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Jan 23, 2017
IBM Just Posted 5 Predictions About What Life Will Be Like in 2022
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI, space
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Technology giant IBM is known for of making bold predictions about the future, and it’s just announced its latest “5 in 5” list, highlighting the five innovations that they think will have the biggest impact on our lives over the next five years.
According to the company, in only a few years, we’re set to see huge developments in artificial intelligence (AI), ultra-powerful telescopes, smart sensors, and medical devices — with benefits ranging from healthcare and the environment, to our understanding of Earth and the Universe itself.
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Jan 23, 2017
9 Crazy Body Hacks That Give You Superhuman Powers
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: transhumanism
Jan 23, 2017
Scientists want to give the world a second chance at Caspian tigers
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: bioengineering
Jan 23, 2017
Improved Semisynthetic Organism Created
Posted by Montie Adkins in category: biotech/medical
“You could produce artificial proteins with unnatural amino acids,” he proposed. But the artificial proteins could be “not just to prep, pull out the cell, and purify as a drug, but to work within the cell to bestow it with new functions,” he added.
Researchers generate an organism that can replicate artificial base pairs indefinitely.
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Jan 23, 2017
Yes, the Eerie Carl Sagan Prediction That’s Going Viral Is Real
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: employment, futurism
Did Carl Sagan really warn about a time in the future when manufacturing jobs would slip away, when the average person would have virtually no control over their political lives, and when we would all cling to superstitions? Yes, Sagan did predict just that. The screenshot you may have seen floating around social media is real. And plenty of people are worried that Carl was talking about our era.
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Jan 23, 2017
Asteroid Mining Sounds Hard, Right? You Don’t Know the Half of It
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
Jan 23, 2017
Living longer in a decrepit body would be bad
Posted by Nicola Bagalà in categories: health, life extension
Answers to rejuvenation objections #1: The Tithonus Error.
We certainly agree on this one! Living longer when your body keeps falling apart would suck big time, but that is not what rejuvenation is about. In fact, it is about preventing that from happening, in the short and long runs alike.
I probably have made the above concept clear enough on the website as a whole, but then again dealing with it separately in the objections section may be a good idea. In case anyone hasn’t read the explanations on ageing and rejuvenation first and jumps directly to the answers to objections, they might not get the full picture and think we’re just trying to make people live longer without curing them of the ill health of old age.
The concern of more life in a sicker body is well illustrated by the greek myth of Tithonus. In short, Tithonus was a mortal who was in love with Eos, the titan of the dawn. She fancied him back, but they had a problem: As a deity, she was immortal, but Tithonus was not. One day he’d give up the ghost and their idilly would be broken. Thus, Eos pleaded with Zeus to make Tithonus immortal as well. Problem solved, right? Yeah, not really.
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