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• What is the Google Chrome Operating System?

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 135
  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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• Encryption Scheme Makes Artificial Organs Hack-Proof

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 518
  Ultrasound Encryption Scheme Makes Artificial Organs Hack-Proof PopSci | Nov 10, 2009 By Clay Dillow Securing Implantable Devices: Researchers are testing their system using an implanted device in the abdominal wall of a cow. Think about it: Would you want someone launching the equivalent of a ...
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• Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers’ Heads by 2020

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 518
  Matrix creep: Mind Trip Intel wants into your brain. (Image Warner Bros.) Researchers expect brain waves to operate computers, TVs and cell phones PopSci | Nov 20, 2009 By Jeremy Hsu If the idea of turning consumers into true cyborgs sounds creepy, don’t tell Intel researchers. Intel’s Pittsburgh lab ...
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• Toronto woman becomes first transexual Body Worlds donor

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 518
  Visitors who see Paige’s body on display will see up close the results of an extensive surgical male-to-female transition. She has had full cranial facial reconstruction and separate feminization surgeries for her nose, lips, cheeks, breasts, hips and hair line — plus full-body laser hair removal. xtra.ca | Nov ...
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• Implanted Chips - Be the first kid on your block to have one!

  
  Singularity & Futurism — Authority: 123
  ComputerWorld - 11.19.2009 (by Sharon Gaudin) Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial phones and change TV channels. By the year 2020, you wont need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than ...
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• My opinion on Animal Liberation Front and Animal Testing

  
  Perfect Argument — Authority: 154
  WATCH till the END - THEN comment! [Rational arguments guaranteed] In this video I present my thoughts on the animal rights organization ALF (Animal Liberation Front), their actions - And my position on Animal Testing..Related External LinksInvolution » QuotesPATRICK THE LAMA presents "The Eternal Now"[Exalted 2e] ...
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• My opinion on Animal Liberation Front and Animal Testing

  
  Perfect Argument — Authority: 154
  WATCH till the END - THEN comment! [Rational arguments guaranteed] In this video I present my thoughts on the animal rights organization ALF (Animal Liberation Front), their actions - And my position on Animal Testing..Related External LinksInvolution » QuotesPATRICK THE LAMA presents "The Eternal Now"[Exalted 2e] ...
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• IBM brain simulations reach cat equivalency

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 604
  You can’t so much as turn sideways without stumbling over this story, especially in the transhumanist and Singularitarian neighbourhoods of the web, and with good reason. So let’s just cut straight to the meat of it: Scientists, at IBM Research – Almaden, in collaboration with colleagues from Lawrence ...
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• telepathic teaching practices under fire [BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ]

  
  hypoetics — Authority: 116
  in the sunny terrain of terrohran a stolen laptop mumbles something from its tinny little speakers about dead bioweapon scientists overheating its memory modules. carrying this nuclear-powered equipment, a smarthand escapes biometric detection at the airport & flies west away from the heat . the smarthand ...
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• What if…Human Tissue Could Be Used to Make Objects?

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 135
  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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• Age of cyber warfare is ‘dawning’

  
  PID News — Authority: 144
  (BBC NEWS) Nov 17, 2009 — /SNIP/ “There are at least five countries known to be arming themselves for this kind of conflict,” said Greg Day, primary analyst for security at McAfee Europe.The UK, Germany, France, China and North Korea are known to be developing their own capabilities.The US is known to have an ...
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• Closer to figuring out consciousness

  
  Singularity & Futurism — Authority: 123
  NewScientist - 11.12.2009 by Anil Ananthaswamy A telltale signature of consciousness has been detected that takes us a step closer to disentangling the brain activity underlying conscious and unconscious brain processes. It turns out that there is a similar pattern of neural activity each time we become conscious ...
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• An Introduction to the Future

  
  Brent Kearney — Authority: 92
  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: 135
  Hat tip to Singularity Hub
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• The singularity is not near

  
  Depressed Metabolism — Authority: 100
  Singularity skeptic Mark Plus drew my attention to the following blog post. The author writes that:Chalmers’ (and other advocates of the possibility of a Singularity) argument starts off with the simple observation that machines have gained computing power at an extraordinary rate over the past several years, a ...
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• The AlloSphere

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 135
  
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• Ray Kurzweil’s Opening Speech at Singularity University’s Inaugural Executive Program

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 135
  
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• Contemplation/Signs of the Apocalypse: The Dreadful Transhumans?

  
  General Lordisimo's Apocalypse — Authority: 124
  Holy crap, this is two combined Contemplation/Signs of the Apocalypse posts now.  But it seems appropriate, so I intend on going with it. Yesterday I read a piece in The New York Times by Jack Hitt titled “ Are High-Tech Prostheses Fair? ”  The piece appeared on Randy Cohen’s “Moral of the Story” blog, a ...
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• Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 135
  
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• Autism: The astrological connection

  
  Astrological Musings — Authority: 429
  by Lynn Hayes [originally posted in January 2009]The recent death of John Travoltas son Jett has brought the discussion of autism back into the news.  It has long been rumored that Jett was autistic and John Travoltas brother Joey, founder of...
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