What’s wrong with the World’s pension systems today? Living longer should be perceived as a dream-come-true and as great achievement, but instead it is perceived as a “Longevity risk” and as a problem. How come the cure for cancer be perceived as a condition in need of cure? Time to reverse the course to welfare[…]
This is a cool reminder of how cool the Homo Sapience is and just consider that the dialog never mentiones the intelligence. Now really extrapolate from the badass humans to The Noo-posthumans, and you have the ultimate space conquirer.
This is a short list of great technological achievements. For some unknown reason they are mentioned in a negative context but they do not deserve such mis-judjement. Humans should sooner or later (and preferably sooner) accept they are not the best at anything in particular. And the next harsh truth is also emerging – the[…]
Hypothetical scenario 1 (Actually a featured movie fiction scenario): a group of mutated and clinically immortal beings live in communities called covens. They take turns to sleep for 100 years so that they could regenerate and rest their bodies. So they have a sort of mandate governance. One major problem – how to meaningfully transfer[…]
It is about time to abandon the stupid habit of communication by mouth (using the silly mechanics and sound waves) when our thoughts are electro-chemical in nature …. a) The Visionary – Kevin Warwick… [youtube]http://youtu.be/cx45D9aWEeY[/youtube] b) Some previous works (far from exhaustive)… Monkeys Use Brain Interface to Move and Feel Virtual Objects… […]
The glasses are hopefully first of many mass production wearable computing devices, that will make the leap to Web 3.0 and beyond. HD projector lenses to come…. [youtube]http://youtu.be/v1uyQZNg2vE[/youtube]
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/53109450[/vimeo] http://uk.news.yahoo.com/billion-euro-supercomputer-to–simulate-entire-human-brain—120811728.html “The HBP will build new platforms for “neuromorphic computing” and “neurorobotics”, allowing researchers to develop new computing systems and robots based on the architecture and circuitry of the brain,” EFPL scientists said in a statement this week. The Swiss project likened the research to the Large Hadron’s Collider’s exploration of the subatomic[…]
Aaron Swartz – the co-creator of solid web services as RSS and Reddit and notorious liberator of information – was found death this morning in his place in an apparent suicide. What has pushed one of the top 5 young web entrepreneurs and geniuses to such drastic deed, you may wonder? Well, it has to[…]
