Is it time to push the "up" button on the space elevator?
A space elevator consisting of an Earth-anchored tether that extends 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) into space could eventually provide routine, safe, inexpensive and quiet access to orbit, some researchers say.
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THE OMNISCIENT TRUTH ABOUT OUTER-SPACE INTELLIGENCE AND WHAT THE OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENT HAS TO DECLARE ABOUT IT! BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI.
I have the glory to have read every book by Dr. Raymond Kurzweil with the sole exception of “Transcend.”
Dr. Kurzweil is an engineer graduate from grandiose M.I.T. (the technological avant-garde within the Ivy League universities).
Beyond his many inventions, patents, and scientific breakthroughs and discoveries, please remember that Ray holds 19 doctoral degrees among many other amenities.
I exactly relish the way he exercises his mind. And instead of fighting sourly against his contrarians, he kindly and respectfully invites them to lavishly publish the opposing views on books and blogs.
Ray is a pervasive sage by any known or unknown measure. He is now the Chief Engineer Officer at Google and the Chairman of the Singularity University (founded by him with the institutional backing of NASA and Google).
We all like the Founding Fathers, especially Jefferson and Franklin. But tons of Americans and others seem to frequently and prevalently ignore this Hi-Tech Founding Father.
Within his duties at Google, he is embarked into the greatest scientific advancement in order to transform any illness or biological cause of death (natural death) into a superseded cure (outright state of well-being), radically.
HE IS INTO STRINGENT R&D&I TO MAKE HUMAN DEATH A THING OF THE PAST.
I also argue that he will be auspiciously fighting against challenges and problems in order to systemically and systematically reverse-engineer biology and the human brain with the utter purpose of seizing the correct software templates for Strongest Quantum Supercomputing.
In “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” (ISBN-13: 978–0143037880) book, Ray argues that most extraterrestrial beings might, just might, exhibit a grayish look because they are the trans-exobiologicals stemming from [outer-space and infinitely beyond] advanced exobiological civilizations.
Trans-exobiologicals are exobiologicals who have transcended their own exobiology.
Having said that and since the advent of his landmark book (I wish all fact-driven books were written like this canonical marvel), he has given many interviews and speeches about The Technological Singularity.
As a process of that, one day Ray ended up giving a seminal keynote to the upper management and scientists at SETI Institute. SETI, an American Organization, stands for Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Conversely, the about one-hour talk was about the Technological Singularity and the Law of Accelerating Returns as it posited by Ray himself.
Towards the end of the keynote, one or two SETI scientists told Ray that, as per their own research, they were considering as a probable and plausible scenario to be that extraterrestrials’ domicile was within the immeasurable limits of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
The original and official YouTube video published by SETI is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6hU4lS9_kI
In the mean time, kindly please have a lot of educational and propitious fun in ignored flanks both in Computronium and the Omniverse.
Mr. Andres Agostini
www.linkedin.com/in/andresagostini
The Future of Space-Age Risk Management: Transformative and Integrative Risk Management!. https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/03/omniscentia
http://ThisSuccess.wordpress.com
AS A CONSULTANT, MANAGER, STRATEGIST AND RESEARCHER, ANDRES WORKS AND HAS WORKED WITH INSTITUTIONS ─ AND THE RESPECTIVE EXECUTIVES OF SAID ORGANIZATIONS ─ SUCH AS:
► Toyota,
► Mitsubishi,
► World Bank,
► Shell,
► Statoil,
► Total,
► Exxon,
► Mobil,
► PDVSA, Citgo,
► GE,
► GMAC,
► TNT Express,
► AT&T
► GTE,
► Amoco,
► BP,
► Abbot Laboratories,
► World Health Organization,
► Ernst Young Consulting,
► SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation),
► Pak Mail,
► Wilpro Energy Services,
► Phillips Petroleum Company,
► Dupont,
► Conoco,
► ENI (Italy’s petroleum state-owned firm),
► Chevron,
► LDG Management (HCC Benefits).
FEBRUARY 14/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
Reinventing Social Media: Deep Learning, Predictive Marketing, And Image Recognition Will Change Everything
http://www.businessinsider.com/social-medias-big-data-future…_inn_feb14
EU Rules Mean That ‘Children Can’t Get Life-Saving Cancer Drugs’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/11/eu-rules-children-c…mg00000067
Virgin Atlantic Is Using Google Glass for Faster Check-Ins
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/11/google_gl…s_for.html
Here’s What California’s Historic Drought Will Do To The Economy
http://www.businessinsider.com/california-drought-economy-20…z2t3NVIAyL
Digital Currency Woes: Second Bitcoin Exchange Halts Withdrawals
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/digital-currency-woe…als-n27776
The GMAT: An exam with greater profit margins than Apple
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/11/gmat-exam-profi…ign=buffer
DIA Director Lt. Gen Michael Flynn on Current and Future Worldwide Threats Testimony Before the Senate Armed Services Committee
http://www.dia.mil/News/SpeechesandTestimonies/tabid/7031/Ar…testi.aspx
Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/many-promising-embryon…l-loophole
Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else)
http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/zero-moment/why-robot-tru…where-else
Salvadoran Newspaper Sends Drone To Cover Presidential Election
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/salvadoran-newspape…l-election
Interactive Infographic: The Search For Other Earths
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/interactive-infographi…her-earths
Possible Link Found Between Bacterium And Multiple Sclerosis
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/possible-link-found-be…-sclerosis
Now In Japan: Giant Cyborg Cockroaches
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/now-japan-giant-cyborg-cockroaches
A Motorcycle Helmet For The Digital World
http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/motorcycle-helmet-digital-world
A Mind-Controlled Robotic Hand With A Sense Of Touch
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/mind-controlled-robotic-hand-sense-touch
Common Goal Partnering: An Exciting New Model For Cloud Service Providers
http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2014/02/11/cgp-cloud/
‘Brazil Is Not A Civilized Country’ Says The Country’s Most Controversial News Anchor
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2014/02/10/brazi…ws-anchor/
Inside Google’s Mysterious Ethics Board
http://www.forbes.com/sites/privacynotice/2014/02/03/inside-…sform-tech
Looking To Amazon, BuildDirect Raises $30M To Take On Home Improvement Giants
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/01/21/buildirect…sform-tech
Don’t Believe The Innovation Cliché: Think Outside The Box But Stay Inside It
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dileeprao/2014/02/03/dont-believ…nking-risk
Former NSA Security Architect Pushes Email Encryption For The Masses
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2014/02/10/former…nking-risk
Google’s Market Cap Hits $400 Billion for First Time
http://mashable.com/2014/02/11/google-400-billion/
NASA Wants to 3D Print Equipment in Space
http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/nasa-3d-printing-space/
The Felino cB7 is a Racers Dream, Will it Transition from Track to Road?
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-Road.aspx
The Naval Postgraduate School Focuses on Systems Engineering
http://www.engineering.com/Education/EducationArticles/Artic…ering.aspx
Al Qaeda is “morphing,” not on the run, intel chiefs say
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-qaeda-is-morphing-not-on-the-…hiefs-say/
The New World’s Most Powerful Laser Can Destroy Any Planet Humans Want
The New World’s Most Powerful Laser Can Destroy Any Planet Humans Want
Entrepreneurship at MIT
http://executive.mit.edu/blog/2014/02/entrepreneurship-at-mit/
Future of Manufacturing
http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/future_of_manufacturing/53
Strategies for Sustainable Business
http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/strategies_f…usiness/55
Leading Change in Complex Organizations
http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/leading_chan…zations/22
QUOTATION(S): “…All the notions we thought solid, all the values of civilized life, all that made for stability in international relations, all that made for regularity in the economy … in a word, all that tended happily to limit the uncertainty of the morrow, all that gave nations and individuals some confidence in the morrow … all this seems badly compromised. I have consulted all augurs I could find, of every species, and I have heard only vague words, contradictory prophecies, curiously feeble assurances. Never has humanity combined so much power with so much disorder, so much anxiety with so many playthings, so much knowledge with so much uncertainty…”
CITATION(S): “…There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible…” AND “…That instability [between stasis and dynamism], or our awareness of it, heightened by the fluidity of contemporary life: by the ease with which ideas and messages, goods and people, cross borders; by technologies that seek to surpass the quickness of the human mind and overcome the constraints of the human body; by the ‘universal solvents’ of commerce and popular culture; by the dissolution or reformation of established institutions, particularly large corporations, and the rise of new ones; by the synthesis of East and West, of ancient and modern ─ by the combination and recombination of seemingly every artifact of human culture. Ours is a magnificently creative era. But the creativity produces change, and that change attracts enemies, philosophical as well as self-interested… With some exceptions, the enemies of the future aim their attacks not at creativity itself but at the dynamical processes through which it is carried. In our post ─ Cold War era, for instance, free markets are recognized as powerful forces for social cultural, and technological change ─ liberating in the eyes of some, threatening to others. The same is true for markets in ideas: for free speech and worldwide communication; for what John Stuart Mill called ‘experiments in living’; for scientific research, artistic expression, and technological innovation. All of these processes are shaping an unknown, and unknowable, future. Some people look at such diverse, decentralized, choice-driven systems and rejoice, even when they don’t like particular choices. Other recoil. In pursuit of stability and control, they seek to eliminate or curb these unruly, too-creative forces … Stasists and dynamists are thus divided not just by simple, short-term policy issues but by fundamental disagreements about the way the world works. They clash over the nature of progress and over its desirability: Does it require a plan to reach a specified goal? Or is it an unbounded process of exploration and discovery? Does the quest for improvement express destructive, nihilistic discontent, or the highest human qualities? Does progress depend on puritanical repression or a playful spirit? … Stasists and dynamists disagree about the limits and use of knowledge. Stasists demand that knowledge be articulated and easily shared. Dynamists, by contrast, appreciate dispersed, often tacit knowledge. They recognize the limits of human minds even as they celebrate learning … Those conflicts lead to very different beliefs about good institutions and rules: Stasists seek specifics to govern each new situation and keep things under control. Dynamicists want to limit universal rulemaking to broadly applicable and rarely changed principles, within which people can create and test countless combinations. Stasists want their detailed ruled to apply to everyone; dynamists prefer competing, nested rule sets … Such disagreements have political ramifications that go much deeper than the short-term business of campaigns and legislation. They affect our governing assumptions about how political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural systems work; what those systems should value; and what they mean .… These are not the comfortable old Cold War divisions of hawks and doves, egalitarians and individualists, left and right. Nor are they the one-dimensional labels of technophile and technophobe, optimist and pessimist, or libertarian and stasist that pundits sometimes grab to replace the old categories. They contain elements of those simpler classifications, but they are much richer, encompassing more aspects of life ─ more aspects of the emergent, complex future…”
NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPAL (TENETS) TO SEIZE PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS: (7) Reverse-engineering a gene and a bacterium or, better yet, the lucrative genome. (8) Guillotine the over-weighted status quo. (9) Learn how to add up ─ in your own brainy mind ─ colors, dimensions, aromas, encryptions, enigmas, phenomena, geometrical and amorphous in-motion shapes, methods, techniques, codes, written lines, symbols, contexts, locus, venues, semantic terms, magnitudes, longitudes, processes, tweets, “…knowledge-laden…” hunches and omniscient bliss, so forth. (10) Project your wisdom’s wealth onto communities of timeless-connected wikis.
BOOK(S): The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita. ISBN-13: 978–0812979770
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
We were talking recently with an executive in the adtech startup scene and got onto the subject of Bitcoin, and how much money was pouring into — and coming out of — the online cryptocurrency in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley area.
This source told us that he had heard about a guy who had made more than $200,000 from trading Bitcoin, and had used it to charter a rocket into space.
Wait, what?
Turns out, it’s true.
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FEBRUARY 06/2014 UPDATES [LIST]. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
Faraway Planets May Be Far Better for Life http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/superhabitable-planets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciam/space+%28Topic:+Space%29
Six Trends That Will Shape Consumer Behavior This Year http://www.forbes.com/sites/onmarketing/2014/02/04/six-trend…this-year/
Viewing Cancer as a Physics Problem Suggests New Treatments http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/viewing-cancer-as-…reatments/
Brain Scans Show Promise for Early Detection of Cognitive Problems http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-scans-show-p…-problems/
DNA-origami nanotubes self-align with self-organized nanoscale patterns to create nanoelectronic circuits http://www.kurzweilai.net/dna-origami-nanotubes-self-align-w…c-circuits
First single-molecule LED http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-single-molecule-led
Virus-free, cord-blood-derived stem cells repair retinal tissue in mice http://www.kurzweilai.net/virus-free-cord-blood-derived-stem…ue-in-mice
Will ‘borophene’ replace graphene as a better conductor of electrons? http://www.kurzweilai.net/will-borophene-replace-graphene-as…-electrons
The mind-blowing mathematics of sunflowers http://www.sciencedump.com/content/mind-blowing-mathematics-sunflowers
Miniature satellites utilize UDP-based multicasting over WIFI to relay data in a more secure and direct way. http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/outer-space-wifi-global-access.html#!usmgT
First Single-Molecule LED http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/nanotechno…lecule-led
The Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense 5.0 Opens to Public Comment https://www.sans.org/press/the-critical-security-controls-fo…omment.php
Six Simple Insights to Become a Better Innovator http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140203094739…-innovator
13 Predictions About The Future That Were Spectacularly Wrong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/03/wrong-predictions-a…97269.html
The future of wearables: 8 predictions from tech leaders http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57618181-94/the…h-leaders/
India’s first ‘school in the cloud’ aims to elevate kids http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57618332-1/i…vate-kids/
Nationalism could destroy global economy, warns Christine Lagarde http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/10615697/N…garde.html
“Perception” and “Prediction” Goal of Ford’s MIT/Stanford Automated Driving Partnership http://www.arisplex.com/analysis/perception-prediction-goal-…rtnership/
Johnson & Johnson Takes Newspaper Readers Back With Ads That Smell Like Baby Powder http://www.fastcocreate.com/3025969/johnson-johnson-takes-in…aby-powder
Scratch-Off Bus Stop Ads Reveal Hidden Art http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/02/scratch-off-these-bus-stop…idden-art/
How Architecture Could Shape Your Microbiome http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025782/asides/how-architecture-…microbiome
Expansion Boom in the UK from Overseas Internet Shoppers http://localuknews.co.uk/article/expansion-boom-in-the-uk-fr…t-shoppers
Twitter Is Hiring Commerce Specialists http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/03/twitter-is-hiring-commerce-specialists/
Teaching Surgery With Google Glass–Will This Actually Work? http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026021/teaching-surgery-with-goog…ually-work
Lightwaves used by neuroscientists to improve brain tumor surgery http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140129114612.ht…ceDaily%29
DARPA wants self-destructible computer chips http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/04/darpa-wants-self-dest…ter-chips/
Spare parts for fighter jets made by 3D printers http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/spare-parts-for-fighter-jets…45;3256664
A market for anti-NSA technology emerges http://www.lohud.com/usatoday/article/4656195
Construction’s Growing Role in Renewable Energy http://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/features/2014/01/13/316343.htm
CDM Jan 2014 is out for free – Welcome 2014: The Year of Mobile Spying and Privacy Concerns http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/21818/security/cdm-jan-2…cerns.html
Solving the Mobile Device Dilemma: InZero Systems offers 2-Tablets-in-1 http://www.prlog.org/12276372-solving-the-mobile-device-dile…-in-1.html
4 Things You Need to Know About Future NSA Director Michael Rogers http://mashable.com/2014/01/31/nsa-director-michael-rogers/
Bank Financing Played Big Role in Trade Collapse http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/31/bank-financing-pla…-collapse/
What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/02/what-we-talk-about-when-we-…e-in-tech/
Al-Qaida Cuts Ties with Syrian Rebel Group http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/al-qaida-cuts-ties-syrian-rebel-group/
House Approves Bill on WMD Medical Countermeasures Expenditures http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/house-approves-bill-authorizi…rmeasures/
Moscow Agrees To Process Uzbekistan’s Spent Nuclear Fuel http://article.wn.com/view/2014/02/04/Moscow_Agrees_to_Proce…lear_Fuel/
Top 13 Cyber Security predictions for 2014… http://techday.com/it-brief/news/top-13-cyber-security-predi…14/174862/
Cyber Security Market Forecast 2014–2024 http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/cyber-security-mar…87631.html
Obama hooks up new school broadband plan http://www.zdnet.com/obama-hooks-up-new-school-broadband-plan-7000025964/
Sailors allegedly cheated on nuclear reactor tests http://www.stripes.com/
Secret Service urges lawmakers to do more on cyber crime http://news.yahoo.com/secret-urges-u-lawmakers-more-cyber-cr…ector.html
As Cyber Crime Matures, More Hacked Accounts Expected http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2014/02/03/as-cyber-cr…-expected/
Cyber-defence boss joins security company, warns: ‘You can’t keep a determined adversary out’ http://www.zdnet.com/cyber-defence-boss-joins-security-compa…000025931/
Military Force vs. Diplomacy: Can You Have One Without the Other? http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/01/military-force-vs-di…f=d-skybox
Nation Faces Many Threats, Intelligence Chief Says http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121608
Change Agents: William Li’s robot wants to police you http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/26/knightscope-k5…t/4018047/
Troubleshooting TBI: How to Beat the Odds http://military-fitness.military.com/2014/02/troubleshooting…-odds.html
Narratives in the analytics era http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2014/2/4/5360412/nhl-analytics-narratives-media
Rural carriers start connecting customers to doctors via mobile video chat http://gigaom.com/2014/02/04/rural-carriers-start-connecting…ideo-chat/
Out in the Open: Man Creates One Programming Language to Rule Them All http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/julia/
From Secondary Intelligence Shortage to Secondary Intelligence Surplus http://www.clearci.com/blog/bid/193744/From-Secondary-Intell…ce-Surplus
The networked car is no longer just an idea; it will be mandated in future vehicles http://gigaom.com/2014/02/03/the-networked-car-is-no-longer-…-vehicles/
Why the only thing better than big data is bigger data http://qz.com/169206/why-the-only-thing-better-than-big-data-is-bigger-data/
QUOTATION: “…Thirty-five years ago, psychologist and visionary Dr. Abraham Maslow warned, ‘life is moving far more rapidly now than ever before in the rate of growth of facts, knowledge, techniques, and inventions. We need a different kind of human being able to life in a world that changes perpetually, who has been educated to be comfortable with change and situations in which he has absolutely no forewarning. The society that can turn out those people will survive. Societies which do not will die.’…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK: Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae. ISBN-13: 978–0312367077
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk Management Tranformative Futurist
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FEBRUARY 05/2014 UPDATES [LIST]. By Mr. Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
Do autistic brains create more information at rest or do they have weaker connectivity — or both?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/do-autistic-brains-create-more-inf…ty-or-both
‘Electronic tongue’ identifies brands of beer with 81.9% accuracy
http://www.kurzweilai.net/electronic-tongue-identifies-brand…9-accuracy
Bodily maps of emotions
http://www.kurzweilai.net/bodily-maps-of-emotions
Antibiotic ‘smart bomb’ can target specific strains of bacteria
http://www.kurzweilai.net/antibiotic-smart-bomb-can-target-s…f-bacteria
Trends and Predictions: How the Future Looks Like for Web Design in 2014
Trends and Predictions: How the Future Looks Like for Web Design in 2014
Credit cards of the future: 4 exciting trends
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/credit-cards-of-the-future-4-e…z2sMsGbooH
The 5 foods best-suited for 3D printing
http://www.fooddive.com/news/the-5-foods-best-suited-for-3d-printing/222556/
Nature is Not Human-Centric
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2014/01/nature-is-not-human-centric/
Your Brain Is Fine-Tuning Its Wiring Throughout Your Life
http://myscienceacademy.org/2014/02/03/your-brain-is-fine-tu…9896376047]&action_type_map=[%22og.likes%22]&action_ref_map=[]
The World’s Smallest Engine Runs on a Single Atom
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/extre…m-16451781
Guest column: Constituent care — Are government contact centers ready for the generational flood?
http://fedscoop.com/guest-column-constituent-care-government…SY.twitter
Searching for Life on Earth-Like Planets May Be a Mistake, Need to Consider Superhabitable Planets
Searching for Life on Earth-Like Planets May Be a Mistake, Need to Consider Superhabitable Planets
Survey says more attention being paid to data privacy, but still a ways to go
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/013114-survey-says-mor…ign=buffer
Quantum engineers make a major step towards a scalable quantum computer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/quantum-engineers-make-a-major-ste…m-computer
Was There A Beginning Of Time And Will There Be An End Of Time?
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/timeslowingdown.php?utm_source…vEN9LTSmHd
DHS has become the epicenter for government cybersecurity
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/32882?c=cyber_security
THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: Official Trailer
http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/89414/the-future-of-the-mind/
What the Internet of Things Will Mean for CIOs
http://www.cio.com/article/747634/What_the_Internet_of_Things_Will_Mean_for_CIOs
Why predictive maintenance is more relevant today than ever before
http://www.simafore.com/blog/bid/204618/Why-predictive-maint…ver-before
Stanford scientists put free text-analysis tool on the web
http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/stanford-sc…s-tool-web
Dangerous ideas: About that Princeton Facebook study — wrong, but not entirely crazy
http://which-50.com/post/75339864941/dangerous-ideas-about-t…book-study
Personal Banking and the Data-Driven Approach
http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/personal-bankin…e=activity
20 Lessons Enterprise CIOs Can Learn from Supercomputing
http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-11-12/20_lesso…uting.html
Big data misused to justify vaccination
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/big-data-mi…accination
First Single-Molecule LED
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/nanotechno…lecule-led
Employment in Renewable Energy Sector Reaches 5.7 Million Globally
http://www.irena.org/News/Description.aspx?NType=A&mnu=cat&P…ews_ID=351
The World Has Deep Areas of Expertise. We Need Agility and Context
http://bigthink.com/big-think-edge/the-world-has-deep-areas-…nk+Main%29
Marc Andreessen Has A Great Answer For Why Bitcoin Matters
http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-on-why-bitcoi…2014-1
Motorola Patents Electronic Telepathy
http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/01/14/electronic-telepathy/
New Solar Cells Get the Blues in a Good Way
A window to the future of research
http://www.mpg.de/7865824/Science_Tunnel
Surface map of a brown dwarf
http://www.mpg.de/7870755/surface-map-brown-dwarf
The future of oil supply
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2014/2006.xhtml
The Human enhancement and the future of work project
http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/human-enhancement/workshop-report/
Whole-genome sequence of a flatfish provides insights into ZW sex chromosome evolution and adaptation to a benthic lifestyle
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2890.html
Scientists reading fewer papers for first time in 35 years
http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-reading-fewer-papers-f…rs-1.14658
Elsevier opens its papers to text-mining
http://www.nature.com/news/elsevier-opens-its-papers-to-text-mining-1.14659
Top UK university pledges reform to ‘change the culture’ of its animal research
Top UK university pledges reform to ‘change the culture’ of its animal research
Challenging Israel
Pruning Synapses Improves Brain Connections
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39055/…nnections/
Science Cartoonist Doesn’t Draw “Funny Style”
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39033/…ny-Style-/
Opinion: The Burden of Proof
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39053/…-of-Proof/
The Dilemma of Space Debris
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/the-d…ace-debris
Flights of Fancy in Avian Evolution
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/fligh…-evolution
How to Fight Back Against Antibiotic Resistance
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/how-t…resistance
Ocean Acidification: The Other Climate Change Issue
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/ocean…ange-issue
QUOTATION: “…The flattening of the world is going to be hugely disruptive to both traditional and developed societies. The weak will fall further behind faster. The traditional will feel the force of modernization much more profoundly. The new will get turned into old quicker. The developed will be challenged by the underdeveloped much more profoundly. I worry, because so much political stability is built on economic stability, and economic stability is not going to be a feature of the flat world. Add it all up and you can see that the disruptions and going to come faster and harder. No one is immune ─ not me, not you, not Microsoft. WE ARE ENTERING AN ERA OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION ON STEROIDS. Dealing with flatism is going to be a challenge of a whole new dimension even if your country has a strategy. But if you don’t have a strategy at all, well, again, you’ve warned…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK: The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business by Arie De Geus
ISBN-13: 978–1857881851
Regards,
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FEBRUARY 03/2014 UPDATES. By Mr.Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
Maps showing which parts of the world would be flooded if all the world’s ice melted
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map
3-D printing takes shape
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/manufacturing/3-d_printing_…k-oth-1401
40 more maps that explain the world
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/13…the-world/
The Future of Space-Age Management
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
Race Is On to Find Life Under Antarctic Ice
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121218-antar…vironment/
Google sets up artificial intelligence ethics board to curb the rise of the robots
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2548355/Googl…obots.html
WORLD HUNGER: A CRISIS NOW AND A CATASTROPHE IN 2050?
http://www.economistinsights.com/sustainability-resources/ev…he%20World
40 charts that explain the world
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/15/4…the-world/
Assignment Remix: Intern-preneurs and Building Bold Thinking
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/01/assignment-remix-entre…ship-work/
The 3rd Citizen Cyberscience Summit: Feb 20 — 22, 2014
http://cybersciencesummit.org/
Waypoint 2 Space Trains Passengers For Commercial Launches
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/01/29/waypoint-2-…-launches/
Megacity Tips from Europe’s Highest Town as Davos Debates Future
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-26/megacity-ti…uture.html
Student-built satellite sends data from space
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-student-built-satellite-space.html
How the Dream Chaser was built
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-video-chaser-built.html
How Is Business Intelligence Being Used Differently in Asia?
http://www.idgconnect.com/blog-abstract/5387/how-is-business…ently-asia
Stumbling Blocks That Faceplant Security Analytics Programs
http://www.darkreading.com/stumbling-blocks-that-faceplant-security/240165754
Bio-printing human parts will spark ethical, regulatory debate
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245834/Bio_printing_…ory_debate
Bioprinting human organs and tissue: Get ready for the great 3D printer debate
http://www.zdnet.com/bioprinting-human-organs-and-tissue-get…000025730/
China Emerges Tanzania’s Major Investor
http://www.ventures-africa.com/2014/01/china-emerges-as-tanz…um=twitter
How We Increased Productivity on the Shop Floor
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/how-we-increased-pr…iness&_r=1
Eve Online virtual war ‘costs $300,000′ in damage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25944837?ocid=socialflow_twitter#
Millions experiencing Arctic chill, new snow
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/millions-experiencing-arctic-chill-new-snow/
Google Still Wins by Selling Motorola for Cheap
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/01/google-moto/?cid=co17808934
There’s a giant robot directing traffic in Congo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/01/3…-in-congo/
The Link Between Viral Content And Emotional Intelligence
http://www.fastcompany.com/3025474/leadership-now/the-link-b…Company%29
Scientists Create Map of Solar System’s Asteroids
http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-map-solar-system-asteroids-01731.html
Hackers, spies, threats and the US spies’ budget
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25933791
Sparking innovation
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/sparking-innovation/
NASA Instruments on European Comet Spacecraft Begin Countdown
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/inbrief/2014/01/2…z2s912yA9p
Media Relations: Why The Economist Thinks We Have It Wrong
http://socialmediatoday.com/ginidietrich/2120391/media-relat…ite_tweets
How Your Internal Organs Could Power Implanted Devices
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/med-tech/how-…6??src=rss
7 Takeaways From Google’s Sale Of Motorola To Lenovo
http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2014/01/30/7-ta…ium=social
Mad for mapping: 6 projects that change the way you see data. What lessons can geography teach your business?
http://www.itworld.com/slideshow/128479/mad-mapping-6-projec…ata-382783
Trendspotting: 6 mapping trends that are good for business
http://m.itworld.com/big-data/382674/trendspotting-how-mappi…695409%3D1
Google’s New A.I. Ethics Board Might Save Humanity From Extinction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/google-ai_n_4683343…=FullStory
Russian Coders, Ukrainian Cybercriminal, Mexican Smugglers, And The Largest Cybercrime In History
http://www.ibtimes.com/russian-coders-ukrainian-cybercrimina…ry-1547854
African banks investigated for cybercrime complicity
http://www.cfoworld.com/technology/80728/african-banks-inves…ccS6U.dpuf
Will the Next Industrial Revolution Be Bigger than the First? Will Geospatial Technology be Part of It?
http://geospatial-solutions.com/will-the-next-industrial-rev…art-of-it/
New Patent Mapping System Helps Find Innovation Pathways
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2014/01/14/new-patent-mapping-sys…n-pathways
America’s Most Promising Companies: The Top 25 Of 2014
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2014/01/22/americas-most…5-of-2014/
Solving the Mobile Device Dilemma: InZero Systems offers 2-Tablets-in-1
http://www.prlog.org/12276372-solving-the-mobile-device-dile…-in-1.html
What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech
What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech
Emerging markets: Locus of extremity | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21595485…-extremity
Climate change research is globally skewed
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2014/01/climate-change-research-is-globally-skewed/
Towards the circular economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains
http://reports.weforum.org/toward-the-circular-economy-accel…ly-chains/
QUOTATION: “…Our world tomorrow will be utterly different, in ways we cannot even conceive…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK: Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics by Paul Ormerod
ISBN-13: 978–0470089194
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
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by Miriam Kramer — Space.com
Do you want to fly on a suborbital space plane? What about a rocket launch all they way into orbit? A new commercial spaceflight training company wants to help you develop the right stuff for flying to space.
Waypoint 2 Space — a Houston-based company aimed at helping commercial astronauts train for spaceflight — just received Federal Aviation Administration safety approval for their plan to train would-be astronauts. Officials with the company hope to start training commercial spaceflyers for private trips to space in spring of this year. People holding tickets aboard a private spacecraft or space fans interested in learning how to fly to space are eligible to purchase a training package.
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www.FUTURE-OBSERVATORY.blogspot.com JANUARY/30/2014 HEADLINES. By Mr. Andres Agostini
Cancer Researchers Identify New Drug to Inhibit Breast Cancer
Cancer Researchers Identify New Drug to Inhibit Breast Cancer
Russia, US to join forces against space threats
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_29/Russia-US-to-join-f…eats-1145/
The rise of artificial intelligence
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-ne…317g3.html
MIT and Harvard release working papers on open online courses
http://www.kurzweilai.net/mit-and-harvard-release-working-pa…-282009765
13 Quotes That Show Why Libertarian Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Is A Scary Genius
http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-quotes-2014-1?op=1#ixzz2rr4DD75T
Quantum cloud simulates magnetic monopole
http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-cloud-simulates-magnetic-monopole-1.14612
North Korea possesses two-thirds of the world’s rare earths
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/01/24/north-korea-possesses-tw…re-earths/
Recent discovery of quantum vibrations in microtubules inside brain neurons corroborates controversial theory of consciousness
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/01/21/recent-discovery-of-quan…ciousness/
The internet population in China hit 618 million in 2013 with 81% connected via mobile internet
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/01/20/the-internet-population-…-internet/
The Bitcoin ATM Has a Dirty Secret: It Needs a Chaperone
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/bitcoin_atm/
Can Science Save Modern Art?
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025595/asides/can-science-save-modern-art
Welcome to the 2020s (Future Timeline Events 2020–2029)
2070–2079 timeline
http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2070-2079.htm
Lemur Studio Design develops mine detector in a shoe
http://www.gizmag.com/lemur-studio-saveonelife/30569/
CERN experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen atoms for hyperfine study
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-cern-antihydrogen-atoms-hyperfine.html
Architects build the jellyfish house around a floating pool
wiel arets architects build the jellyfish house around a floating pool
Monitoring Drugs Flowing in the Bloodstream
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/01/monitoring-drugs-flowing-bloodstream
$1.7 million personal submarine lets you ‘fly’ underwater
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/17-million-personal-submarine-le…nderwater/
Computing with silicon neurons: Scientists use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140128094539.htm
10 technology trends to watch in 2014
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/10-technology-trends-to-watch-2014/
The year ahead: Hot ICT tech trends in 2014
http://www.marsdd.com/2014/01/28/year-ahead-hot-ict-tech-trends-2014/
5 Futuristic Trends That Will Shape Business And Culture Today
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3025012/futurist-forum/5-futurist…ture-today
Stephen Hawking says there is no such thing as black holes, Einstein spinning in his grave
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/455880/Step…-his-grave
Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change
http://jimidisu.com/?p=6013
Celebrating water cooperation: Red Sea to Dead Sea
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/01/celebrating…03800.html
7 Trends For 2014
http://blogs.sap.com/innovation/innovation/seven-trends-2014-01242649
8 Quick Ways to Unlock Your Creative Potential
https://www.openforum.com/articles/8-quick-ways-to-unlock-yo…strecent-3
Exploring Mars Habitability – Opportunity Updates Our Understanding of Our Planetary Neighbour
Exploring Mars Habitability – Opportunity Updates Our Understanding of Our Planetary Neighbour
DAILY QUOTE: By Michael Anissimov utters, “…One of the biggest flaws in the common conception of the future is that the future is something that happens to us, not something we create…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK:
Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human by Joel Garreau
ISBN-13: 978–0767915038
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
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Posted in lifeboat, nanotechnology, science, space, space travel, transportation
We have been using the same propellant system for rockets since the Chinese fire arrows in 1000 A.D. A gas is expanded in a tube to generate force. Enough gas and force and you can break the bonds of the earth.
From gunpowder to liquid propellants to solid rocket boosters, nothing except size and volume has changed.
New proposed systems such as nuclear engines, magnetic rail guns, ion engines are all options that have not been shown to be functional at this point in time.
Our popular fantasy TV and movies all have some unspecified, powerful propulsion system that can easily break our gravity well to send us to outer space.
It takes energy to get lift and higher energy systems generate more lift, but as you move up the periodic table, you have waste products that are toxic downstream from the output.
Sure, di-lithium crystals are wonderful and the “boop-boop-boop” of the Jetson’s car are bound to be a huge source of cheap, safe, unlimited power, someday, in some future time, maybe.
We have the materials available now to bring cheap, effective access to space for more than the rich or lucky.
Helium and hydrogen and, of course, hot air has been used for a number of years to take sensors and toys to the upper atmosphere.
When the atmospheric pressure is decreased below the tensile strength of the shell, the balloon bursts and the device plummets to earth.
With a few modifications, such as nanoparticle bonded fabric, we can take a balloon system to the next level.
Using Hydrogen for lift (careful, explosive), take the system to the upper reaches. When the balloon ascent stops, pump in oxygen (from on-board cylinders) and fire off a small rocket engine.
With enough boost, the empty shell can be switched to solar sail to take the payload anywhere you want.
Of course, this is a radical, untested system, but if it works, it could open up space flight to the rest of the world and we can start mining the di-lithium crystals our movies tell us will replace all other propulsion systems.
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