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Dec 30, 2015
Robot Car GIF — Find & Share on GIPHY
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
This is Disney’s wall-riding robot.
Discover & Share this Robot Car GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.
Dec 30, 2015
We Must Cut the Military and Transition to a Science-Industrial Complex
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, economics, life extension, military, transhumanism
My new article for Vice Motherboard. It’s about one of the biggest ideas I believe in–the necessity to spend more money directly on science goals instead of bomb making and defense:
It just so happens that there is another way—a method that would satisfy liberals and conservatives alike. Instead of always spending more on our military, we could transition our nation and its economy into a scientific-industrial complex.
There’s compelling reason to do this beyond what meets the eye. Transhumanist technology is starting to radically change human life. Many experts expect to be able to stop aging and conquer death for human beings in the next 25 years. Others, like myself, see humans merging with machines and replacing our every organ with bionic ones.
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Dec 30, 2015
Congress wants NASA to build a deep space habitat for astronauts, and finish it
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: habitats, space
Part of NASA’s recently passed budget plan laid out by Congress urges the space agency to develop a prototype deep space habitat by as early as 2018.
Dec 29, 2015
A Big Year for Biotech: Bugs as Drugs, Precision Gene Editing, and Fake Food
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, food, internet
Speculations around whether biotech stocks are in a bubble remain undecided for the second year in a row. But one thing stands as indisputable—the field made massive progress during 2015, and faster than anticipated.
For those following the industry in recent years, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.
In fact, according to Adam Feuerstei at The Street, some twenty-eight biotech and drugs stocks grew their market caps to $1 billion or more in 2014, and major headlines like, “Human Genome Sequencing Now Under $1,000 Per Person,” were strewn across the web last year.
It’s been a short 20 years since Mayor and Queloz first detected 51 Peg b, the first exoplanet discovered around a solar type star. This is my personal take on this all; kind of takes me back. I can still smell the thyme at Haute-Provence.
Dec 29, 2015
Will 2015 Be Remembered as the Breakout Year for Transhumanism?
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: life extension, transhumanism, transportation
My latest piece for The Huffington Post. It’s a recap of 2015 for transhumanism and includes some select stories & videos:
Last year, I wrote that 2014 was a great year for the transhumanism movement. But 2015 was simply incredible — it might end up being called a breakout year. I’m not yet willing to declare transhumanism as “mainstream,” but it’s getting quite close now. Transhumanism has become a word that is used frequently by people around the world and in major media when discussing radical science and technology changing our species.
Below is a quick recap of some select stories in English that came out this year on transhumanism and some of my efforts to bring the future closer.
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Dec 29, 2015
A new thought experiment shows how we could get information from a black hole
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, physics, singularity
Physicists think they’ve come up with a way to learn a bit about the interior of a black hole — an impossible procedure that shows the insanity of studying the heart of a singularity.
Dec 29, 2015
Researchers Have Succesfully Written Quantum Code On A Silicon Chip For The First Time
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: computing, quantum physics
Researchers from the University Of New South Wales(UNSW) in Australia have successfully demonstrated that they can write and control the quantum version of computer code on a silicon microchip. Computers, at the moment, use binary language to operate, 0 and 1. Together, these two bits generate code words that can be used to program complex commands. But in quantum computing language there’s also the option for bits to be in superposition, what this actually means is that they can be 1 and 0 at the very exact same time. This unlocks a massively more powerful programming language, but until now scientists haven’t been able to figure out how to write it.
Dec 29, 2015
[Visual Dictionary] Out of This World Space Art — By Dave Valeza | The Creators Project
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: media & arts, space, space travel
“[Dave Valeza] captures the wonder artists worldwide have experienced with the rejuvination of the space industry of the past few years. From finding water on Mars to landing reusable rockets (plural!), 2015 has been a great year for space, and artists are loving it.”
