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Genetically Enhance Humanity or Face Extinction
Blogging the Singularity —
Authority: 138
In his talk at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford., examines the nature of human beings as products of evolution, in particular their limited altruism, limited co-operative instincts and limited ability to ...3 hours ago -
Cambridge’s ProFORMA does 3D scanning with any stationary webcam
Blogging the Singularity —
Authority: 138
Via Engadget: Never mind that silly name: ProFORMA (which stands for ‘Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition’, if you must know) is some cool system that turns any ordinary webcam into a powerful 3D scanning tool. In fact, a camera is pretty much all you need for some “on-line” modeling ...2 days ago -
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Blogging the Singularity —
Authority: 138
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HD Tour of the CERN LHC
Blogging the Singularity —
Authority: 138
This is a guided tour down to the CERN LHC ATLAS in Geneva Switzerland, filmed around the 7th of February, 20072 days ago -
Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 136
There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...3 days ago -
Looking Far, Far Ahead
Up and Running —
Authority: 465
Steve Jurvetson, of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, one of the oldest and best-known venture capital firms, talks here about the Ray Kurzweil interpretation of Moore’s Law. From the intro: … which retroactively looks at the evolution of technology and the economy in terms of the numbers of possible calculations ...3 days ago -
What is the Google Chrome Operating System?
Blogging the Singularity —
Authority: 138
Here’s the Google explanation on YouTube - Click here for Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Succeed per PC World. Click here for Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Fail per PC World.5 days ago -
The medibots are coming
David Kirkpatrick —
Authority: 144
Via KurzweilAI.net — This is a concept that combines a lot of elements — excitement, concern, fear, hope and quite a bit of creepy. Medibots: The world’s smallest surgeons New Scientist Health, Nov. 20, 2009 Advances in robotics could revolutionize healthcare, pushing the limits of what surgeons can ...6 days ago -
What if…Human Tissue Could Be Used to Make Objects?
Blogging the Singularity —
Authority: 138
Bone tissue cultivated outside a patient’s body will soon be used in reconstructive surgery. As the bioscience behind this application develops, the promise of the technology provokes curiosity and speculation about alternative uses. Biojewellery explores such an alternative, providing couples with a symbol of their ...1 week ago -
Wolfram Alpha developing elements of AI?
David Kirkpatrick —
Authority: 144
Via KurzweilAI.net — This sure sounds a lot like artificial intelligence to me. Innovation: The dizzying ambition of Wolfram Alpha New Scientist Tech, Nov. 17, 2009 Stephen Wolfram wants Wolfram Alpha to generate knowledge of its own. Alpha has been exposed to more utterances than a typical child would ...1 week ago -
Not About The Buildings Prize Reading Tomorrow
Providence Daily Dose —
Authority: 486
Tomorrow night at the Providence Athenaeum, I’ll be hosting the prize reading for the Not About The Buildings Second Annual Writing Prize. In a crazy turn of events that seriously had nothing whatsoever to do with me, the prize was awarded (by an outside judge who blind-read the entries and lives halfway across ...1 week ago -
Computing rivaling human brain by 2019?
PaulSpoerry.com —
Authority: 451
Ray Kurzweil has already thrown down the gauntlet and predicted that around 2020 a computer would pass the Turing Test and become the first “real” AI (artificial intelligence). It appears that once again he may be on track with his predictions. According to IBM, ‘BlueMatter, a new algorithm created by IBM ...1 week ago -
Pictures in Our Heads
I, Cringely —
Authority: 555
We’re in the middle of a huge platform shift in computing and most of us don’t even know it. The transition is from desktop to mobile and is as real as earlier transitions from mainframes to minicomputers to personal computers to networked computers with graphical interfaces. And like those previous ...1 week ago -
Meet the latest supercomputing champ — Jaguar Cray
David Kirkpatrick —
Authority: 144
Via KurzweilAI.net — Over one petaflop per second! Cray’s Jaquar now world’s fastest supercomputer KurzweilAI.net, Nov. 15, 2009 The Jaguar Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has become the world’s most powerful supercomputer , at 1.75 petaflops per second, edging out the IBM ...1 week ago -
Ambient Synth Jam
Synthtopia —
Authority: 556
Click here to view the embedded video. Sunday Synth Jam : Skoulaman created this live Berlin School/space music/ambient synthesizer jam. Details via skoulaman : Sequenced with an arpeggiator loop from the Kurzweil Midiboard connected with the Kawai k1r and the Waldorf micro Q. The solo vibe sounds are from a ...1 week ago -
An Introduction to the Future
Brent Kearney —
Authority: 93
Throughout the summer of 2009, FastForward Radio did a special series that they called A World Transformed, which provided an overview of the emerging technologies that are poised to radically transform our societies and ourselves in ways that are hardly imaginable. Although the audio sometimes sounds like they’re ...1 week ago -
Haptic Ring Lets You Feel Virtual Objects
Blogging the Singularity —
Authority: 138
Hat tip to Singularity Hub1 week ago -
Ray Kurzweil In 1965 With His Music-Composing Computer
Synthtopia —
Authority: 556
Click here to view the embedded video. Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I’ve Got a Secret in 1965, when he was 17 years old, demonstrating his music-composing computer.1 week ago -
Immerse In The Future expo coming to LA and Second Life
David Kirkpatrick —
Authority: 144
Via KurzweilAI.net — I’ll just let this speak for itself … IMMERSE IN THE FUTURE KurzweilAI.net, Nov. 13, 2009 The latest in immersive media , 3D domes, neurofeedback art , virtual worlds and other cutting-edge media formats and their potential as tools for transformation will be explored at ...1 week ago -
Biodegradable organic transistors
David Kirkpatrick —
Authority: 144
Via KurzweilAI.net — This may prove to be a major medical breakthrough once some practical applications get into actual practice and spur on additional innovation. Biodegradable Transistors Technology Review, Nov. 13, 2009 Fully biodegradable organic transistor s have been fabricated by research ers at ...1 week ago

