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• They Call It ‘Longevity Escape Velocity’

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 486
  Ray Kurzweil: We are very close to the tipping point in human longevity … we are about fifteen years away from adding more than one year of longevity per year to remaining life expectancy.
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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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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, 2007
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• 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 ...
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• Looking Far, Far Ahead

  
  Up and Running — Authority: 418
  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 ...
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• 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.
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• The medibots are coming

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 437
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Wolfram Alpha developing elements of AI?

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 437
  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 ...
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• Not About The Buildings Prize Reading Tomorrow

  
  Providence Daily Dose — Authority: 439
  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 ...
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• Computing rivaling human brain by 2019?

  
  PaulSpoerry.com — Authority: 402
  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 ...
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• Pictures in Our Heads

  
  I, Cringely — Authority: 560
  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 ...
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• Meet the latest supercomputing champ — Jaguar Cray

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 437
  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 ...
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• Ambient Synth Jam

  
  Synthtopia — Authority: 555
  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 ...
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• An Introduction to the Future

  
  Brent Kearney — Authority: 100
  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 ...
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• Haptic Ring Lets You Feel Virtual Objects

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 138
  Hat tip to Singularity Hub
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• Ray Kurzweil In 1965 With His Music-Composing Computer

  
  Synthtopia — Authority: 555
  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.
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• Immerse In The Future expo coming to LA and Second Life

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 437
  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 ...
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