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Jan 16, 2019
Forget Darwinian Evolution. Humanity May Soon Evolve Itself Through A.I.
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biological, Peter Diamandis, robotics/AI
Are we poised to witness the evolution of evolution itself? In the following interview, expert Peter Diamandis predicts not only will humanity soon transcend its current biological limits, our world will become automated and magical, responding to our deepest desires and inner thoughts.
Jan 9, 2019
Will humanity survive this century? Sir Martin Rees predicts ‘a bumpy ride’ ahead
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, governance, security
Humanity is under threat. At least according to Sir Martin Rees, one of Britain’s most esteemed astronomers.
These two kinds of technologies enable just a few people to have a hugely wide-ranging and maybe even global cascading effect. This leads to big problems of governance because you’d like to regulate the use of these things, but enforcing regulations worldwide is very, very difficult. Think how hopeless it is to enforce the drug laws globally or the tax laws globally. To actually ensure that no one misuses these new technologies is just as difficult. I worry that we are going to have to minimize this risk by actions which lead to a great tension between privacy, liberty and security.
Do you see ways that we can use and develop these technologies in a responsible way?
Jan 2, 2019
Humanity Will Slam a Spacecraft into an Asteroid in a Few Years to Help Save Us All
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
NASA’s DART mission is on track to launch in June 2021 and collide with an asteroid called Didymos in 2022.
Dec 29, 2018
Here’s how we can put all of humanity’s space debris to good use
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Tidying up our extraplanetary mess is as important a task as cleaning up the Earth. If we don’t, it will become increasingly hard to launch rockets into space.
Nov 30, 2018
Syfy’s Nightflyers asks whether humanity deserves to be saved
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: bioengineering, genetics, neuroscience, space travel
Showrunner Jeff Buhler has built a fascinating world around Martin’s story seeds, starting by setting the action within the foreseeable future, rather than in an incomprehensibly distant one. The invented technologies here are particularly intriguing, like the genetic modifications first officer Melantha Jhirl (Jodie Turner-Smith) has to make her better suited for space travel, or the cybernetics technician Lommie (Maya Eshet) uses to interface with machinery. Given the state of real-world technological developments in genetic engineering and research into brain-machine interfaces, the series feels plausible and grounded, even though it’s set in a spacefaring future.
The 10-episode space series adapts a 40-year-old George R.R. Martin novella.
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Nov 29, 2018
Transhumanism — Push Humanity Forward
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transhumanism
Nov 26, 2018
What If Humanity Became an Interstellar Society?
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space travel
Nov 18, 2018
What is String Theory And Why Humanity Absolutely Needs It
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
String theory is a complex theory that describes our reality with superstrings as the most basic and fundamental piece of all matter Theoretical particle physicist Daniele Amati supposedly said that string theory was 21st century physics that fell by chance into the 20th century.
Oct 18, 2018
Cosmologist Martin Rees gives humanity a 50–50 chance of surviving the 21st century
Posted by Xavier Rosseel in category: futurism
‘’In the medieval period, life was miserable and there wasn’t anything people could do to improve it. Today, the gap between the way the world is and the way it could be is enormous.
But he’s still an optimist.