has come a long way in the 1.5 million years since Homo erectus ...
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The human race has come a long way in the 1.5 million years since Homo erectus rose up and walked on two feet. What will humans look like in another million years (if we're still around)? Where will we live and what will we be doing? In this collection, Broderick, an Australian writer and science fiction editor, and a dozen-plus contributors let their imaginations run wild. At times they sound like a bunch of dudes tossing around what if's, but they've come up with truly funky ideas. The concept of a Matrioshka brain crops up more than once—a gigantic system of solar-orbiting structures to trap the sun's energy. Other authors stay more down to earth. Dougal Dixon speculates on continental drift and changes in the Earth's magnetic field. Steven Harris discusses why deuterium may take the place of oil and gas as our primary energy source in a few millennia. Several chapters read more like science fiction than sound scientific speculation, and a few wander off topic, but it's all great fun.
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Technocalypse
The Technocalypse is "the convergence of technology and the apocalyptic imagina...
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The Technocalypse is "the convergence of technology and the apocalyptic imagination; it is cyberspace, nanotechnology, cryonics, futurism, the eschaton encoded in the now malleable protein chains of DNA, as well as the eventual transcendence of death." [Michael Grosso, PhD (ca. 1995)]
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended." [Vernor Vinge (1993)]
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Designer Children
A public forum (BBS) for the discussion of various Transhumanist and Futurist t...
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A public forum (BBS) for the discussion of various Transhumanist and Futurist topics including life extension, smart drugs, evolutionary psychology, AI, nanotech, biotech, mind uploading & posthumanism.
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Future incomprehensibility
When a smarter-than-human intelligence is created in a world composed of solely...
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When a smarter-than-human intelligence is created in a world composed of solely human-level intelligences, prediction of the specific nature of later events and advances (for unaugmented humans) becomes difficult because they will quickly start to be driven by /superintelligent as well as human forces. The only potential prediction one can make is that the actions of the first greater-than-human intelligence might somehow bear a relation to its initial goals. For example, we can guess that if Gandhi became the first /superintelligence, he might choose to be /altruistic, whereas if Hitler became the first superintelligence, he might choose to be authoritarian. Although there may be many things that do not change with the rise of superhuman intelligence, it's impossible for us to say beforehand what they will be. It will depend on the values of the superintelligences directing progress in this world, which would hopefully include the freedom and survival of all sentient beings
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Omega-grade superintelligence
An intelligence that has reached the ceiling of computational ability permitted...
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An intelligence that has reached the ceiling of computational ability permitted by the fundamental laws of nature, if any. It is possible that omega-grade superintelligence is the "natural" form of matter in the universe, a stable equilibrium
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Aleph
A point or state where infinite information is stored and processed. If the law...
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A point or state where infinite information is stored and processed. If the laws of physics allow an aleph state to be achieved, then subjective experience in this universe may be eternal. Mitch Porter's term (possibly inspired by J. L. Borges' story, [The Aleph], about "one of the points in space that contains all other points"). /Very speculative.
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Power
An intelligence possessing billions or trillions of times the computing power o...
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An intelligence possessing billions or trillions of times the computing power of Earth's entire current population. Although it may be physically possible to possess this level of computing power and still be less intelligent than a human, "Power" usually refers to the more "developed" state of /superintelligences and /transhumans. The word was originally coined by sci-fi author /Vernor Vinge, but the "billions of trillions of times..." part is something new, added by /transhumanists
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The Future of Intellectual Attribution: Quantifying the Massive Idea Sea Require
Intellectual attribution is far from perfect, but as we systematically quantify...
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Intellectual attribution is far from perfect, but as we systematically quantify the nature of the vast Idea Sea in which we swim, we will also create a more effective and equitable market for new innovations.
Last week a pair of Nobel Prize winning scientists conceded that much of their research had been based on an earlier study by a geneticist who now drives a shuttle for $8/hour just to keep food on the table, but of course didn’t go so far as to offer him a share of the $1.5 million prize they’d been awarded. This example clearly brings into focus the limits of our current idea attribution economy, a system that clearly isn’t encouraging a Nobel-caliber scientist to continue innovating for broader social benefit.
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Do it yourself Hybride Car
This do it yourself car drew my attention. Is the Hybrid XR-3 the car of the fu...
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This do it yourself car drew my attention. Is the Hybrid XR-3 the car of the future? It is designed by Robert Q. Riley, an author, industrial designer and a mechanical engineer with successes in a wide range of product categories (see also Robert Q. Riley Enterprises). The care will cost are $10.000 with only a diesel engine up to $25.000 for the full version with diesel engine and Li-Ion battery engine. The diesel engine wil take you 125 miles/gallon (53 km/liter) and the diesel-hybrid version 225 miles/gallon (59 km/liter). De XR-3 has a top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h).
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IBM’s scientists about the world in 2050
At a kickoff event for collaboration between IBM and the University of Southern...
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At a kickoff event for collaboration between IBM and the University of Southern California to explore the intersection of creative arts and science and technology, five IBM scientists offered their best guesses on how life would be different in 2050.
In keeping with the Hollywood theme, the moderator of the panel, Bill Pulleyblank, noted that the Mini Cooper automobile has more computing power than Apollo 13–the space capsule that “almost got Tom Hanks killed,” he said, referring to the 1995 movie of that name. Pulleybank led the development of IBM’s Blue Gene systems, which account for 4 of the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers. By 2050, he predicted, the capabilities housed in those giant supercomputers will be available in the palm of your hand.
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Venture Beat Investigates Blacklight Power
-Rowan University Prof Jansson gets supplied the Raney nickel from Blacklight P...
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-Rowan University Prof Jansson gets supplied the Raney nickel from Blacklight Power, which it in turn obtains from an industrial supplier.
-Mills said it doped with a very small amount of another common material, sodium hydroxide, in a process that others could replicate.
-Jansson has been aware of Blacklight for years, and even acted as an advisor for an energy company that ultimately made a strategic investment, but it appears to have no unethical ties, just an ongoing interest.
-Mills, for his part, says that he’d like for scientists to independently verify every step of the process, from obtaining the Raney nickel and doping it to the calorimeter tests to prove that the energy bursts really exist. The information needed to run those tests is free to the public, he says; the only thing required is a researcher willing to take the time to puzzle through the process.
-Jansson’s team is observing produce only a quick burst of intense heat. In a commercialized process, there needs to be a steady output. Mills says he has purposefully kept knowledge of how to loop the reaction within the company, so that his own researchers can remain a step ahead in their work on the 50KW reactor the company earlier announced.
-According to Mills, it’s likely that a totally independent researcher will verify the whole process within a year. Meanwhile, the company will start licensing out its energy process.
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