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Aug 31, 2016
We are already cyborgs
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: cyborgs, Elon Musk, neuroscience, robotics/AI
Elon Musk talks about Neural Lace.
Elon Musk discusses his views on AI integration in every day life.
Aug 31, 2016
Physics Confronts Its Heart of Darkness
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: cosmology, physics
Cracks are showing in the dominant explanation for dark matter. Is there anything more plausible to replace it?
By Lee Billings on August 31, 2016
Aug 31, 2016
China Readies Next ‘Heavenly Palace’ for Mid-September Launch
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: satellites
China is readying its next piloted space mission, a multifaceted undertaking that will lay the foundation for the country to build a space station in Earth orbit in the 2020s.
Both Tiangong-2 (whose name means “Heavenly Palace”) and the piloted Shenzhou-11 spacecraft are now undergoing checkout at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
Tiangong-2, which is scheduled to launch in mid-September, is a true “space lab” that will verify key technologies for building China’s space station, according to its chief designer, Zhu Zongpeng. [Latest News About China’s Space Program].
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Aug 31, 2016
What is Transhumanism?
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, robotics/AI, transhumanism
A nice story out on transhumanism:
An idea that has frequently been used by science fiction is now starting to gain widespread attention by futurists, scientists, philosophers, and even the general public; the idea that the human species needs to use either artificial augmentations or gene manipulation to usher in the next stage of evolution. That idea is transhumanism.
But why would humans want to willingly accelerate or initiate the next step in evolution? The positives of transhumanism are lofty goals that mankind has sought after for years, goals such as a world without diseases, ignorance, or even death. The only question, and an extremely important one, is how much is humanity willing to modify itself to attain those goals, and could the end result still be considered human? Some sources even suggest that in order to discuss individuals who are radically different from modern-day humans, the term “posthuman” must be used. Transhumanists who alter or augment themselves would theoretically at some point become a posthuman.
Aug 31, 2016
Elena Milova speaking in support of OncoSENS crowdfunding campaign
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4U6qvNt81E&feature=youtu.be
The MMTP has recorded this film in support of SENS Research and their quest to find solutions to ALT cancer.
To support OncoSENS project with a donation click the link:
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Aug 31, 2016
Prospecting for Asteroid Resources — Deep Space Industries
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0vkqQN44I4&feature=youtu.be
http://deepspaceindustries.com/prospector-1/
Prospector-1, the world’s first commercial interplanetary mining mission, will fly to and rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid to determine its value as a source of space resources.
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Aug 31, 2016
Welcome to the digital health revolution
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, computing, economics, government, health, information science
Blended Reality is a versatile concept that can be extended from the physical and digital worlds to the chemical and biological world. In the convergence of healthcare diagnostics and digital health, it can play a fundamental role: the transformation of human biology, real-world parameters into digital data to obtain contextual health information and enable personalized drug treatments. The fusion of microfluidics, edge computing and commercial mobility with diagnostics, digital health, big data, precision medicine, and theranostics will disrupt existing, established structures in our healthcare system. This will allow new models of partnerships among technology and pharmaceutical industries (see fig. 1).
From the very beginning of mankind, healthcare was purely empirical and mostly a combination of empirical and spiritual skills. While access to cures was exclusive and very limited, the success rate was not very high in most cases. During the Renaissance a systematic exploration of natural phenomena and physiology laid the scientific foundation of modern medicine. A real breakthrough in quality and access to healthcare services has taken place in the past 150 years as an aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. It brought significant advances in science as well as societal changes: expanding government-granted access to the establishing working classes as the main human capital of the industrialization process in the Western Hemisphere. Keeping a business employees healthy became an indispensable prerequisite to increasing the national economic output and well-being on a societal level.
Inspiring stuff from Michael Greve!
Michael Greve delivers a talk at Rejuvenation Biotechnology, a SENS Research Foundation Conference. This event was held August 16, 2016.
Aug 31, 2016
Made in Space wins the Singularity University Grand Challenge in space #gsummit
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: singularity, space
Made in Space has won the Singularity University Grand Challenge in space.
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