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  • Genetically Enhance Humanity or Face Extinction


    Blogging the SingularityAuthority 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 SingularityAuthority 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 SingularityAuthority Authority: 138
    2 days ago
  • HD Tour of the CERN LHC


    Blogging the SingularityAuthority Authority: 138
    This is a guided tour down to the CERN LHC ATLAS in Geneva Switzerland, filmed around the 7th of February, 2007
    2 days ago
  • Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?


    Ohaiyo Business MagazineAuthority 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 RunningAuthority 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 SingularityAuthority 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 KirkpatrickAuthority 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 SingularityAuthority 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 KirkpatrickAuthority 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 DoseAuthority 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.comAuthority 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, CringelyAuthority 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 KirkpatrickAuthority 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


    SynthtopiaAuthority 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 KearneyAuthority 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 SingularityAuthority Authority: 138
    Hat tip to Singularity Hub
    1 week ago
  • Ray Kurzweil In 1965 With His Music-Composing Computer


    SynthtopiaAuthority 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 KirkpatrickAuthority 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 KirkpatrickAuthority 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

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