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Gaia Vince — BBC Future

(Nasa)

In Ancient Greek mythology, the Earth Goddess Gaia had nine titan sons, who attempted to control not just the Earth, but the entire Universe. I’d like to introduce another. It’s a new creature who emerged only in recent decades. But it’s a creature who is already as influential over life on the planet as the phytoplankton or forests that regulate global temperature, the weather and the air we breathe.

That new creature is us, or more precisely, what humanity is becoming. The entirety of our species, Homo sapiens, is evolving into a superorganism; I’ll call this new life force Homo omnis, or ‘Homni’.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 04, 2014)

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BBC: Virgin Galactic crash: Descent system ‘deployed early’ http://lnkd.in/dHrit-u

WIRED: An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World’s First Digital Weapon http://lnkd.in/d2n4SP9

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Safety Board Cites Improper Pilot Command in Virgin Galactic Crash. Accident Sets Back Ambitious Timetables for Space Tourism & Other Commercial Ventures. http://lnkd.in/d-qyJGF

REUTERS: Rocket plane’s tail activated prematurely in fatal crash. http://lnkd.in/d83T-Nv

THE GUARDIAN: Virgin Galactic space plane’s re-entry system activated early, say investigators. Safety board chairman says premature deployment of feathering system ‘a statement of fact and not a statement of cause’ http://lnkd.in/d_VqDpR

ENGADGET: Investigators pin Virgin Galactic’s crash on faulty tail deployment http://lnkd.in/dyN9nsB

DER SPIEGEL: Monetary Fallacy? Deep Divisions Emerge over ECB Quantitative Easing Plans http://lnkd.in/d_JncYM

DER SPIEGEL: Merkel Fears Britain Crossing a Red Line on Immigration http://lnkd.in/dNBC2Ra

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia and China Thwart Dream for Marine Sanctuary in Antarctica http://lnkd.in/de8Zh6m

CNN Miles O’Brien said that Virgin Galactic had “consistently underestimated the risk involved.” http://lnkd.in/d7jCjdq

NEW SCIENTIST: Build a stable wormhole with the help of dark aliens http://lnkd.in/d-3CqYF

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: With $100 Million, Entrepreneur Sees Path to Disrupt Medical Imaging. Will ultrasound-on-a-chip make medical imaging so cheap that anyone can do it? http://lnkd.in/drZGw-u

THE ECONOMIST: Europe’s banks are in decent shape-but that is not enough to repair its economy http://econ.st/1wN1zls

TECH CRUNCH: China developed an anti-drone laser tech that can apparently shoot down a low flying drone http://tcrn.ch/1xS6BeW

BROOKINGS: From Russia, Without Love http://lnkd.in/dtR7G99

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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Written By: — Singularity Hub

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If space is the final frontier, we pilgrims have a lot to learn. To date, we’ve rarely ventured far beyond the thin envelope of Earth’s atmosphere. Why? Because we can’t yet survive long in space without dangling a supply line into the gravity well.

Last weekend, however, we took a step that may prove crucial to foregoing our Earthly dependence. Made In Space—a Singularity University company dreamed up at SU’s 2010 graduate studies program—launched the first 3D printer into space.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 03, 2014)

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REUTERS: Wanted: 500,000 pilots for China aviation gold rush http://lnkd.in/dj7kMfz

PHYS ORG: Self-driving vehicles generate enthusiasm, concerns worldwide http://lnkd.in/dmjJMgR

BBC: Germany ‘would accept UK exit from EU’ to protect migration rules http://lnkd.in/dPX_9Hm

COMPUTERWORLD: If Ebola’s a problem here, just imagine it in India http://lnkd.in/d7GNxhT

THE BULLETIN: Internet-trading platforms: Making it easier to get around sanctions? http://lnkd.in/dDD8nXT

THE BULLETIN: Which is the greater threat to the United States and the world: ISIS or Ebola? http://lnkd.in/dURGWCC

THE ECONOMIST: Such a dramatic fall in the price of crude oil has global consequences. Who wins, who loses? http://econ.st/1xPQYET

BBC: Micro-rockets ‘can destroy chemical weapons’ http://lnkd.in/dV7YjEu

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THE GUARDIAN: In North Korea, fear takes hold over new foreign threat: Ebola. World’s toughest measures against the disease have been imposed in a country far from west Africa, and with few tourists http://lnkd.in/dectm7b

THE GUARDIAN: While the internet is accountable to nobody, privacy will be in crisis. It is time to bring humanity back to the networks that hear everything, track our lives, and mine information bought and sold http://lnkd.in/di2a2GN

THE GUARDIAN: Google fined for ‘disrespectful’ Street View photos of woman’s cleavage. A Canadian woman said she was derided and abused after a Google Street View car captured an image of her outside her house http://lnkd.in/dZpU5tb

NEW YORK TIMES: Megan Smith: ‘You Can Affect Billions of People’. The chief technology officer of the United States is bringing a Silicon Valley ethos to Washington. http://lnkd.in/d_Q3Vm2

NEW YORK TIMES: Amazon’s Grand Design in Devices. Amazon introduces new gadgets the way a guerrilla army prepares for attack: unsteadily at first, and then with unexpected ferocity. http://lnkd.in/df8zCbc

NATURE: Solution-processed, high-performance light-emitting diodes based on quantum dots. http://lnkd.in/dX-X8Wk

THE ECONOMIST: How firms are adapting to a virus that threatens economies as well as lives http://econ.st/1sPz5lf

THE GUARDIAN: How Virgin Galactic space program has been plagued by fuel problems that killed three engineers in 2007 ahead of fatal explosion at 45,000ft http://lnkd.in/dGtGd-j

FINANCIAL TIMES: Branson’s space mission brought to earth http://on.ft.com/1A1m41I

SLATE: America’s war against ISIS is turning into a quagmire: http://slate.me/1xODp8z

ENGINEERING: Could Gliders Boost Rockets Into Orbit and Beyond? NASA has successfully flight-tested a prototype twin-fuselage towed glider that could lead to rockets being launched from pilotless aircraft at high altitudes – a technology application that could significantly reduce the cost and…more http://lnkd.in/dwbZWNf

FRANCE 24: Bill Gates to give $500 million for malaria, other diseases http://f24.my/1A1qIgd

THE ECONOMIST: France’s largest companies are losing their bosses at a remarkable rate http://econ.st/1tmJDfg

THE GUARDIAN: IPCC report: six graphs that show how we’re changing the world’s climate. We look at the data that underpins the forthcoming IPCC climate science report detailing humanity’s influence on the climate, global impacts and solutions http://lnkd.in/dkTGHhV

TECHREPUBLIC: CIOs feel pressure to innovate amidst disruptive technology threat http://www.techrepublic.com/article/cios-feel-pressure-to-in…gy-threat/
THE DIPLOMAT: The Japan-China Defense Hotline’s Growing Importance The Japan-U.S. defense guidelines update is necessitating dialogue in the East China Sea. http://lnkd.in/dAM8CzY
BLOOMBERG: Ship for Space Tourists Crashes, 1 Pilot Reported Dead; Second Failure in Week http://lnkd.in/dR-C8cV

BLOOMBERG: Pacific Air Force Chief Says Wary of Risky Flying by China Jets http://lnkd.in/dFYES2Q

YAHOO NEWS: Virgin ‘ignored’ space safety warnings: expert http://lnkd.in/d_6iuKD

BUSINESS INSIDER: One Dead, One Injured In Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash.Business Insider contacted Northrup Grumman, but the company wasn’t able to comment. We also reached out to Scaled Composites, but the company has not yet returned our calls. http://lnkd.in/dhHWa7G

NATURAL NEWS: U.S. government secretly searches for technology to combat aerosolized Ebola http://lnkd.in/drgfaVU

FORTUNE: After two crashes, private space industry faces inevitable questions. Will back-to-back space flight accidents this week give customers of private space companies second thoughts? http://lnkd.in/dzH4M5b

FORBES: NTSB Begins Its Investigation Of Virgin Galactic Crash http://lnkd.in/dHDrqax

POPULAR SCIENCE: What New Chinese Weapons Will We See At This Year’s Zhuhai Air Show? http://lnkd.in/dXTJ_xd

TECHCRUNCH: Bitcoin Brothers Aim To Disrupt Bitcoin Mining With New, More Powerful, Supercomputers http://lnkd.in/dH-rstw

THE INDEPENDENT: Virgin Galactic crash: Spaceflight company was warned of safety issues, expert claims. Virgin Galactic was given warnings several years ago about the danger of its rockets but chose to ignore cautions from experts, it has been claimed. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/virgin-gala…34068.html

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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Written By: — Singularity Hub

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The list of things computers can do better than humans is already long, and it’s getting longer every year. Now, you can add making environmental inferences.

We pride ourselves on the ability to read between the lines, find patterns and information where they aren’t immediately obvious. A hundred subtle (or not so subtle) details in a given scene may add up to the fight-or-flight judgement this is a safe place—or, run!

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My Brief Q&A session with Christoffer De Geer, about BitCoin, Cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Technology.

This Q&A was first published by Mr. Geir Solem, Director of Cryptor Trust Inc., on the Cryptor Primary Investor Blog (Date: October 31, 2014).

Quote: “BitCoin was the first small step in what I believe will be a truly transformational journey, for each and every one of us. In 10 Years Cryptocurrency and Blockchains have every chance to have the same, or greater, impact on our lives, society, and civiliation, as the creation of Email had to the Postal Service, and the Fax Machine as compared to the Internet; in 25 Years Monetary Systems, Systems of Trade and Exchange, Systems of Transaction of Goods, Ledger and Recordation Systems, Everything You Know – Will – Be – Different – and, Unrecognizable relative to what we know today at the end of the year 2014.”

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Fran Fulton is 66, and she’s been fully blind for about 10 years. A few weeks ago, all that changed.

“When they ‘turned me on’ so to speak it was absolutely the most breathtaking experience” — Fran Fulton

Fulton suffers from retinitis pigmentosa – a degenerative eye disease that slowly causes light-sensitive cells in the retina to die off. Over the course of several years she lost her sight, and for the past 10 years she hasn’t been able to see anything at all. But in late July, Fulton was outfitted with a system called the Argus II. A pair of camera-equipped glasses are hooked up to electrodes implanted in her eyeball, which feed her brain visual information. Using the system, she can now see the world again. What’s the experience like?

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 01, 2014)

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BLOOMBERG: Virgin Galactic Ship Crashes With 1 Pilot Reported Dead http://lnkd.in/dR-C8cV

ENGADGET: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashes after launch http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/31/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo/

THE GUARDIAN: One person dead as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane crashes on test flight http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/31/spaceshiptwo-…ash-mojave

BUSINESS INSIDER: One Dead, One Injured In Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash http://www.businessinsider.com/virgin-galactic-spaceship-rep…014-10

FORBES: Virgin Galactic Spaceship Destroyed During Test Flight http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/10/31/virgin-gala…st-flight/

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crashes. Accident in California’s Mojave Desert Kills One Pilot, Injures Another http://online.wsj.com/articles/virgin-galactic-spaceship-crashes-1414781841

NEW YORK TIMES: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashes During Test Flight http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/science/virgin-galactics-s…s&_r=0

BLOOMBERG: Twitter and IBM strike data mining agreement http://lnkd.in/du5KtxV

YOU GOT INCLUDE THEIR OWN CORRUPTION OPERATING COSTS. NEW YORK TIMES: Are Banks Too Expensive to Use? http://lnkd.in/d2a7tWD

THE WORLD BANK: Climate Change, Risk Management and the Big Emitters http://lnkd.in/dF_y7WB

SUICIDALS TO BE ARE RUNNING TO VIRGIN GALACTIC’S WAITING LIST!

LINKEDIN: Richard Branson, Success, Unpreparedness, Failure, and Death! http://lnkd.in/dQmt_wM

WHEN YOU WANT A SKUNK WORK SHIP TO BLOW UP, YOU JUST USE 1960 SOVIET (COMMUNIST) BURNERS AND MAKE A HUGE FOOL OF A SUPERNATION AND ITS SKUNKS. PEOPLE ABUNDANTLY KNOW THAT SOVIET AND RUSSIAN QUALITY ASSURANCE METHODOLOGIES ARE THE MOST UNRELIABLE IN THE WORLD, ALONG WITH THAT OF CHINA, GERMANY’S WORLD’S SUPERCLIENT # 1.

THE ECONOMIST: Where not to invest in Europe http://lnkd.in/dpSpMXB

NANOWERK: A quantum leap in nanoparticle efficiency http://lnkd.in/dBJrS64

BUSINESS INSIDER: $129 Billion Worth Of New York City Real Estate Now Lies In Flood Zones http://lnkd.in/d55uCdN

A POOR COUNTRY, INDIA SENT A MISSION TO MARS, NOT TO THE FOOLISH MOON, WITH UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS AND WITH A HUMBLE BUDGET. NASA AND VIRGIN GALACTIC WENT UNDER IN TWO SILLY BUT MOST ONEROUSLY EXPENSIVE “EXPLOSIVE INITIATIVES”. NOW, BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS KNOW THAT WHEN THEY WANT TO SUCCEED, YOU EMBRACE RICHARD BRANSON SUCCESS TIPS, EMBRACING THE POWER OF SIMPLICITY AGAINST THE PRESCRIPTION OF SIR. MARTIN REES PhD. ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF COMPLEXITY.

DON’T GET ME WRONG, INDIA IS A POOR COUNTRY THAT WILL BECOME WORLD’S SUPERPOWER #1 OR #2.

To the dismal and naivety of so-called futurists, the Present and Future of Spaceflight is “sucked” by NASA’s Contractors and Virgin Galactic. A Dr. Wernher von Braun’s U.S. scientist that both cases underestimated the “RELIABILITY EFFORT.”

LINKEDIN: WALMART WILL BE SPUTNIKKED BY AMAZON OR ALIBABA http://lnkd.in/ddRTN7Q

One Of The World’s Most Powerful Envious Literary Agents Compared Amazon To ISIS http://lnkd.in/dFyimUp

NO, NO, NO, WITHOUT THE RELIABILITY EFFORT BEFORE. WS: Richard Branson, in a September interview, predicted Virgin Galactic would have its first flight before Christmas http://on.wsj.com/1wQZQgJ

FINANCIAL TIMES: Google looks beyond search for growth http://on.ft.com/1pcqaQ4

THE ECONOMIST: Schumpeter. Titans of innovation. What can business learn from Big Science? http://lnkd.in/dXDJc3K

THE ECONOMIST: Schumpeter. Second wind. Some traditional businesses are thriving in an age of disruptive innovation http://lnkd.in/dHZtpdP

COMPUTERWORLD: NASA puts finishing touches on Mars-bound spacecraft http://lnkd.in/d3Vn4NB

FORBES: Amazon And Samsung Are Locked In A Battle Against Google http://lnkd.in/dyJr8uh

CIO: Cleveland Clinic Uses IBM’s Watson in the Cloud to Fight Cancer http://lnkd.in/d_RyPps

WILL GOOGLE SPUTNIK AMAZON? NEW SCIENTIST: Can Google Express deliver on same-day shopping? http://lnkd.in/detqtKX

NEW SCIENTIST: Spider-drones weave high-rise structures out of cables http://lnkd.in/dXfuHaQ

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: China’s Imperial President. Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip. Xi Jinping’s reforms are designed to produce a corruption-free, politically cohesive, and economically powerful one-party state with global reach: a Singapore on steroids. http://lnkd.in/dKZ5tad

CNN: Taking a cue from science fiction, Microsoft demos ‘universal translator’. Skype users will soon be able to conduct voice and video calls supported by a near-real time translation technology. http://lnkd.in/dMQYtmT

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: What Happens to Consciousness When We Die.The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry http://lnkd.in/dKs7duQ

FORBES: Leaving The Church Of Data http://lnkd.in/dE4uUSu

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: What Happens to Consciousness When We Die. The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry. Where is the experience of red in your brain? The question was put to me by Deepak Chopra at his Sages and Scientists Symposium in Carlsbad, Calif., on March 3. http://lnkd.in/d5RJuUy

FOREIGN POLICY: Russian Military Escalates Provocation Campaign in Europe http://lnkd.in/dUfGBD2

LINKEDIN: Richard Branson, Success, Unpreparedness, Failure, and Death! http://lnkd.in/dQmt_wM

Bill Gates: People Don’t Realize How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software Bots Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-bots-are-taking-aw…z3Hn8hZHOD

Bill Gates Just Put Nostradamus to Shame.Not long ago, every broker on Wall Street turned a blind eye to the robotics industry. The vast majority of investors did, too. But then something interesting happened…In December 2006, Microsoft (MSFT) Co-Founder, Bill Gates, wrote something for Scientific American. http://www.techandinnovationdaily.com/2014/02/01/bill-gates-robotics-industry/

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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Richard Branson, Success, Unpreparedness, Failure, and Death!

GOD OF SUCCESS

The Largest God of Entrepreneurial Success, “knighted by the English Crown,” wanted to teach us that the Power of Simplicity with Boldness is sufficient to defeat the Science of Complexity and a most-unprepared à –la-Sir-Francis-Drake company called: “Virgin Galactic.”

IGNORANCE AND IRRESPONSIBILITY BROUGHT US THESE NEWS FROM THE DEITY OF PERPETUAL VICTORY AND TRIUMPH:

(Do not expect these fools to know what Extreme Risk Management is!)

BLOOMBERG: Virgin Galactic Ship Crashes With 1 Pilot Reported Dead http://lnkd.in/dR-C8cV

ENGADGET: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashes after launch http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/31/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo/

THE GUARDIAN: One person dead as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane crashes on test flight http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/31/spaceshiptwo-…ash-mojave

BUSINESS INSIDER: One Dead, One Injured In Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash http://www.businessinsider.com/virgin-galactic-spaceship-rep…014-10

FORBES: Virgin Galactic Spaceship Destroyed During Test Flight http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/10/31/virgin-gala…st-flight/

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crashes. Accident in California’s Mojave Desert Kills One Pilot, Injures Another http://online.wsj.com/articles/virgin-galactic-spaceship-crashes-1414781841

NEW YORK TIMES: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashes During Test Flight http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/science/virgin-galactics-s…s&_r=0

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Walmart Will Be Sputnikked By Amazon Or Alibaba

Walmart will be Sputnikked by Amazon or Alibaba. That is, as you don’t understand English and Russian, let us try Latin:

“… Si vis pacem, para bellum.…”

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(Corporations and countries who get sputnikked are not Incessantly Renewing the Global and Geopolitical Competitive Advantage)

Alibaba President: Our Sales Will Surpass Walmart In Two Years. Read more:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chinas-alibaba-surpass-walmart-sale…z3HlHZ1P1Y