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LIST OF UPDATES (MARCH 03 THROUGH MARCH 10/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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Making nanoelectronics last longer for medical devices and ‘cyborgs’
http://www.kurzweilai.net/making-nanoelectronics-last-longer…es-cyborgs

Are you ready for the Internet of Cops?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/are-you-ready-for-the-internet-of-cops

Moore’s law and neural networks collude to address grand challenge
http://www.kurzweilai.net/moores-law-and-neural-networks-col…-challenge

Emerging market risk and reward
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-341033-emerging-market-risk-and-reward.html

Crisis in Crimea: What Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and the EU Should Do

Crisis in Crimea: What Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and the EU Should Do

10 Top Trends in Social Media
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/04/24/10-top-trends-in-social-media/

Did Sherlock Holmes Believe in God?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/03/03/d…ve-in-god/

Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains

Report Calls for Better Backstops to Protect Power Grid From Cyberattacks

East Ukraine aflame as Russia poised to strike
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/03/odessa-r…rit=206567

Buffett: I’d love to see minimum wage at $15 an hour
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/03/news/economy/buffett-minimum-wage/index.html

Gates reclaims Forbes title of world’s richest billionaire
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/03/news/companies/forbes-billio…index.html

Here’s Why Scientists Are Shooting Rockets at an Aurora
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/heres-…7_46466698

How NASA Is Trying to Help California Survive Its Water Crisis
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/water/ho…=pm_latest

How to Annex Another Nation’s Territory: The Crimean Invasion in 6 Steps
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/how…ck=pm_news

Richard Branson on Why Leading Means Listening
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231826

Ukraine crisis: Grip tightens
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26413953

Web-Enabled Toothbrushes Join the Internet of Things
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230436070…31046.html

WhatsApp Founders Make Last-Minute Addition to Forbes’ Billionaires List
http://mashable.com/2014/03/03/whatsapp-founders-forbes-billionaires-list/

Ukraine Crisis May Thwart Obama Plans From Iran to China
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-03/ukraine-cri…china.html

No, American Weakness Didn’t Encourage Putin to Invade Ukrain
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/no-…ne/284168/

Confirmed: Facebook’s $19-billion WhatsApp deal is Jaw-Dropping
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-confirme…g-20140302,0,5388152.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Ftechnology+%28L.A.+Times+-+Technology+News%29

Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-quantum-physics-single-use-memories.html

When Will Elon Musk Start Making Solar Panels?
http://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2014/02/…panels.htm

In Search of a Stable Electronic Currency

Ion Proton™ Sequencer designed to sequence human genome fo

Art vs. Engineering? Art + Engineering?
http://www.engineering.com/Education/EducationArticles/Artic…ering.aspx

Is “Designed” in China the Next Big Thing?
http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArti…Thing.aspx

Rolls Royce and the Autonomous High Seas
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-Seas.aspx

Undergrads Aim to Lower Bio Printing Costs
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/Art…Costs.aspx

Tiny, Cheap, Foolproof: Seeking New Component to Counter Counterfeit Electronics
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/24.aspx

DARPA Seeking Automated Decision Aids for Pilots and Battle Managers in Contested Environments
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/21.aspx

Big Mechanism Seeks the “Whys” Hidden in Big Data
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/20.aspx

ARES Aims to Provide More Front-line Units with Mission-tailored VTOL Capabilities
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/11.aspx

Molten Salts Might Provide Half-Price Grid Energy Storage
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525121/molten-salts-mig…y-storage/

Stem cells repair and strenthen muscles in aged mice
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/03/01/stem-cells-repair-and-st…aged-mice/

Enhancing the human race: augmented reality
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/health/scientific-break…icine.html

What if part of your innovation journey was to go back to the future?
http://smartinnovation.org/2014/03/02/what-if-part-of-your-i…he-future/

It slices, it dices, and it protects the body from harm: 3-D structure of enzyme that helps defend against bacteria
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140228210604.htm

Robots in 2020 / Vision of Future — Humans Life Jointly Humanoid

The End of Education As We Know It
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/articles/radical-openness/t…ow-it.html

The Case for Connectivity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-ross/the-case-for-connectivity_b_4839486.html

SNOPA: A Privacy Win-Win for Social Media Age
http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/right-to-digital-pr…z2uv9naa6B

Pill could help humans live longer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10666532/Pill-could-help-…onger.html

Ten Things I Remember About the Future
http://markrvickers.com/2014/03/01/ten-things-i-remember-about-the-future/

Why Daydreamers Will Save the World
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140224153333&#4…-the-world

NASA’s CT-2 Preps for Larger Deep Space Launches
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…nches.aspx

Professors, We Need You!

In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones

In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones

Fact Checking the Nuclear Energy File

Fact Checking the Nuclear Energy File

Next SpaceX Visit to the ISS Will Test Booster Relanding Controls

Headlines: Next SpaceX Visit to the ISS Will Test Booster Relanding Controls

Are We Measuring Methane Accurately in Calculating GHG Emissions?

Are We Measuring Methane Accurately in Calculating GHG Emissions?

Dyson Invests in Robotic Vision Research
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…earch.aspx

NASA Research Aims to Print Wood in Space
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/Art…Space.aspx

NASA Develops Star Trek-Inspired Gadgets That Can Heal Injured Astronauts and Eliminate Animal Testing
http://inhabitat.com/nasa-develops-star-trek-inspired-gadget…l-testing/

The ISS to Be Home to NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…m-Lab.aspx

Climate Change and U.S. National Security: a Geoeconomic Approach

Climate Change and U.S. National Security: a Geoeconomic Approach

The Future of Military Force
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2014/02/24/the_futu…07102.html

Boundless Natural Gas, Boundless Opportunities: Interview with EIA Chief
http://blog.cleantechies.com/2014/02/24/boundless-natural-ga…f1qt2.dpuf

Henry Ford Gave Innovators The Wrong Message About The Value Of History
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/21/henry-ford-…f-history/

No Longer Science Fiction: Start-Up Unveils Radical Consciousness Technology
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-weinkauf/no-longer-sci…88935.html

Machine Consciousness: Fact Or Fiction?
http://footnote1.com/machine-consciousness-fact-or-fiction/

3D bioprinting the human body — infographic
http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/gadget/newsid=34156.php

Extremism and terrorism are the other price that humankind pays for successful Silicon Valley startups
http://man-as-media.com/2014/01/08/extremism-and-terrorism-a…-startups/

The Internet of Things and CIA concern
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Homeland-Security-Today-43648…ps-b-grp-v

The Science Behind Procrastination
http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/the-science-behind-procrastination

It’s Official: Microsoft Is Going Down
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140228214728&#4…going-down

The Internet Of Things Is Going To Bring A Plethora Of Challenges

The Internet Of Things Is Going To Bring A Plethora Of Challenges

Eterni.me will create a computer version of you for when you die
http://www.gizmag.com/eterni-me-death-avatar/31053/?utm_medi…witterfeed

New 3D-image modelling technology enables anyone to have a 3D digital doppelgänger
http://www.mpg.de/7975368/bodylab-3D-modelling-technology

“Think before you speak“
http://www.mpg.de/7959561/temporal_coordination-thinking_speaking

New drug against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s on the way
http://www.mpg.de/7955496/anle138b_alzheimer_parkinson

Searching for Earth’s twin
http://www.mpg.de/7957207/PLATO

Royal Society and US National Academy of Sciences release joint publication on climate change
http://royalsociety.org/news/2014/climate-change-evidence-causes/

Mystery of marine mammal stranding solved
http://royalsociety.org/news/2014/whale-standings-atacama/

Science in court: Disease detectives
http://www.nature.com/news/science-in-court-disease-detectives-1.14775

Alternative lengthening of telomeres in cancer stem cells in vivo
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/onc2013603a.html

Evidence for quantum annealing with more than one hundred qubits
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v10/n3/abs/nphys2900.html

The Right Reason for Entrepreneurship

The Right Reason for Entrepreneurship

U.K. To Legalize Three-Parent IVF?
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39318/…rent-IVF-/

Bacteria’s Role in Bowel Cancer
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39314/…el-Cancer/

Plants Without Plastid Genomes
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39313/…d-Genomes/

Behavior Brief
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39307/…ior-Brief/

Next Generation: Seeing Brain Tumors
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39302/…in-Tumors/

Engineered Molecules for Smarter Medicines
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/engin…-medicines

The Challenge of Manufacturing Between Macro and Micro
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/the-c…-and-micro

Simulating Star Formation on a Galactic Scale
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/simul…ctic-scale

Twisted Math and Beautiful Geometry
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/twist…l-geometry

Electronic Floor Sensors Turn Whole Rooms Into Immersive Touchscreens
http://gizmodo.com/electronic-floor-sensors-turn-whole-rooms…1531835835

Interactive Virtual Reality In 3-D, The Newest Learning Tool
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026765/interactive-virtual-reali…rning-tool

Drone Cargo Ships Will Make the Real World Work Like the Internet
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/drone-cargo-ships-will…-internet/

6 Industries That Will Profit From Global Warming
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/climateprofiteers/

Tooth Regeneration Now Possible with New Stem Cell Research

Tooth Regeneration Now Possible with New Stem Cell Research

Key trends from the world’s biggest mobile technology show
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/tech/mobile/mobile-world-congr…index.html

The Internet of Things Space is being enhanced by Cisco
http://marketeyewitness.com/internet-things-space-enhanced-cisco/

Smartphone-Piloted Drones Could Support US Troops on Front Lines
http://www.livescience.com/43545-darpa-cargo-drone.html

No Hands! Mind-Controlled Helicopter Flies On Brainwaves
http://www.livescience.com/43250-mind-controlled-quadcopter.html

Can Gadgets Really Tell The Future?
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026853/can-gadgets-really-tell-the-future

Can Quantum Communication Work For Underwater Vehicles and Sensors?
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525166/can-quantum-comm…d-sensors/

Why The New American Workforce Wants Better Consumption, Not Just More
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026869/why-the-new-american-work…-just-more

How Growing Buildings Underwater Could Fight Climate Change
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026694/how-growing-buildings-und…ate-change

Images Of New York City in 2017 As An Unequal, Hellish Surveillance State
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026737/images-of-new-york-city-i…ance-state

Multinationals See Reputations Eroding from Tax Planning
http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/Multinationals-Reputatio…#45;1.html

Willis Study: Tech Firms Point to Dependence on Outsourced Vendors as Cyber Threat
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/willis-study-tech-firms-poi…_news_stmp

Why Teens Are the Most Elusive and Valuable Customers in Tech
http://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/inside-massive-tech-land-g…id=sf01001

A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE: POPULATION SIZE
http://elizagreenbooks.com/2014/03/02/a-dystopian-future-pop…ign=buffer

Technology: Rise of the replicants
on.ft.com/1gNlGWz

The CIO: More Than a Network Steward
http://simplifywork.blogs.xerox.com/2014/03/03/the-cio-more-…k-steward/

QUOTATION(S): “…The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable…”

CITATION(S): “…If you plot the basic measures of the price to performance and capacity of information technologies (for example, computer instructions per second per constant dollar, bits of memory per dollar, or the total number of bits being moved around over the Internet), they follow remarkably smooth — and foreseeable — trajectories. This observation goes well beyond Moore’s Law (which says you can place twice as many transistors on an integrated circuit every two years); in the case of computation, it goes back to the 1890 American census, long before Gordon Moore was even born .… What’s predictable is that these measures grow exponentially, not linearly, though our intuition about the future is linear, which is hard-wired in our brains. This makes a remarkable difference. Thirty steps linearly gets you to 30, whereas 30 steps exponentially (2, 4, 8, 16…) gets you to a billion .… And it’s not just electronics and communications that follow this exponential course. It applies as well to health, medicine and its related field of biology. The Human Genome Project, for instance, saw the amount of genetic sequencing double and the cost of sequencing per base pair come down by half each year .… A computer that fit inside a building when I was a student now fits in my pocket, and is a thousand times more powerful despite being a million times less expensive .… In another quarter century, that capability will fit inside a red blood cell and will again be a billion times more powerful per dollar…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (25) Correlate everything else with the ignored and unthinkable ‘else’ of everything else forever.

BOOK(S): The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. ISBN-13: 978–0316346627.

N.B.: Quotations, Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

Brian Armstrong — TechCrunch

Mt.Gox is gone. The one-time biggest Bitcoin exchange closed its doors this week and filed for bankruptcy this morning. Questions about the future of Bitcoin have once again been up-leveled to the headlines of nearly every major media outlet.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a string of issues in the Bitcoin space, from the transaction malleability bug that ultimately closed Mt.Gox’s doors to a corresponding distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that delayed transfers on multiple exchanges and services. These attacks, along with recent phishing scams and money-laundering arrests, have cast doubt on the Bitcoin space and caused consumer panic — which is fair.

But what hasn’t been communicated well is how those who are truly invested in the future of Bitcoin remain totally confident, because with every attack, breach, and arrest, Bitcoin is getting stronger and proving to consumers and businesses it is not going away.

Here is what is not being said about Bitcoin that should be.

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By Eduard Gismatullin — Irish Examiner

More than 70 individuals with a combined wealth of $200bn (€145bn) are investing in space projects including travel, Knight Frank said ahead of its release of The Wealth Report 2014 on Wednesday.

A suborbital trip from London to Sydney will take about two hours and 12 minutes or one-tenth the time of flying by plane.

“New commercial space will be one of the most exciting investment sectors in the next 20 years,” Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, was cited as saying in the statement.

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— Singularity Hub

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Silicon Valley sprung up on big open stretches of land where military installations had once been. Early semiconductor and computing businesses needed the space. But as Moore’s law progressed and mobile computing became the thing, the tech industry crept up into the seven-by-seven mile peninsula that is San Francisco. The city’s South of Market district is now nearly a strip mall of tech startups.

But tucked away in one of the neighborhood’s utilitarian office buildings is a technology company that harkens back to the early days of Silicon Valley: Planet Labs, founded by former NASA engineers, which builds satellites to photograph the Earth. Even so, the company doesn’t need a ton of space: Its satellites are about the size of a breadbox. The company recently recruited a batch of Stanford University students and built 28 satellites in 17 days in its cramped SoMa offices (pictured above).

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By — Geekosystem

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Tomorrow is apparently “Future Day,” and not just in the same way that today is present day. March 1st is an unofficial holiday for transhumanists, designed to “elevat[e]the human condition” and maybe help us prepare for the robot uprising.

Started in 2012, “Future Day” was created Ben Goertzel and Adam A.Ford of the transhuman nonprofit Humanity+ to engender conversations about humanity’s role in a rapidly changing world. Future Day’s website states,

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Thinking robot

The news has been turning into science fiction for a while now. TVs that watch the watcher, growing tiny kidneys, 3D printing, the car of tomorrow, Amazon’s fleet of delivery drones – so many news stories now “sound like science fiction” that the term returns 1,290,000 search results on Google.

The pace of technological innovation is accelerating so quickly that it’s possible to perform this test in reverse. Google an imaginary idea from science fiction and you’ll almost certainly find scientists researching the possibility. Warp drive? The Multiverse? A space elevator to the stars? Maybe I can formulate this as Walter’s law – “Any idea described in sci-fi will on a long enough timescale be made real by science.”

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By - Gigaom

George Miller's Stratasys Dimension 3D printer prints pieces for a cube puzzle. Photo by Signe Brewster3D printing is slow; so slow that printing an object several feet long is an arduous task that can take days. As a result, most 3D printers are tailored to printing small objects that take a few hours at most.

That could change for industrial-sized printers after the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and machine tool manufacturer Cincinnati Incorporated signed an agreement this month, 3Dprint.com reported today. The partnership will focus on creating a 3D printer capable of printing objects at 200–500 times the speed and 10 times the size of most current printers.

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— Singularity Hub
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So video games are addictive—this we know.

It comes down to dopamine, one of the brain’s basic signaling molecules. Emotionally, we feel dopamine as pleasure, engagement, excitement, creativity, and a desire to investigate and make meaning out of the world. It’s released whenever we take risks, or encounter novelty. From an evolutionary standpoint, it reinforces exploratory behavior.

More importantly, dopamine is a motivator. It’s released when we have the expectation of reward. And once this neurotransmitter becomes hardwired into a psychological reward loop, the desire to get more of that reward becomes the brain’s overarching preoccupation. Cocaine, widely considered the most addictive drug on the planet, does little more than flood the brain with dopamine and block its reuptake (sort of like SSRI’s block the reuptake of serotonin).

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— Singularity Hub
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Remember when Jeff Bezos said Amazon would deliver packages using drones at some point in the next few years? Bezos and Amazon may be beat to the punch by a government in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently launched a million dollar contest to develop and implement a fleet of delivery drones within a year.

Competitors will design drones to deliver government documents. The drone’s cargo compartment would be secured biometrically—requiring a finger print or retina scan to release the paperwork inside. The UAE plans to announce a winner in May, and after six months of testing in the dust and heat, begin regular service.

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