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Teilhard de Chardin and Transhumanism
Eric Steinhart writes in the Journal of Evolution and Technology on French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, among the first to give serious consideration to the future of human evolution. His work advocates both biotechnologies (e.g., genetic engineering) and intelligence technologies, and discusses the emergence of a global computation-communication system (said by some to have envisioned the Internet).
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2009-01-06  1 comment   
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Exponential Growth Versus Existential Risks
There’s a business cliche that managers are trained to say, usually right before they cut your salary or move your unit into a basement cubicle farm, they say: “Embrace change.”

In our recent election we talked a lot about change and the resulting change will be overwhelmingly positive. Change is coming. Change we can believe in. America is changing. Ch-Ch-Changes.

There is no doubt that we–as in, humanity, in general–are going to face major changes.
2 votes  by matts  on 2009-01-06  0 comments   
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First Singularity Summit videos now online
Seven videos from the 2008 Singularity Summit are now online at the SIAI website. Speakers include Vernor Vinge, Esther Dyson, Justin Rattner, and Marshall Brain.
4 votes  by jeriaska  on 2009-01-03  2 comments   
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All the Global Catastrophic Risks Talks Online
Videos and mp3s of all talks from the November Global Catastrophic Risks conference in Mountain View organized by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies together with the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology are now online. The conference theme was building a resilient civilization.
1 votes  by jeriaska  on 2009-01-05  0 comments   
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Beloved Pets Everlasting?
New York Times article on Mira and MissyToo, two dogs whose embryos were created from the preserved, recycled and repurposed nuclear DNA of the original Missy, a border collie-husky mix who died in 2002. A Bay Area biotech company, BioArts, made the arrangements with a laboratory in South Korea, that performed the actual cloning.
3 votes  by jeriaska  on 2009-01-01  0 comments   
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Edge.org answers overwhelmingly transhumanist
The answers to Edge.org's annual Big Question have been posted and this year's crop has a decidedly transhumanist flavor. In answering the question, "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?," a number of leading thinkers have converged around the idea that biotechnology will yield some of the most profound changes to the human condition later this century.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2009-01-02  0 comments   
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Whole Genome Sequencing To Cost Only $1,000 By End Of 2009
Singularity Hub predicts the cost to sequence an entire individual human genome will plummet to an astonishing $1,000 by the end of 2009 and the time required for sequencing will require less than one week.
2 votes  by kkleiner  on 2009-01-02  0 comments   
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[Humor] Roomba Violates All Three Laws Of Roombotics
The first law states that the device "must not suck up jewelry or other valuables, or through inaction, allow valuables to be sucked up." The second law prescribes that Roomba "must obey vacuuming orders given to it by humans except when such orders would conflict with the first law." The third and final law authorizes a Roomba to "protect its own ability to suction dust and debris as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law."
3 votes  by wal  on 2008-12-29  1 comment   
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If The Brain Is A Computer, Is The Mind A Quantum Computer?
There are neuroanatomists who believe that the brain behaves as a parallel processor (right hemisphere) and a serial processor (left hemisphere).
I’d like to take this analogy one step further: if the brain is a computer, could the MIND be a quantum computer?
2 votes  by matts  on 2008-12-23  3 comments   
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Future Extreme
New technologies are entering the world scene, challenging us and creating an environment for restructuring of society. Future Extreme is an online magazine dedicated to observe and discuss the implications.
2 votes  by transfuture  on 2008-12-27  1 comment   
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The Scientist: The Longevity Dividend
The experience of aging is about to change, writes Jay Olshansky et al. Humans are approaching old age in unprecedented numbers, and this generation and all that follow have the potential to live longer, healthier lives than any in history.
2 votes  by jeriaska  on 2008-12-30  0 comments   
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Accelerating Technology for Human Sight
Scientists have taken the first steps to creating bionic eyes.
3 votes  by georgeu2000  on 2008-12-27  0 comments   
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Accelerating Technology of Flight: From the Wright Brothers to the Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle represents our current level of technology in flight. With the internet, we can see what is happening in real time.
3 votes  by georgeu2000  on 2008-12-27  0 comments   
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How Technology Is Re-Writing The Writing Industry II
New technology is shaking up the publishing business. In this post, we look at a book-making machine that's about the size of an older office copier. It may one day pave the way for the availability of book-making vending machines.
2 votes  by matts  on 2008-12-30  0 comments   
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Weather Machine: Nano-enabled Climate Control
J. Storrs Hall is the author of Nanofuture: What’s Next for Nanotechnology, a book covering the physical principles of engineering at the atomic scale. At November’s Global Catastrophic Risks conference he gave a presentation entitled “The Weather Machine” on the potential for nano-enabled “Climate Control for the Earth.”
4 votes  by jeriaska  on 2008-12-20  1 comment   
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Top 10 Computing Trends for 2009
Top computing and communications predictions for 2009 from a futurist perspective. Picks range from smartphones to supercomputers, along with other advances that could be around the corner.
4 votes  by jeriaska  on 2008-12-21  0 comments   
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Are Computers Smart Enough to Trade in the Stock Market?
Computers are getting smarter and smarter. But is it possible for them to get smart enough to make money trading the markets?
2 votes  by georgeu2000  on 2008-12-28  0 comments   
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The Minority Viewpoint of AGI
In contrast, when I discuss my theories with competent people from other fields, such as Biology, they will nod their heads vigorously and say, “Of course, all along I’ve been thinking it has to be something like this”. This is also true for many people without any science education, since these theories are quite congruent with naive ideas of how the mind works.
3 votes  by arcange1m  on 2008-12-24  0 comments   
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The End of the Business Cycle
Singularity technologies--if we manage them correctly--have the capability of changing how the business cycle is perceived and its ramifications.
4 votes  by matts  on 2008-12-19  0 comments   
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Top Ten Singularity Predictions for 2009 (Humor... Hopefully)
The year 2008 has been a thrilling year in Science and an amazing year in Singularity advances, specifically.

Here’s a list of the top ten possible developments in 2009 that will take us closer to the Singularity, the point at which humor will be distributed throughout the universe and our sense of humor will become so refined that everything will be funny.
1 votes  by matts  on 2008-12-31  0 comments   
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