Globe Staff – The Boston Globe Keeping your attention A growing body of research suggests noninvasive brain stimulation, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), may improve specific cognitive skills in healthy subjects. Put another way, a small intermittent shock to your brain might keep your attention from eroding throughout the day. Read More
Glasses-free 3-D projector
Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have steadily refined a design for a glasses-free, multiperspective, 3-D video screen, which they hope could provide a cheaper, more practical alternative to holographic video in the short term. Now they’ve designed a… Continue reading Glasses-free 3-D projector
Ageing: The girls who never grow older
By Virginia Hughes – BBC Future Richard Walker has been trying to conquer ageing since he was a 26-year-old free-loving hippie. It was the 1960s, an era marked by youth: Vietnam War protests, psychedelic drugs, sexual revolutions. The young Walker relished the culture of exultation, of joie de vivre, and yet was also acutely aware… Continue reading Ageing: The girls who never grow older
Is it possible to build an artificial superintelligence without fully replicating the human brain?
The technological singularity requires the creation of an artificial superintelligence (ASI). But does that ASI need to be modelled on the human brain, or is it even necessary to be able to fully replicate the human brain and consciousness digitally in order to design an ASI ? Animal brains and computers don’t work the same… Continue reading Is it possible to build an artificial superintelligence without fully replicating the human brain?
White Swan Update by Andres Agostini
White Paper – Market Research and Social Media in the 21st Century http://ciowhitepapers.com/owp/119/156 How Digital Currency Could End Corruption in Afghanistan http://www.wired.com/2014/05/how-digital-currency-could-end-corruption-in-afghanistan/ “Humans are lazy. People go from plausible suspicion to way overconfidence.” http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527756/lazy-humans-shaped-googles-new-autonomous-car/ Driverless Cars: Optional by 2024, Mandatory by 2044 http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/advanced-cars/driverless-cars-optional-by-2024-mandatory-by-2044?utm_content=buffer7dd6a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Winning in the Digital Channel: The E-Commerce Opportunity… Continue reading White Swan Update by Andres Agostini
Future Observatory, White Swan Update by Andres Agostini
What the future of work looks like http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/29/what-the-future-of-work-looks-like/ The first 21st Century Passenger Spacecraft – Dragon Version 2 is Unveiled http://www.21stcentech.com/21st-century-passenger-spacecraft-dragon-version-2-unveiled/ Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests http://www.space.com/25100-multiverse-cosmic-inflation-gravitational-waves.html Entanglement in a Quantum Annealing Processor https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021041 Learning http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/learning A trans-humanistic era http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/trans-humanistic-era Hyper-connected human http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/content/hyper-connected-human Google gets 12,000 requests to be… Continue reading Future Observatory, White Swan Update by Andres Agostini
Amazon Awarded Bitcoin-Related Cloud Computing Patent
Nermin Hajdarbegovic – Coin Desk E-commerce giant Amazon has been awarded a bitcoin-related cloud computing patent that envisions the use of digital currencies as payment for cloud computing services on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon’s cloud is by far the biggest remote computing service on the market. Market research firm Gartner estimates AWS annual revenue at… Continue reading Amazon Awarded Bitcoin-Related Cloud Computing Patent
Physicists use diamonds to reach quantum teleportation breakthrough
BY Philip Palermo – Endgadget Quantum teleportation promises a leap into the next great era of computing — but first we’ve got to get it working consistently. Scientists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft say they’ve managed to reliably teleport quantum info stored in one bit of diamond to another sitting three meters away… Continue reading Physicists use diamonds to reach quantum teleportation breakthrough
The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Update, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan
The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Update, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan ‘Nanodaisies’ deliver more powerful drug cocktail to cancer cells http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanodaisies-deliver-more-powerful-drug-cocktail-to-cancer-cells A research agenda for potential ecological risks of synthetic biology http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-research-agenda-for-potential-ecological-risks-of-synthetic-biology How to make robots and self-driving cars think faster http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-make-robots-and-self-driving-cars-think-faster Google’s self-driving car prototype: no… Continue reading The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Update, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan
SpaceX unveils first commercial capsule capable of manned flight
By Jordan England-Nelson, Los Angeles Daily News The long-awaited presentation by Elon Musk, SpaceX’s billionaire CEO and founder of Tesla Motors, showcased the 12-year-old company’s engineering prowess with the flair of an Apple product release party. Starry-eyed engineers cheered and flashed their smartphone cameras inside SpaceX’s Hawthorne factory as Musk took the stage in a… Continue reading SpaceX unveils first commercial capsule capable of manned flight