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What if your memories could live past your mortal shelf life?

Would you have your brain preserved? Do you believe your brain is the essence of you?

To noted American PhD Neuroscientist and Futurist, Ken Hayworth, the answer is an emphatic, “Yes.” He is currently developing machines and techniques to map brain tissue at the nanometer scale — the key to encoding our individual identities.

A self-described transhumanist and President of the Brain Preservation Foundation, Hayworth’s goal is to perfect existing preservation techniques, like cryonics, as well as explore and push evolving opportunities to effect a change on the status quo. Currently there is no brain preservation option that offers systematic, scientific evidence as to how much human brain tissue is actually preserved when undergoing today’s experimental preservation methods. Such methods include vitrification, the procedure used in cryonics to try and prevent human organs from freezing and being destroyed when tissue is cooled for cryopreservation.

Hayworth believes we can achieve his vision of preserving an entire human brain at an accepted and proven standard within the next decade. If Hayworth is right, is there a countdown to immortality?

To find out more, please take a look at the Galactic Public Archives’ newest video. We’d love to hear your thoughts.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (October 03, 2014)

FUTURISM UPDATE (October 03, 2014)

BBC: Toyota’s plans for a fuel cell future http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29459999

POPULAR SCIENCE: CHEOS– China’s New Eye In Space http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eastern-arsenal/cheos-chi…e-in-space

MARKET WATCH: Japan Inc. begins to turn against the weak yen www.marketwatch.com/story/japan-inc-begins-to-turn-against-t…um=twitter

WALL STREET JOURNAL: 5 THINGS TO WATCH IN THE U.S. JOBS REPORT http://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2014/10/02/5-things-to-watch-in…bs-report/

THE DIPLOMAT: Distrust About China’s Antitrust Campaign http://thediplomat.com/2014/09/distrust-about-chinas-antitrust-campaign/

BUSINESS WEEK: Amazon Warehouse Workers Want to Be Paid for Waiting in Line http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-02/secu…ill-decide

THE VERGE: This is not a Prius: Lamborghini made a plug-in hybrid with 910 horsepower http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/1/6882107/lamborghini-asteri…horsepower

FORTUNE: Forget the jobs numbers, America needs to focus on its income problem http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/us-employment-wages-jobs/?utm_…ign=buffer

BLOOMBERG: Buffett to Buy Van Tuyl, Create Berkshire Auto Unit http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/buffett-to-…otive.html

BBC: JP Morgan sees 76 million customer accounts hacked http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29470381

FORBES: Putin Is Winning: EU Backs Away From Ukraine Trade Pact; U.S. On The Sidelines www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/10/02/as-russi…gy-policy/

BLOOMBERG: How generous are the top 50 S&P 500 companies’ 401(k)s? http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-07-22/401…ngs/assets

FORTUNE: After all those IPO flops, does ad tech deserve a second chance? http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/advertising-tech/?utm_content=…ign=buffer

Chinese Navy – Looks Like China’s Sending a Stealth Fighter to Sea http://nosi.org/2014/10/03/chinese-navy-looks-like-chinas-se…um=twitter

THE ECONOMIST: Saving for retirement. Prudence penalised. European savers have suffered terrible returns from pension funds http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21621883…_penalised

ACCENTURE: The Everyday Bank reinvention requires significant changes to distribution and marketing to meet customers’ needs more holistically. http://www.accenture.com/microsites/everydaybank/Pages/banki…sf31873226

CIO: Young Adults Clueless on Cybersecurity Profession http://www.cio.com/article/2690312/cybercrime/young-adults-c…tk.rss_all

CATO INSTITUTE: Washington Should Recognize India as an Emerging Great Power http://www.cato.org/blog/washington-should-recognize-india-e…ign=buffer

MONEY: California Judge Rules That There’s Nothing Sacred About Pension Promises http://time.com/money/3457656/stockton-bankruptcy-judge-pension-promises/

YOUTUBE: Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age — Mitchel Resnick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0XzM34_Ew&feature=youtu.be

TIME: NASA is 3D-printing a better rocket http://ti.me/1qUABl1

WIRED: The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose http://www.wired.com/2014/10/code-published-for-unfixable-us…al_twitter

IEEE Spectrum: Nanograss is Greener on the Photovoltaic Side http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/green-tech/solar/nanogras…pectrum%29

THE ECONOMIST: Schumpeter. Philosopher kings. Business leaders would benefit from studying great writers http://www.economist.com/news/business/21621778-business-lea…pher_kings

THE ECONOMIST: Commodity prices. Oil and trouble. Tumbling resource prices suggest the world economy is slowing http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21621875…nd_trouble

ENGADGET: Seriously: Dubai police get Google Glass to go with their Lamborghinis http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/02/dubai-detectives-google-glass/

BLOOMBERG: Singapore Shows How to Keep Factories Open as Costs Rise http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/singapore-s…-rise.html

CIO: Social Media Marketing ROI – The Business Value of Friends, Followers and Connections http://www.cio.com/article/2685644/social-media/social-media…nwwcontrib

THE ECONOMIST: Our interactive guide to global labour markets http://econ.st/1x31Cbu

PHYS ORG: Quantum meets classical: Qubit fabricated with integrated micromagnet increases speed of quantum manipulation in silicon http://phys.org/news/2014-08-quantum-classical-qubit-fab…t.html#jCp

BLOOMBERG: Albert Edwards Says Watch Japanese Yen and Be Very Afraid http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/albert-edwa…fraid.html

PHYS ORG: Majorana fermion: Physicists observe elusive particle that is its own antiparticle http://phys.org/news/2014-10-majorana-fermion-physicists…ticle.html

CATO INSTITUTE: Government Crowding Out, USPS Style http://www.cato.org/blog/government-crowding-out-usps-style?…ign=buffer

WIRED: 3D-printed pizza and tech ‘groundbreaking’ for ISS http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-10/02/maker-faire-space-3d-printing

POPULAR MECHANICS: How We Could Actually Build a Space Colony www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/deep/how-we-could-act…7_94989486

NEXT GOV: Does the Intelligence Community Really Get Hadoop? http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2014/09/does-intelligence-co…oop/95465/

Deloitte: 3D opportunity: The course on additive manufacturing for business leaders http://dupress.com/articles/3d-opportunity-additive-manufact…01128:dopp

REUTERS: BRITISH PETROLEUM asks judge to reconsider ‘gross negligence’ ruling http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/03/us-bp-spill-motion…sinessNews

TECH CRUNCH: Will Tesla Finally Unveil An Insane Model S Supercar? http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/02/will-tesla-finally-unveil-a…hCrunch%29

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FUTURISM UPDATE (October 02, 2014)

FUTURISM UPDATE (October 02, 2014)

CIO: Microsoft Wants You to Help Predict the Future, and Bet on it http://www.cio.com/article/2689412/innovation/microsoft-want…on-it.html

FINANCIAL TIMES: Robots are our saviours, not the enemy. The alternative is a world in which wages fall and prices rise, writes Peter Thiel http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/db02d75c-4400-11e4-baa7-00144feabdc0.html

FASTCOEXIST: 8 Ways Rail Travel Could Evolve By 2050 http://www.fastcoexist.com/3036165/8-ways-rail-travel-could-evolve-by-2050

PHYSICS WORLD: Quantum data are compressed for the first time http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/sep/29/quantum…first-time

BUSINESS INSIDER: How ‘Internet of Things’ Startup Jasper Became A $1.4 Billion Company http://www.businessinsider.com/jasper-internet-of-things-service-2014-8

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: What We’ll Be Doing in 2022 http://hbr.org/2014/10/what-well-be-doing-in-2022/ar/1?utm_c…dium=Tweet

AIRFORCE TECHNOLOGY: Predator C Avenger Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), United States of America http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/predator-c-aveng…ystem-uas/

THE BULLETIN: From nuclear bombs to killer robots: how amoral technologies become immoral weapons http://thebulletin.org/nuclear-bombs-killer-robots-how-amora…eapons7409

THE BULLETIN: The seeds of failure in Syria and Ukraine were planted long ago http://thebulletin.org/seeds-failure-syria-and-ukraine-were-planted-long-ago7666

THE BULLETIN: To limit—or expand—missile defense http://thebulletin.org/limit%E2%80%94or-expand%E2%80%94missile-defense7647

DELL: Siemens Selects Dell OEM Solutions to Help Make Cities Worldwide More Livable and Sustainable www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/press-releases/2014–10&…er-siemens

McKinsey & Company: Manager and machine: The new leadership equation. As artificial intelligence takes hold, what will it take to be an effective executive? http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/leading_in_the_21st_century/manager_and_machine

CIO: U.S. Lags in Broadband Speed Due to Serious Lack of Competition. The United States lags behind 24 other countries in average broadband speed, according to new research. The reason? A serious lack of competition among U.S. broadband providers. http://www.cio.com/article/2689996/consumer-technology/us-la…ition.html

DAILYTECH: Microsoft Predicts the Future with New Software http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Predicts+the+Future+with+…e29818.htm

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Chipmaker ARM pushes software to secure the Internet of Things http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/chipmake…e20880872/

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: ARM’s low-power ‘flycatcher’ chip step toward ‘Internet of things’ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/arms-low…cle533520/

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Samsung, Intel, Dell team up on Internet of Things standard http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/business-technolog…e19503473/

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Antarctica’s ice loss is messing with Earth’s gravity, scientists say http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/1001/Antarctica-s-ice-…ntists-say

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Some of Earth’s water is actually older than the sun, say scientists http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0929/Some-of-Earth-s-w…scientists

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Do chimps have culture? (+video) http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/1001/Do-chimps-have-culture-video

CIO: Wearable Kidney Dialysis Machine Sent to Clinical Trials http://www.cio.com/article/2688828/wearable-technology/weara…rials.html

Three D’s – Decision Makers (Senior Leadership), Deciders (Management), and Doers (Users).

Evidence of Past Glaciation Found on Mars http://www.21stcentech.com/evidence-glaciation-mars/

KAI: How to build a low-cost ‘cloaking’ device using ordinary lenses http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-build-a-low-cost-cloaking-d…ary-lenses

KAI: New molecule found in space suggests life origins http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-molecule-found-in-space-suggests-life-origins

KAI: Can you out-think a computer in judging photos? http://www.kurzweilai.net/can-you-out-think-a-computer-in-judging-photos

KAI: Do neurons see what we tell them to see? http://www.kurzweilai.net/do-neurons-see-what-we-tell-them-to-see

KAI: First Ebola case diagnosed in US confirmed by CDC http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-ebola-case-diagnosed-in-us-confirmed-by-cdc

KAI: How cancer cells assure immortality by lengthening the ends of chromosomes http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-cancer-cells-assure-immortalit…hromosomes

KAI: MIT researchers design ‘perfect’ solar absorber http://www.kurzweilai.net/mit-researchers-design-perfect-solar-absorber

KAI: Massive electrode array system will do first large-scale network recording of brain activity http://www.kurzweilai.net/massive-electrode-array-system-wil…n-activity

THE GUARDIAN: Hackers charged with stealing over $100m in US army and Xbox technology http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/30/four-hacke…technology

NEW YORK TIMES: As PayPal Spins Off, Apple Pay Signals New Era at Cash Register http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/technology/apple-pay-signa…e&_r=0

New Free resources from IBM help you take the guesswork out of measuring Social Media’s impact on what really matters: Sales! https://exploreb2b.com/articles/free-webinar-white-paper-ibm…l-business

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia to Form Arctic Military Command by 2017 http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russia-to-for…08199.html

MOSCOW TIMES: U.S. Air Force Working on Plan to Kill Reliance on Russian Rocket Engines http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/u-s-air-force…08151.html

LINKEDIN: “Outright Conquering Success — 468 Easy Tips!” by @SciCzar http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141001014007-344…-easy-tips

DER SPIEGEL: Bridge to Nowhere: Are EU Subsidies for Andalusia Well Spent? www.spiegel.de/international/europe/questions-mounting-about…94844.html

CIO: CBS Interactive CIO Says Shadow IT Is an Opportunity http://www.cio.com/article/2690752/it-strategy/cbs-interacti…unity.html

WIRED: One Doctor’s Quest to Save People by Injecting Them With Scorpion Venom http://www.wired.com/2014/06/scorpion-venom/

Ex-Homeland Security Chief Says Energy Industry Under Increasing Threat of Cyber Attack http://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/99871-ex-homeland-se…H0.twitter

GIZMODO: Could a Simple Pill Make You Mentally Stronger? http://gizmodo.com/could-a-simple-pill-make-you-mentally-stronger-1640676335

PHYS ORG: Driving cancer cells to suicide http://phys.org/news/2014-09-cancer-cells-suicide.html

RAMPANT GEOPOLITICS. YAHOO NEWS: Report: Advanced iOS Virus Targeting Hong Kong Protesters https://www.yahoo.com/tech/report-advanced-ios-virus-targeti…12709.html

WIRED: New Quadcopters Arrive Just as US Eases Its Ban on Camera Drones http://www.wired.com/2014/10/new-swarming-drones-appear-just…al_twitter

NETWORK WORLD: Alcatel-Lucent sells enterprise networking unit to China Huaxin http://www.networkworld.com/article/2690294/alcatellucent-se…ign=buffer

WALL STREET JOURNAL: How College Major, Field and Job Affect Annual Pay http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/how-college-major-field-and-job…/?mod=e2tw

THE TIMES: Drug offers hope in cutting cholesterol http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4223909.ece…;0-0-0

FINANCIAL TIMES: When Chinese competition threatened his business, one man refused to accept defeat http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f5f0cf10-1e62-11e4&#4…abdc0.html

COMPUTER WEEKLY: Internet of things will drive forward lifestyle innovations http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Internet-of-things-wil…nnovations

LINKEDIN: Making Baby-Steps an Entrepreneurial Success! https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141002025854&#…al-success

LE MONDE: In English : Revelations on the French Big Brother http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2013/07/04/revelations…_3224.html

FRANCE 24: Philips ordered to pay $467 mln in Masimo patent trial http://www.france24.com/en/20141002-philips-ordered-pay-467-…ce=twitter

CIO: 3D Printed Skin Holds Promise for Burn Victims and Others http://www.cio.com/article/2688353/3d-printing/3d-printed-sk…thers.html

NASDAQ: JP Energy Partners LP prices IPO at $20 midpiont http://www.nasdaq.com/article/jp-energy-partners-lp-prices-i…z3ExW9p2iy

SAP: Top 10 Strategic Workforce Trends for 2020 from Oxford Economics — See more at: http://www.news-sap.com/top-10-strategic-trends-workforce-20…RK9Ba.dpuf

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The Abolition of Medicine as a Goal for Humanity 2.0

What follows is my position piece for London’s FutureFest 2013, the website for which no longer exists.

Medicine is a very ancient practice. In fact, it is so ancient that it may have become obsolete. Medicine aims to restore the mind and body to their natural state relative to an individual’s stage in the life cycle. The idea has been to live as well as possible but also die well when the time came. The sense of what is ‘natural’ was tied to statistically normal ways of living in particular cultures. Past conceptions of health dictated future medical practice. In this respect, medical practitioners may have been wise but they certainly were not progressive.

However, this began to change in the mid-19th century when the great medical experimenter, Claude Bernard, began to champion the idea that medicine should be about the indefinite delaying, if not outright overcoming, of death. Bernard saw organisms as perpetual motion machines in an endless struggle to bring order to an environment that always threatens to consume them. That ‘order’ consists in sustaining the conditions needed to maintain an organism’s indefinite existence. Toward this end, Bernard enthusiastically used animals as living laboratories for testing his various hypotheses.

Historians identify Bernard’s sensibility with the advent of ‘modern medicine’, an increasingly high-tech and aspirational enterprise, dedicated to extending the full panoply of human capacities indefinitely. On this view, scientific training trumps practitioner experience, radically invasive and reconstructive procedures become the norm, and death on a physician’s watch is taken to be the ultimate failure. Humanity 2.0 takes this way of thinking to the next level, which involves the abolition of medicine itself. But what exactly would that mean – and what would replace it?

The short answer is bioengineering, the leading edge of which is ‘synthetic biology’. The molecular revolution in the life sciences, which began in earnest with the discovery of DNA’s function in 1953, came about when scientists trained in physics and chemistry entered biology. What is sometimes called ‘genomic medicine’ now promises to bring an engineer’s eye to improving the human condition without presuming any limits to what might count as optimal performance. In that case, ‘standards’ do not refer to some natural norm of health, but to features of an organism’s design that enable its parts to be ‘interoperable’ in service of its life processes.

In this brave new ‘post-medical’ world, there is always room for improvement and, in that sense, everyone may be seen as ‘underperforming’ if not outright disabled. The prospect suggests a series of questions for both the individual and society: (1) Which dimensions of the human condition are worth extending – and how far should we go? (2) Can we afford to allow everyone a free choice in the matter, given the likely skew of the risky decisions that people might take? (3) How shall these improvements be implemented? While bioengineering is popularly associated with nano-interventions inside the body, of course similarly targeted interventions can be made outside the body, or indeed many bodies, to produce ‘smart habitats’ that channel and reinforce desirable emergent traits and behaviours that may even leave long-term genetic traces.

However these questions are answered, it is clear that people will be encouraged, if not legally required, to learn more about how their minds and bodies work. At the same time, there will no longer be any pressure to place one’s fate in the hands of a physician, who instead will function as a paid consultant on a need-to-know and take-it-or-leave-it basis. People will take greater responsibility for the regular maintenance and upgrading of their minds and bodies – and society will learn to tolerate the diversity of human conditions that will result from this newfound sense of autonomy.

FUTURISM UPDATE (October 01, 2014)

FUTURISM UPDATE (October 01, 2014)

WFS: Signs of “Connected Consciousness” Detected on Global Scale http://www.wfs.org/blogs/richard-samson/signs-connected-cons…obal-scale

New York State Takes Activist Role in Implementing Solar Energy Projects http://www.21stcentech.com/york-state-takes-activist-role-im…-projects/

START: START researchers earn $2.6 million NSF grant to investigate social media’s ability to predict political instability http://www.start.umd.edu/news/start-researchers-earn-26-mill…ty-predict

MASHABLE: There Are Now 3 Million Data Centers in the U.S., and Climbing http://mashable.com/2014/09/30/doe-energy-efficiency/?utm_ci…-main-link

POLITICO: Did Obama Just Unify America’s Enemies? Why bombing Syria could turn out to be a disastrous mistake. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/did-obama-jus…z3Eq31JyW1

CIO: Inside the NSA’s Private Cloud http://www.cio.com/article/2688434/private-cloud/exclusive-i…cloud.html

CIO: How Live Tweeting Is Changing Broadcast Media http://www.cio.com/article/2689318/social-media/how-live-twe…media.html

How Wearable Devices Can Transform Contact Center Operations http://www.customerexperiencereport.com/strategy-and-trends/…perations/

DIGITAL COMMUNITIES: Forecasting the Future for Technology and Policing http://www.digitalcommunities.com/articles/Forecasting-the-F…cing.html#

FORTUNE: Hackers charged with stealing Xbox intellectual property http://fortune.com/2014/09/30/xbox-hacking/?utm_content=buff…ign=buffer

COMPUTER WORLD: Software stack from Eclipse could unleash Java developer army on IoT http://www.computerworld.com/article/2688541/networking-hard…n-iot.html

LINKEDIN: “Outright Conquering Success — 264 Easy Tips!” http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141001014007-344…-easy-tips

BUSINESS INSIDER: Charles Nenner — Who’s Been Warning Of Market Collapses For Years — Warns A ‘Major Collapse’ Is Coming In 2018 http://www.businessinsider.com/charles-nenner-on-deflation-a…z3EqzWzTWR

THE ECONOMIST: India’s economy. Reform à la Modi. The new government’s modest policies will not bring back 9% growth http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21620231…rm_la_modi

FORTUNE: The worrying collapse in global trade http://fortune.com/2014/04/11/the-worrying-collapse-in-global-trade/

ZERO HEDGE: Steve Forbes Warns Of Economic “Catastrophe” Due To Fed’s Dollar Debasement http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-11/steve-forbe…debasement

BLOOMBERG: China Property Failures Seen as $33 Billion in Trusts Due http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-19/property-fl…redit.html

THE CITY FIX: Building the city of the future through smart, connected urban transport http://thecityfix.com/blog/building-city-future-smart-connec…on-feller/

FASTCOEXIST: 8 Ways Rail Travel Could Evolve By 2050 http://www.fastcoexist.com/3036165/8-ways-rail-travel-could-evolve-by-2050

AMERICAN SCIENTIST: Weaponized Ebola: Is It Really a Bioterror Threat? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weaponized-ebola-i…or-threat/

FORBES: Mantras That Guide Thriving Organizations http://www.forbes.com/sites/ekaterinawalter/2014/09/24/mantr…ium=social

CNBC: US, China, Europe nearing ‘Minsky moment’: Economist. The world’s three economic superpowers — the U.S., China and Europe — are heading for a major collapse in asset values because their economic models favor consumption instead of productivity, one economist has warned. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102035634#.

THE ECONOMIST: Critical infrastructure. Crashing the system. How to protect critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21606419-how-pr…ing-system

THE FINANCIAL TIMES: Euro in Crisis http://www.ft.com/indepth/euro-in-crisis

FINANCIAL TIMES: The Future of European Union http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/84182838-d589-11e…eabdc0.pdf

LINKEDIN: “Outright Conquering Success — 468 Easy Tips!” http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141001014007-344…-easy-tips

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Dr. Ken Hayworth: What is the Future of your Mind?

We live in world, where technological advances continually allow new and provocative opportunities to deeply explore every aspect of our existence. Understanding the human brain remains one of our most important challenges– but with 100 billion neurons to contend with, the painstakingly slow progress can give the impression that we may never succeed. Brain mapping research unlocks secrets to our mental, social and physical wellness.

In our upcoming releases for the Galactic Public Archives, noted American PhD Neuroscientist and Futurist, Ken Hayworth outlines why he feels that mapping the brain will not be a quixotic task. Through this, he reveals his unconventional plan to ensure humanity’s place in the universe—forever.

We admit to teasing you with the below link in preparation for the main events.

FUTURISM UPDATE (September 30, 2014)

FUTURISM UPDATE (September 30, 2014)

LIVE SCIENCE: Higgs Boson to the World Wide Web: 7 Big Discoveries Made at CERN http://www.livescience.com/48052-cern-anniversary-big-discoveries.html

3-D PRINT: NYC Engineer 3D Prints a Mechanical Computer, The Turbo Entabulator http://3dprint.com/16795/3d-printed-computer/

STATE OF THE GLOBE: World’s First Wearable Drone Takes Flight http://stateofglobe.com/2014/09/28/worlds-first-wearable-drone-takes-flight/

STATE OF THE GLOBE: 12 Ways to Measure the Bitcoin Network’s Health http://stateofglobe.com/2014/09/28/12-ways-to-measure-the-bi…ks-health/

FORTUNE: Why Amazon’s Fire phone failed http://fortune.com/2014/09/29/why-amazons-fire-phone-failed/…ign=buffer

REUTERS: Vista Equity to buy Tibco Software for $4.3 billion http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/us-tibco-software-…1Y20140929

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia Calls for Joint Effort With U.S. to Fight Islamic State http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-calls-for-…07990.html

DER SPIEGEL: The Caliphate Next Door: Turkey Faces Up to its Islamic State Problem www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-jihadist-ac…94392.html

DER SPIEGEL: Finnish Prime Minister: ‘Moscow Is Provoking a Number of Its Neighbors’ www.spiegel.de/international/europe/finnish-prime-minister-d…94356.html

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Leaders Indicating. Why Markets Now Use Politics to Predict Economics http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141849/ruchir-sharma/leaders-indicating

FOREIGN POLICY: Obama’s Islamic State Blame Game http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/29/obamas_islamic_state_blame_game

VENTURE BEAT: FireChat gets embraced by Hong Kong protesters, plans for verified usernames and encryption http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/29/china-blocked-instagram-so…-firechat/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Cyberwar: Not if. Not when. Now. http://washingtonexaminer.com/cyberwar-not-if.-not-when.-now./article/2553470

CIO: VoIP Phone Systems at Risk of Shellshock Bash Attacks http://www.cio.com/article/2687830/voice-over-ip/voip-phone-…tacks.html

CIO: How Social Media Can Influence High-Stakes Business Decisions http://www.cio.com/article/2686973/social-media/how-social-m…sions.html

CIO: IT Leaders Aren’t All Coming From Tech http://www.cio.com/article/2687205/careers-staffing/it-leade…-tech.html

KAI: ‘Greener,’ low-cost transistor heralds advance in flexible electronics http://www.kurzweilai.net/greener-low-cost-transistor-herald…lectronics

KAI: Turning the Moon into a giant cosmic ray detector http://www.kurzweilai.net/turning-the-moon-into-a-giant-cosmic-ray-detector

KAI: Ultra-low-energy-consuming transistors and circuits http://www.kurzweilai.net/ultra-low-energy-consuming-transistors-and-circuits

THE GUARDIAN: What is the ‘Google tax’? http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/29/what-is-goog…ge-osborne

THE GUARDIAN: Bitcoin goes mainstream: Circle’s payments make cryptocurrencies easy http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/29/bitcoin-ci…my-allaire

BLOOMBERG: HP Unveils Moonshot Servers Based on ARM Technology http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/hp-unveils-…ology.html

BLOOMBERG: Oracle Cloud to Match Amazon.com’s Pricing, Ellison Says http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/oracle-clou…-says.html

BLOOMBERG: Billionaire Ma Says Alibaba Works With China on Security http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/billionaire…urity.html

YAHOO NEWS: WATCH: FAA Approves Drone Use for Domestic TV and Movie Production https://www.yahoo.com/tech/this-is-the-first-time-the-faa-ha…65419.html

YAHOO NEWS: Protest over contract award to delay work on NASA space taxi http://news.yahoo.com/protest-over-contract-award-delay-nasa…nance.html

YAHOO NEWS: Global wildlife populations down by half since 1970: WWF http://news.yahoo.com/global-wildlife-populations-down-half-…18673.html

YAHOO NEWS: Sierra Nevada challenges NASA ‘space taxi’ contracts to Boeing, SpaceX http://news.yahoo.com/sierra-nevada-challenges-nasa-space-ta…nance.html

NEW YORK TIMES: Cisco: The Internet Needs More Control http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/cisco-the-internet-…y&_r=0

NEW YORK TIMES: E.U. Inquiry Into Tax Deals for Multinationals Like Apple Pushes Ahead http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/business/in-tax-inquiry-in…technology

NEW YORK TIMES: Microsoft Begins a Push Into the Polling World http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/upshot/microsoft-begins-a-…&abg=0

NEW YORK TIMES: Tibco Software Agrees to Sell Itself to a Private Equity Firm for $4.3 Billion http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/tibco-software-to-sel…technology

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Google Capital Makes First China Investment, Backs InnoLight http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/09/29/google-capital-makes-…t/?mod=ST1

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Brown Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants for Drone Surveillance http://online.wsj.com/articles/california-governor-vetoes-bi…TopStories

ENGINEERING: Police Motorcycles Go Green http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesi…Green.aspx

ENGINEERING: NASA Telescopes Detect Clear Skies, Water Vapor on Exoplanets http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…anets.aspx

ENGINEERING: Underwater Robots Could Increase Port Security http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…urity.aspx

ENGINEERING: Triton UAV Completes Cross-Country Navy Test http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-Test.aspx

Phys.org: Now hear this: Simple fluid waveguide performs spectral analysis in a manner similar to the cochlea http://phys.org/news/2014-09-simple-fluid-waveguide-spectral-analysis.html

DAILY MAIL: Countdown to Mars: Nasa starts final assembly of huge rockets to test spacecraft it hopes will take man to the red planet http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2774080/Count…mailonline

BUSINESS INSIDER: Here’s How Apple Is Making Its New HQ ‘The Greenest Building On The Planet’ www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-apple-is-making-its-new-hq…2014–9

FORBES: Has Marissa Had Enough Of This Yahoo Turnaround? http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2014/09/26/has-maris…urnaround/

FORBES: Forbes 400: Richest Americans Facing Tougher Competition In China Business http://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2014/09/29/forbe…-business/

BBC: Argentina found to be in contempt of court by US judge http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29415608

BLOOMBERG: Toyota Faces New Unintended Acceleration Probe http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/toyota-face…ollas.html

FORBES: The Most Amazing PCs Of September 2014 http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2014/09/29/the-mos…ium=social

THE ECONOMIST: Farming in the Netherlands. Polder and wiser. Dutch farmers add sustainability to their enviable productivity. http://www.economist.com/news/business/21613356-dutch-farmer…-and-wiser

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FUTURISM UPDATE (September 27, 2014)

FUTURISM UPDATE (September 27, 2014)

ENGADGET: Google’s data-transferring tool gets a shiny new interface http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/26/google-takeout-redesign/

BLOOMBERG: Ford Due for Ratings Boost as Profit Returns to 1999 Level: Cars http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-26/ford-due-fo…in.company

BLOOMBERG: A Primer on the Deadly Math of Ebola http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-26/ebol…h#r=hpt-ls

BLOOMBERG: Kaiser Permanente’s Genetic Database Is Boon to Medical Research http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-25/kais…#r=nav-fst

Get Your Leather and Meat from a Local Manufacturer Named Modern Meadow http://www.21stcentech.com/leather-meat-local-manufacturer-named-modern-meadows/

UNIVERSE TODAY: Busy Spaceport: There are Now Five Spaceships Parked at the Space Station http://www.universetoday.com/114868/busy-spaceport-there-are…ign=buffer

POPULAR SCIENCE: The Week In Drones: Drones Fight Ebola, Iranian Dogfighters, And More http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/week-drones-iranian…s-and-more

SCIENCE ALERT: Scientists have discovered an on/off switch for ageing cells http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20142409-26223.html

CIO: 4 Tips to Help CIOs Land a Seat on the Board http://www.cio.com/article/2688432/cio-role/4-tips-to-help-c…board.html

REUTERS: Secret tapes of Fed meetings on Goldman prompt call for U.S. hearings http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/27/us-usa-fed-whistle…F320140927

REUTERS: German courts uphold ban on Uber ride-share service http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/26/us-uber-germany-ba…3320140926

REUTERS: Microsoft offers first look at new Windows — and gives it a name http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/26/us-microsoft-windo…2F20140926

LINKEDIN: “Getting Apple, Microsoft and Fortune-500s to Uninterruptedly Buy From You!” by @SciCzar on @LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140927032047-344…g-from-you

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Review: When Google Met WikiLeaks (2014) by Julian Assange

Via @ClubOfINFO.
Julian Assange’s 2014 book When Google Met WikiLeaks consists of essays authored by Assange and, more significantly, the transcript of a discussion between Assange and Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen.
As should be of greatest interest to technology enthusiasts, we revisit some of the uplifting ideas from Assange’s philosophy that I picked out from among the otherwise dystopian high-tech future predicted in Cypherpunks (2012). Assange sees the Internet as “transitioning from an apathetic communications medium into a demos – a people” defined by shared culture, values and aspirations (p. 10). This idea, in particular, I can identify with.
Assange’s description of how digital communication is “non-linear” and compromises traditional power relations is excellent. He notes that relations defined by physical resources and technology (unlike information), however, continue to be static (p. 67). I highlight this as important for the following reason. It profoundly strengthens the hypothesis that state power will also eventually recede and collapse in the physical world, with the spread of personal factories and personal enhancement technologies (analogous to personal computers) like 3-d printers and synthetic life-forms, as explained in my own techno-liberation thesis and in the work of theorists like Yannick Rumpala.
When Google Met Wikileaks tells, better than any other text, the story of the clash of philosophies between Google and WikiLeaks – despite Google’s Eric Schmidt assuring Assange that he is “sympathetic to you, obviously”. Specifically, Assange draws our attention to the worryingly close relationship between Google and the militarized US police state in the post-9/11 era. Fittingly, large portions of the book (p. 10–16, 205–220) are devoted to giving Assange’s account of the now exposed world-molesting US regime’s war on WikiLeaks and its cowardly attempts to stifle transparency and accountability.
The publication of When Google Met WikiLeaks is really a reaction to Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s 2013 book The New Digital Age (2013), co-authored with Google Ideas director Jared Cohen. Unfortunately, I have not studied that book, although I intend to pen a fitting enough review for it in due course to follow on from this review. It is safe to say that Assange’s own review in the New York Times in 2013 was quite crushing enough. However, nothing could be more devastating to its pro-US thesis than the revelations of widespread illegal domestic spying exposed by Edward Snowden, which shook the US and the entire world shortly after The New Digital Age’s very release.
Assange’s review of The New Digital Age is reprinted in his book (p. 53–60). In it, he describes how Schmidt and Cohen are in fact little better than State Department cronies (p. 22–25, 32, 37–42), who first met in Iraq and were “excited that consumer technology was transforming a society flattened by United States military occupation”. In turn, Assange’s review flattens both of these apologists and their feeble pretense to be liberating the world, tearing their book apart as a “love song” to a regime, which deliberately ignores the regime’s own disgraceful record of human rights abuses and tries to conflate US aggression with free market forces (p. 201–203).
Cohen and Schmidt, Assange tells us, are hypocrites, feigning concerns about authoritarian abuses that they secretly knew to be happening in their own country with Google’s full knowledge and collaboration, yet did nothing about (p. 58, 203). Assange describes the book, authored by Google’s best, as a shoddily researched, sycophantic dance of affection for US foreign policy, mocking the parade of praise it received from some of the greatest villains and war criminals still at large today, from Madeleine Albright to Tony Blair. The authors, Assange claims, are hardly sympathetic to the democratic internet, as they “insinuate that politically motivated direct action on the internet lies on the terrorist spectrum” (p. 200).
As with Cypherpunks, most of Assange’s book consists of a transcript based on a recording that can be found at WikiLeaks, and in drafting this review I listened to the recording rather than reading the transcript in the book. The conversation moves in what I thought to be three stages, the first addressing how WikiLeaks operates and the kind of politically beneficial journalism promoted by WikiLeaks. The second stage of the conversation addresses the good that WikiLeaks believes it has achieved politically, with Assange claiming credit for a series of events that led to the Arab Spring and key government resignations.
When we get to the third stage of the conversation, something of a clash becomes evident between the Google chairman and WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, as Schmidt and Cohen begin to posit hypothetical scenarios in which WikiLeaks could potentially cause harm. The disagreement evident in this part of the discussion is apparently shown in Schmidt and Cohen’s book: they alleged that “Assange, specifically” (or any other editor) lacks sufficient moral authority to decide what to publish. Instead, we find special pleading from Schmidt and Cohen for the state: while regime control over information in other countries is bad, US regime control over information is good (p. 196).
According to the special pleading of Google’s top executives, only one regime – the US government and its secret military courts – has sufficient moral authority to make decisions about whether a disclosure is harmful or not. Assange points out that Google’s brightest seem eager to avoid explaining why this one regime should have such privilege, and others should not. He writes that Schmidt and Cohen “will tell you that open-mindedness is a virtue, but all perspectives that challenge the exceptionalist drive at the heart of American foreign policy will remain invisible to them” (p. 35).
Assange makes a compelling argument that Google is not immune to the coercive power of the state in which it operates. We need to stop mindlessly chanting “Google is different. Google is visionary. Google is the future. Google is more than just a company. Google gives back to the community. Google is a force for good” (p. 36). It’s time to tell it how it is, and Assange knows just how to say it.
Google is becoming a force for bad, and is little different from any other massive corporation led by ageing cronies of the narrow-minded state that has perpetrated the worst outrages against the open and democratic internet. Google “Ideas” are myopic, close-minded, and nationalist (p. 26), and the corporate-state cronies who think them up have no intention to reduce the number of murdered journalists, torture chambers and rape rooms in the world or criticize the regime under which they live. Google’s politics are about keeping things exactly as they are, and there is nothing progressive about that vision.
To conclude with what was perhaps the strongest point in the book, Assange quotes NYT columnist Tom Friedman. We are warned by Friedman as early as 1999 that Silicon Valley is led less now by the mercurial “hidden hand” of the market than the “hidden fist” of the US state. Assange argues, further, that the close relations between Silicon Valley and the regime in Washington indicate Silicon Valley is now like a “velvet glove” on the “hidden fist” of the regime (p. 43). Similarly, Assange warns those of us of a libertarian persuasion that the danger posed by the state has two horns – one government, the other corporate – and that limiting our attacks to one of them means getting gored on the other. Despite its positive public image, Google’s (and possibly also Facebook’s) ties with the US state for the purpose of monitoring the US pubic deserve a strong public backlash.
By Harry J. Bentham – More articles by Harry J. Bentham
Originally published at h+ Magazine on 18 September 2014
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