Chemical-to-electrical-to-chemical signal transmission. A conventional neuron (upper panel) senses chemical signals (orange circles), which trigger an electrical pulse of membrane depolarization (action potential) along the axon, causing chemical release at the axon terminals (blue circles). This process can be mimicked (lower panel) by a chemical biosensor (for glutamate or acetylcholine) connected to an axon-mimicking organic electronic ion pump that transmits electrons/ions and generates chemicals — forming an organic electronic biomimetic neuron. (credit: Daniel T. Simon et al./Biosensors and Bioelectronics)
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The Future of Superhuman Technology
I’m excited to share this 12-min video on transhumanism and my presidential campaign (at 7 min mark). This video just came out, but the Good Mythical Morning (with over 7 million YouTube subscribers) videos often get over 1 million views and 3,000+ comments. This will likely be one of the most popular videos on transhumanism this year, and it’s really funny!
The best sci-fi movie of the year is here — and it’s not Mad Max
A mother and a daughter in an apartment, listening to the women crying on the floors above and…
Does AI Keep You Up at Night? Ask a Tech Visionary Anything
Are you the kind of person who spends a lot of time pondering when machine learning will finally give us humans a run for our money? Or exactly how the technology behind a pulse simulator works? We had a feeling you might be. So what other questions or ideas about the future of technology keep you up at night? This is your chance to have them answered/discussed by two leaders in the field of future tech: Brain Games host and futurist Jason Silva and Matt Grob, CTO of Qualcomm and holder of more than 70 patents relating to wireless communication and cell technology.
The Future of the LGBT Movement May Involve Transhumanism
This is a rewritten story I’m publishing for the first time on The Huffington Post. It’s part of my goal to get other communities involved with supporting transhumanism:
DARPA: We Are Engineering the Organisms That Will Terraform Mars
The Pentagon is working on technology that will allow it to engineer a new organism within a day of it being found in the wild.
3 New Kinds of Battery That Just Might Change the World
The search for smaller and more powerful batteries continues.
How facial recognition will change shopping in stores
Where will these biometrics be stored and who will have access to them?
Micro-tentacles for tiny robots can handle delicate objects like blood vessels
We are quickly approaching the point at which medical (and industrial) nanotech lives up to the hype!
How Transhumanist Tech Will Correct Reality’s Typos
My new story for Vice Motherboard on how in the near future we will edit our realities to suit our tastes and desires: