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Feb 11, 2014

The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, business, complex systems, computing, economics, education, engineering, ethics, futurism, information science, innovation, military, physics, robotics/AI, science, scientific freedom, security, singularity, space, supercomputing

FEBRUARY 13/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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Is your boss watching you? Surveillance device tracks employees’ movements in the office, sends details of conversations and even times their toilet breaks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552858/Workp…oilet.html

New software lets you mark places as off-limits for wearable camera gadgets like Google Glass.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523941/not-ok-glass/

Seeing as a Service. Forget Augmented Reality. What About Diminished Reality?
https://medium.com/futures-exchange/403771297f5f

Elon Musk plans to colonise Mars
http://futuretimeline.net/blog/2014/02/4.htm#.UvpE9oWGiHd

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Feb 11, 2014

An Anomaly in Science

Posted by in category: particle physics

Figure 25.5 of “Gravitation” – the famous bible of general relativity written in 1973 by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler – shows on page 667 two curves as a function of time, both describing an astronaut in-falling from a stationary outer point onto a black hole. The two time curves at first coincide horizontally on the left. Then the upper one decays essentially exponentially reaching the horizontal x-axis of the horizon only asymptotically after infinite time. The lower curve, after initially coinciding, deviates downwards gently to after picking up speed (in a curve like the frontal part of a shoe’s profile) reach the horizon after 15 days already.

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The lower curve is the proper time experienced by an astronaut falling onto a solar-mass black hole – the time it takes on the wristwatch to reach the horizon in free fall from a fixed outer position. The upper curve shows how this same in-falling process looks to an outside observer: infinitely elongated.

I am drawing your attention to this Figure in a famous book co-authored by my late friend John Wheeler because this figure – I claim – illustrates an error made by the whole physics community over many decades – notwithstanding the fact that the Figure is flawless.

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Feb 10, 2014

DARPA And The Pentagon Are Working On Tiny Brain Robots To Help Soldiers With Memory Loss

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

By — Geekosystem

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Not content with only building gigantic horror-bots that will one day rule your city with a literal iron fist, DARPA has teamed up with the Pentagon to get a little smaller - implantable-brain-robot smaller. Hopefully, this new project will help treat memory loss in soldiers injured in combat (and not turn them into weird DARPA-slavebots).

Though Medtronic Inc. (MDT) has already created robot brain implants to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s, not much work has gone into using these robots to restore memories lost in traumatic injuries. DARPA is using funding from President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative to develop implantable probes that could apply this same Medtronic science to memory loss.

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Feb 10, 2014

The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, existential risks, futurism, information science, innovation, law enforcement, nanotechnology, neuroscience, robotics/AI, science, scientific freedom, security, singularity, space, supercomputing, sustainability

FEBRUARY 12/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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X-ray imaging protein molecules at atomic resolution using a graphene cage
http://www.kurzweilai.net/x-ray-imaging-protein-molecules-at…phene-cage

Wearable ‘neurocam’ records scenes when it detects user interest
http://www.kurzweilai.net/wearable-neurocam-records-scenes-w…r-interest

Searching space dust for minute quantities of life’s ingredients
http://www.kurzweilai.net/searching-space-dust-for-minute-qu…ngredients

For landmine detection, Bogota designers think with their feet (1:52)
http://uk.reuters.com/video/2014/02/09/for-landmine-detectio…annel=4000

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Feb 9, 2014

Bitcoin company offers stock denominated in bitcoin

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, business, finance

By Christopher Mims — Quartz

Startup Bitcoin Kinetics, which aims to create hardware that can allow vending machines to accept bitcoin, is offering 10 billion shares of common stock on the website Cryptostocks. This isn’t your typical IPO—Cryptostocks, where Bitcoin Kinetics will be “listed,” describes itself as both a crowd funding platform and a place to “buy shares… and earn dividends.” It’s not clear what the legal status of Cryptostocks is, since it’s not licensed or registered as an exchange. One commenter called Cryptostocks “another of the play-pretend Bitcoin financial exchanges.” (We reached out to Cryptostocks for comment, and will update this when we hear back from them.)

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Feb 9, 2014

Newsweek Becomes First Magazine to Accept Bitcoin …PR Pitches

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, business

By Zach Schonfeld — Newsweek
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Spurred by a host of recent converts to the peer-to-peer digital currency, Newsweek has become the first magazine to accept Bitcoin PR pitches. The digital currency’s visibility in popular retailers remains modest, but its presence in our email inboxes has frankly never been higher.

If the volume of recent press releases is any indication, Newsweek will be shortly accompanied by the first Indian e-Commerce store, Swiss dentist, HFT service provider, and public university to embrace the currency form.

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Feb 9, 2014

6 People Have Paid $250,000 In Bitcoin To Ride This Rocket Ship Into Space

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, space travel

We were talking recently with an executive in the adtech startup scene and got onto the subject of Bitcoin, and how much money was pouring into — and coming out of — the online cryptocurrency in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley area.

This source told us that he had heard about a guy who had made more than $200,000 from trading Bitcoin, and had used it to charter a rocket into space.

Wait, what?

Turns out, it’s true.
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Feb 9, 2014

The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

Posted by in categories: economics, energy, engineering, ethics, finance, futurism, genetics, geopolitics, lifeboat, military, nanotechnology, physics, robotics/AI, science, scientific freedom, supercomputing, transhumanism

FEBRUARY 11/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

London’s first computer, the fastest in the world at 1MHz. May, 1950

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Feb 9, 2014

The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, automation, big data, biological, economics, education, engineering, futurism, life extension, science, security, singularity

FEBRUARY 10/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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UPDATE 1-China central bank urges proper management of risk, liquidity
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/08/china-economy-cenb…8720140208

Iran sending warships close to U.S. borders
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/iran-warships-us-borders-103288.html

Apple’s Tim Cook on Plans for Cash and Emerging Markets
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/07/apple-still-a-growth-…interview/

World’s first 3D-printed titanium bicycle frame could lead to cheaper, lighter bikes
http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-titanium-bicycle-frame/3076…witterfeed

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Feb 8, 2014

U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another

Posted by in category: driverless cars

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Cars that retain their human drivers despite growing numbers of self-driving vehicles will gain automated safe-driving features in the United States, according to an announcement this week that U.S. federal agencies will encourage vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, communication technology for passenger vehicles.

The proposal relates to a kind of internet in which the connected computers are cars and trucks sharing data about speed, position and nearby traffic signals ten times a second in order to reduce accidents. If two cars on a three-lane road simultaneously attempted to switch into the center lane, for example, the V2V system could warn both drivers. Alternately, if a car two vehicles ahead brakes, the third driver could be alerted whether or not the middle driver braked immediately.

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