I’ve been thinking lately about the messages that bombard us on a daily basis. Information overload causes me to block out most of these messages. Part of it is that I don’t want to be controlled.
I was walking around Whole Foods yesterday and the scent of delicious food from the deli held a sort of power over me for a moment. It was necessary to rationalize the message and counteract because I immediately began wanting to go off my list and buy something ‘yummy’.
It didn’t work. I still bought something that wasn’t on my list. But not because of the delicious aroma emanating from the deli. It’s because Whole Foods has a different selection of food than my usual grocery store and I wanted to try something different. Yeah, that’s it. That must be it.
Here’s a list of articles that have recently caught my attention on the subject of life extension. I have posted them on my Blogging Life Extension website.
Because it is based on the established iOS mobile operating system — and because it is relatively cheap and increases productivity — the iPad has found uncharacteristically quick approval from many information-technology managers at U.S. corporations…
Click here for the complete report from AppleInsider.
It’s day one at Singularity Summit 2010 being held at the Hyatt Regency in foggy San Francisco. Gregory Stock, best-selling author – Redesigning Humans: Choosing our genes, changing our future a transhumanist classic – and biotech entrepreneur, took the stage this morning to offer his take on the coming singularity…
And thank you Frank for bringing us into the new century with Facebook sharing buttons. I’ve extended the effort and created a Blogging the Singularity Facebook Page. You can find it and become a fan HERE.
We also have a Facebook box on the site. Also within the next month you guys can look forward to a big update to the site. Hopefully everything goes well with that.
To those of you that know I’m trying to make a documentary about the Singularity it is still on. I am finishing my undergrad film studies this year and am applying to graduate school this fall. Hopefully I can get into one of the big film schools and if I do then I will make ‘We Are the Singularity’ then. I am still collecting the funds I need to get to a Singularity Summit or Humanity+ event to get the necessary interviews done. If you’d like to help this poor but extremely talented student filmmaker make his masterpiece please please please donate to the cause at wearethesingularity.com
Thank you all for your devoted readership. We look forward to…Journaling our Ascent Toward the Technological Singularity, Transhumanism, and the Cybernetic Beyond…until…well, forever.
The so-called superbug gene has so far been identified in 37 people who returned to Great Britain after undergoing surgery in India or Pakistan, researchers said.
British researchers reported that the new gene, called NDM-1, can be easily be transferred into common bacteria such as E. Coli, according to the article. The gene alters bacteria, making them resistant to nearly all known antibiotics.
“Most of modern medicine is based on the notion that antibiotics will work. If you no longer knew antibiotics worked, you couldn’t do as much surgery, chemotherapy, transplantation,” said Dr. Martin Blaser, chairman of the department of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center. “Antibiotics are part of the foundation of modern medical care.”
Dubbed Blue Brain, the simulation shows some strange behavior. The artificial “cells” respond to stimuli and suddenly pulse and flash in spooky unison, a pattern that isn’t programmed but emerges spontaneously.
Some of you might have noticed the facebook share button was sharing the wrong article and that problem has been fixed. Thank you for sharing our posts with your friends on Facebook. It is a great way to inform people and introduce people to the exciting changes that are happening all around us!
There are a lot of different goals, as we detailed in March, but the upshot is that DARPA wants a petaflops supercomputer, including networking, storage, and compute elements as well as cooling, to be crammed in a space a little larger than a standard server rack – 24 inches wide by 78 inches high and 40 inches deep – and consume only 57 kilowatts to power and cool the device. more>>>
The science fiction of melding man and machine has played out for decades onscreen, from The Six Million Dollar Man to The Terminator.
But the bionic hybrid age may well be flickering to life – real life – in the Calgary lab where scientists who made history fusing snail brain cells to a computer microchip six years ago are poised to try the same feat with human cells.
Researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute are to announce Tuesday that they have made a key advance in connecting brain cells to a newly designed silicon chip, crafted with the National Research Council of Canada, that allows them to “hear” the conversation between living tissue and an electronic device as never before.
“It used to be like seeing two people talking at a distance. … You didn’t know what they were saying or even what language they were speaking. But now it’s like putting a microphone beside them,” said Professor Naweed Syed, head of the university’s department of cell biology and anatomy, who has led the work on the so-called neurochip. more>>>
A leading candidate for room temperature superconductors is the copper compound cuprate, but no one knew how cuprates facilitated superconductivity…until some brave souls looked inside a black hole and broke out the string theory to explain how they work.
Superconductors that can transmit massive amounts of electricity with zero resistance at room temperature are pretty much the holy grail of applied physics (with good reason), but we’re still a long way away from actually building one. Indeed, even figuring out the theoretical underpinnings of a room temperature superconductor has proven tremendously difficult, although a team of MIT physicists may have found an unlikely – and brilliant – way to learn more about how they would work. But first, a little backstory.
Currently, there are two types of superconductors. One group is the low temperature superconductors, which can only work at temperatures near absolute zero and thus require gigantically impractical amounts of coolants. The other set is the high temperature superconductors, which still have to be kept more than a hundred degrees Celsius below zero. They require slightly less impractical but still pretty damn impractical amounts of coolants (that’s a technical term). Researchers focus on the second set to see if they can boost the working temperature another hundred or so degrees. more>>>
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for more information on the iPad.
a transhumanist classic – and biotech entrepreneur, took the stage this morning to offer his take on the coming singularity…
to learn more about the new Kindle eReaders. Personally, I find my Kindle extremely useful including for text access to the Internet.
is my most recent Kindle book purchase.
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