Nice tribute.
Marvin Minsky at One Laptop per Child office, Cambridge Mass. 2008 (credit: Bcjordan/Wikimedia Commons)
Ray Kurzweil, January 25, 2016
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Jan 26, 2016
We Need a New Government Agency to Oversee the Search for Immortality
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, transhumanism
My new story: The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is holding medicine back and limiting your lifespan as we enter the Transhumanist age. There are options.
The FDA is holding America back as we enter the transhumanist age.
Jan 26, 2016
Will Humans Be Obsolete After The New Industrial Revolution?
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: employment, futurism
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The world has undergone three industrial revolutions that have dramatically impacted the way we live. So what will happen during the fourth industrial revolution?
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Jan 26, 2016
Quantum histories get all tangled up — By Andrew Grant | Science News
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: human trajectories, quantum physics, science
“Quantum mechanics, a new experiment suggests, requires that multiple adventures occur simultaneously to create a consistent account of history.”
Jan 26, 2016
The Race to Build Teeny Tiny Satellite Thrusters
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
You might not know it, but you’re really just one Kickstarter away from launching your own satellite. CubeSats and other small, cheap spacecraft platforms have reduced the cost of getting to orbit by a huge margin, allowing for a more democratized age of space exploration.
As exciting as this populist spaceflight movement is, there is still one major technological hurdle it has to clear before it will meet its full potential: Propulsion.
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Jan 25, 2016
Artificial Gravity is Critical to Space Exploration — So Why is it Being Ignored?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space travel
Human missions to Mars will be difficult without artificial gravity, so why is this basic principle ignored?
Jan 25, 2016
The Rise of the Artificially Intelligent Hedge Fund
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: finance, robotics/AI
Last week, Ben Goertzel and his company turned on a hedge fund that makes all its stock trades using AI—no human intervention required.
Jan 25, 2016
Big Data And Quantum Computers
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: energy, internet, nanotechnology, neuroscience, quantum physics, robotics/AI, singularity, space travel, supercomputing, wearables
Luv the whole beautiful picture of a Big Data Quantum Computing Cloud. And, we’re definitely going to need it for all of our data demands and performance demands when you layer in the future of AI (including robotics), wearables, our ongoing convergence to singularity with nanobots and other BMI technologies. Why we could easily exceed $4.6 bil by 2021.
From gene mapping to space exploration, humanity continues to generate ever-larger sets of data—far more information than people can actually process, manage, or understand.
Machine learning systems can help researchers deal with this ever-growing flood of information. Some of the most powerful of these analytical tools are based on a strange branch of geometry called topology, which deals with properties that stay the same even when something is bent and stretched every which way.
Jan 25, 2016
NASA to develop humanoid robot to help in deep space missions
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
So, here is a question that many AI experts are and have been asking themselves for a while; “as humans create robots and have other humans; what will the world look like when Humanoid Robots and other types of robots create their own?”
NASA is in the process of developing a humanoid robot that could help astronauts in risky and extremely hazardous expeditions in the future.
The six-feet tall, 131.5 kg heavy humanoid robot called R5 will work as a ready-to-assist machine in every dangerous task of the utmost importance during long-lasting journeys beyond the Earth, Astrowatch.net reported on Sunday. The robot was previously known as Valkyrie.
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