Written By: Jason Dorrier – Singularity Hub In a recently released vision of the future, Thomson Reuters analysts predict solar power will be the dominant form of energy by 2025. Further, the report states genomic testing and manipulation will be common and lead to better prevention and treatment of diseases. Cancer treatments will be more targeted… Continue reading “The World in 2025″ Predicts Abundant Solar Power and Food, Tailored Drugs, Gene Therapies
Get Inside Whisper’s Secret Economy
By Austin Carr – Fast Company Michael Heyward is scouring the web for military secrets, though not of the Julian Assange variety. Over black tea at a dark hotel bar in downtown Los Angeles, Heyward and I sit next to each other, noses to a laptop as he searches on Whisper, the mobile service he… Continue reading Get Inside Whisper’s Secret Economy
Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
Amazon Asks FAA For Permission To Test Its Delivery Drones http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/10/amazon-asks-faa-for-permission-to-test-its-delivery-drones/ How DARPA’s Brain Chip Could Restore Lost Memories http://www.fastcompany.com/3032898/healthware/how-darpas-brain-chip-could-restore-lost-memories DARPA developing memory-restoring neural prosthesis http://www.cnet.com/news/darpa-developing-memory-restoring-neural-prosthesis/ BBC: The ultimate comeback: Bringing the dead back to life http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140704-i-bring-the-dead-back-to-life Use of Hydrogels to Replace Cartilage http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=11099 ACCENTURE: Healthcare IT: Top Five Digital Trends Fueling Disruption in Healthcare… Continue reading Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
Online anonymity, privacy, and longevity
Or: Relinquish your privacy if you want to live longer At first, it may appear strange to suggest that living longer has something to do with using pseudonyms online. However, it is true. I am suggesting that people who are well known online, those who are hyper-connected, and those who facilitate others to have access… Continue reading Online anonymity, privacy, and longevity
Making opinions matter: making headlines
.#democracy. #you. #indie. #webcontent. #contentmarketing. @HJBentham. Ever wanted to be the subject of international news, or to be recognized as an expert in your field? In the age of the web, both are relatively easy for anyone to accomplish – and it really matters. Thanks to digital culture, equal opportunity is becoming an unstoppable… Continue reading Making opinions matter: making headlines
Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
REUTERS: German court rules Motorola infringes antenna patent http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/09/us-motorola-patent-germany-idUSKBN0FE0UB20140709 REUTERS: Senate Intelligence Committee approves cybersecurity bill http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/08/us-usa-cybersecurity-congress-idUSKBN0FD2LG20140708 THE ATLANTIC: When These Experts Savage US. Drone Policy, It’s Time to Worry www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/when-even-these-experts-savage-obamas-drone-policy-its-time-to-worry/374132/ THE ATLANTIC: The Age of Erasable Books http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-monks-remixed-technology-in-the-middle-ages/373956/ THE ATLANTIC: The Military Doesn’t Want You to Quit Facebook and Twitter http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-military-doesnt-want-you-to-quit-facebook-and-twitter/373918/ THE GUARDIAN: Edward… Continue reading Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
It’s time we conserve the building blocks of life. http://ensia.com/voices/endangered-elements/ The human brain’s remarkably low power consumption, and how computers might mimic its efficiency http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/185984-the-human-brains-remarkably-low-power-consumption-and-how-computers-might-mimic-its-efficiency NASA’s new astronaut-replacing robots, powered by Google Tango smartphones, launch into space this week http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/185991-nasas-new-astronaut-replacing-robots-powered-by-google-tango-smartphones-launch-into-space-this-week Foxconn is attempting to replace its human workers with thousands of robots http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/185960-foxconn-is-attempting-to-replace-its-human-workers-with-thousands-of-robots Nanoparticles breach… Continue reading Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador White Swan Update and Published Amazon Author by Andres Agostini at www.amazon.com/author/agostini
The global-c “Catastrophe” in Physics
To elder children and young adults, it is a bonanza since everything becomes transparent. The “ugly” dependency of the speed of light on the local pull of gravity – that it is slowed in the vicinity of the sun (Shapiro) and comes to a standstill at the horizon of a black hole (Oppenheiumer) – is… Continue reading The global-c “Catastrophe” in Physics
Something is Amiss with Light in the Universe –“Photons May Be Coming from Some Exotic Unknown Source”
The Daily Galaxy The vast reaches of empty space between galaxies are bridged by tendrils of hydrogen and helium, which can be used as a precise “light meter.” In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of scientists finds that the light from known populations of galaxies and quasars is not… Continue reading Something is Amiss with Light in the Universe –“Photons May Be Coming from Some Exotic Unknown Source”
The Planet’s Biggest Water Supply Might Be Hidden 400 Miles Below the US
Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan – Gizmodo When most of us imagine what the mantle of the Earth is like, we see burning hot rock and magma (and maybe satan hanging out for good measure or something). But scientists have discovered evidence that all that rock may be hiding huge amounts of water—three times the volume of all… Continue reading The Planet’s Biggest Water Supply Might Be Hidden 400 Miles Below the US