The new computers will be designed to directly read the words thought by the user…

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OVER the past half-century, our efforts to create machines in our own image have been stymied by three things: life, consciousness and intelligence.

We may labour under the comforting illusion that we understand these concepts. In reality, no one can agree on precisely what they mean.

It is no surprise, then, that the “top down” approach to creating artificial intelligence, life and consciousness has failed. If we can’t define what intelligence really is, attempts at AI are doomed. Ditto the rest.

But there is an alternative - evolving digital life from the “bottom up”. At long last, this approach seems to be living up to its extraordinary potential.

As we report this week (see “The genesis machine”), digital evolution has advanced in leaps and bounds since the idea first inspired computing pioneers, such as John von Neumann in the 1940s and then John Holland, the father of genetic algorithms. more>>>

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Stephen Hawking’s Warning -

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Consumers have been steadily dropping their landline phones in favor of wireless options for quite some time now, and it appears that they are now starting to cut the cord when it comes to Internet use as well…

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“The QB is an extension of you,” Bob Christopher, chief operating officer of Anybots told Wired.com. “It removes the barriers between people and work so people can teleport themselves to the office space”…

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We should open our minds to the limitless, mind-boggling possibilities…

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Tech god Ray Kurzweil is a modern-day Edison. Now he’s battling to stay alive — forever…

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Everything from televisions to smartphones and robots will obey consumers’ thoughts…

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Michio Kaku is the co-founder of String Field Theory and is the author of international best-selling books such as Hyperspace, Visions, and Beyond Einstein. Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.

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The day is fast approaching when genetic engineering and computational implants will allow humans to become something more than human – to become transhuman…

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Think it’s possible to shoot down a swarm of buzzing mosquitoes in mid-air? Or maybe you want to power up a remote flying vehicle? Tom Nugent is your man. The Seattle-area entrepreneur just might be the most versatile guy with a laser you’ve ever met…

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DISCOVERY CHANNEL ANNOUNCES DEVELOPMENT DEAL WITH STEVEN SPIELBERG, DREAMWORKS TELEVISION AND DREAMWORKS ANIMATION…

Future Earth aims to be an epic mini-series examining what life on Earth will be like in 25, 50 and 100 years. The mini-series will draw from a vast number of sources, including the leading futurists, scholars and great minds of today, to dramatize and explore how various facets of our daily lives - health and medicine, technology, the environment, the military, the economy and media - will evolve over the next century…

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I knew cars would get it first. I’m waiting for contact lens that allow us to ‘click’ on objects in the real world. This also advances my thought that we are cyborgs when driving a vehicle.

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Humanity+ UK 2010, a one-day conference in London on 24 April 2010, gathers together some of the leading thinkers to discuss these and many other topics.

Here’s a link to the Humanity+ UK 2010 website. It’s interesting to see their agenda, speakers, etc…

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For anyone wishing to attend, registration information is available on the site.

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