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May 25, 2017
The Rocket Startup That’s About to Eat Elon Musk’s Lunch
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: satellites
Rocket Lab is aiming to put small satellites in low Earth orbit at a fraction of the cost of even SpaceX.
With its Thursday announcement of a successful launch of the Electron rocket, a small New Zealand start-up changed the private space race.
May 25, 2017
1 Bitcoin (BTC) will be worth $100,000???
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: bitcoin, internet
Bitcoin has terrible UX…in our journey into tech we purchased a few pounds worth on a paper wallet on a bitcoin ATM machine to experiment with and gain familiarity with this new form of internet money.
The paper wallet has an illegibly long code that needs to be typed in or QR code scanned in to get the part bitcoin uploaded to an online usable form of bitcoin.
Bitcoins can be lost because of this bad UX/UI issue.
May 25, 2017
Zoltan Istvan: How the Immortality Bus Changed Transhumanism Forever
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: education, geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism
In early 2015, when transhumanist US Presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan announced he would transform a 38-foot bus into a giant coffin and drive it across America to deliver a Transhumanist Bill of Rights to the US Capitol, many in the transhumanism community reacted with contempt and ridicule. Two years later, the Immortality Bus–created as a provocative symbol of resistance against death–has become one of the most recognized futurist projects in the world. The New York Times called the bus “the great brown sarcaphogus of the American highway…a metaphor of life itself.”
Today feature films, documentaries, and even a likely final home in a major museum are being worked on for the Immortality Bus. Hear Zoltan Istvan describe his captaining of the “coffin bus”, and learn what really happened during this historic journey.
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May 25, 2017
Removing Net Neutrality: The Nightmare (Future A to Z)
Posted by Johnny Boston in category: futurism
The recent efforts to remove Net Neutrality have given many a sense of impending doom we are soon to face. What happens to an Internet without Net Neutrality? Advocates have a vision of the possible results — and it is quite the nightmare! In this segment of Future A to Z, The Galactic Public Archives takes a cheeky, yet compelling perspective on the issue.
May 25, 2017
DARPA Picks Boeing To Build Its New Space Plane
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: military, satellites
The research agency hopes its XS-1 jumpstarts a whole new industry of very-low-cost satellite launches.
Boeing did such a good job plotting out the commercial future of a reusable satellite-launching plane that they’re going to get to build it — and just maybe, launch a whole new low-cost satellite industry.
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May 25, 2017
NASA Just Fast-Tracked Its Mission to Explore a $10,000 Quadrillion Metal Asteroid
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: economics, space
The science community just figured out why we wont actually be doing space mining, until capitalism is no longer a factor anyways.
It might have just pushed back its manned mission to Mars, but NASA just fast-tracked a planned journey to 16 Psyche — an asteroid made almost entirely of nickel-iron metal.
Estimated to contain $10,000 quadrillion in iron alone, if we could somehow mine Psyche’s minerals and bring them back to Earth, it would collapse our comparatively puny global economy of $78 trillion many times over. Fortunately for the economic stability of our planet, NASA plans on looking but not extracting.
May 24, 2017
I’ve just returned from some busy travels and I’m still dealing with my own father’s recent death, so I’m a bit late with this post, but legendary futurist Jacque Fresco passed away last week
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: economics, futurism
He was 101 years old. I had the honor to meet Jacque and Roxanne Meadows last year at The Venus Project in Florida. I wrote an extensive article for Vice Motherboard on Jacque and the Resource-based economy: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/eliminating-money…chnoutopia And Now This Future did a video on my visit with him that now has 14 million views and over 180,000 Facebook shares: https://www.facebook.com/NowThisFuture/videos/1500983249942850/ I’m grateful I met Jacque. He was an amazing person! And his important work will live on.
May 24, 2017
New Research Points to a Genetic Switch That Can Let Our Bodies Talk to Electronics
Posted by Alexander Rodionov in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, robotics/AI
- Our bodies are biologically based and therefore are not equipped to communicate with electronics efficiently. New research could make it possible to genetically engineer our cells to be able to communicate with electronics.
- The development has the potential to allow us to eventually build apps that autonomously detect and treat disease.
Microelectronics has transformed our lives. Cellphones, earbuds, pacemakers, defibrillators – all these and more rely on microelectronics’ very small electronic designs and components. Microelectronics has changed the way we collect, process and transmit information.