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Nov 2, 2017
Transhumanism: A technological “worldview”
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: computing, mobile phones, transhumanism
A local ABC story on #transhumanism:
NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) — From the minute we wake up until we go to sleep, we’re constantly surrounded by technology.
Computers, cell phones, iPads, they’ve become ingrained in our everyday lives.
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Nov 2, 2017
Hidden structure found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: particle physics
The Great Pyramid of Giza has been shrouded in mystery for millennia, but now a long-held secret of its structure might be known thanks to particle physics.
A narrow void lying deep within the ancient Wonder of the World has been found by scientists using cosmic-ray based imaging.
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Nov 2, 2017
‘Monster’ planet discovery challenges formation theory
Posted by John Gallagher in category: space
A giant planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the University of Warwick taking a leading role.
New research, led by Dr Daniel Bayliss and Professor Peter Wheatley from the University of Warwick’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, has identified the unusual planet NGTS-1b — the largest planet compared to the size of its companion star ever discovered in the universe.
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Krista Kim, the self-identified founder of the Techism movement-circa 2014-undergirds her process and seeks to encompass other artists working with tech within the Techism philosophy. “The contribution of art using digital technology will create a more connected and humane culture,” Kim asserts.
Artist Krista Kim seeks to raise digital consciousness through Techism.
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Nov 1, 2017
NASA reveals its Mars 2020 rover will have 23 ‘eyes’
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: futurism, space
Nov 1, 2017
North Korean hackers steal warship blueprints from South
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: cybercrime/malcode, engineering, military
South Korea is ‘almost 100 per cent certain’ that North Korean hackers have stolen the blueprints for their warships and submarines.
The despotic regime is thought to have taken the documents after hacking into Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd’s database in April last year.
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Nov 1, 2017
Iceland’s Biggest Volcano Is “Ready To Erupt” As Europe Faces A Disaster
Posted by John Gallagher in category: futurism
Nov 1, 2017
DERMALOG: Maldives Introduces Most Innovative ID Card
Posted by John Gallagher in category: innovation
Nov 1, 2017
Frankenstein in the Age of CRISPR-Cas9
Posted by John Gallagher in category: biotech/medical
The so-called “year without a summer,” 1816, was bleak, if not strangely gothic. Mount Tambora in Indonesia had erupted the year before, pitching volcanic ash into the atmosphere and obscuring the sun. Torrential rains pressed deep into the year, resulting in global crop failures. The birds quieted down by midday, as darkness descended, and for days at a time, a group of writers huddled by candlelight in a rented mansion on Lake Geneva. The dashing 23-year-old poet Percy Shelley and his 18-year-old companion, Mary, who had already taken to calling herself “Mrs. Shelley,” traveled to the lake to spend the summer with the poet Lord Byron. On the night of June 15, 1816, they read ghost stories aloud. And then, Byron suggested they each try their hand to write one.
Mary Shelley would write her stunning exegesis Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus in just under 11 months. She set forth to write a penny dreadful but instead wrote a stinging commentary on the times that came to her in a flash, a waking dream. A collision of forces discharged in her writing, and she produced something more than a ghost story—a “book of ideas.”
A scientist sets out to create a more perfect entity, only to have it backfire as the thing he creates gets out of control.
