Lifeboat Foundation

I believe nanodevices will operate as drug delivery systems, cancer treatment tools or tiny surgeons. Let me introduce you nanotechnology in healthcare.

Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle. An intriguing alternative view is that dark matter is made of black holes formed during the first second of our universe’s existence, known as primordial black holes.

Is our technology bringing us closer to the “Star Trek” vision of a world that isn’t driven by wealth?

Demo of lifelike interactive digital artist performance. This demo showcases one of the immediate possible applications for Mixed Reality.

We have brought to life a highly realistic, detailed character who performs for and interacts with users, while being rendered purely in real time on untethered mobile devices.

LIFELIKE DIGITAL CHARACTERS

What humans will look like in 100 years: Expert reveals the genetically modified bodies we’ll need to survive

• Harvard researchers says to survive the next extinction we must leave the Earth
• But to live on other planets we will need to genetically modify our organs
• Experts have previously speculated how humanity will look in 1,000 years’ time
• Video describes scenario in which bodies are part-human part-machine

By Harry Pettit For Mailonline

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Could a nano array that can identify the chemical signatures of diseases bring us closer to the day when doctors might be able to use a medical tricorder a la Star Trek to instantly diagnose a patient’s conditions?

Here are all 11 “Imagining” videos I’ve published. You can click on the buttons along the top to jump to any particular dimension whenever you want, or if you’ve got an hour and forty-four minutes to spare watch the whole thing! As always, please go to www.tenthdimension.com/blog for the latest about this project, or subscribe to me at twitter.com/10thdim

And thank you everyone for your continued support! We’ve now passed 27,000 subscribers, and youtube estimates that my videos have been watched on this channel for over 31 million minutes. That’s incredible!

David Brin: “Stephen Hawking writes that rising inequality makes this the most dangerous time for our planet. Why? In America and the West, inequality has only been rising (at accelerating rates) for a few decades, from its lowest levels in human history. 99% of our ancestors lived in far steeper hierarchies. So, in a sense, what’s the fuss?”

“Simple. The vast creativity of a middle class society made us so productive we could avoid a Malthusian collapse. But if we return to feudalism — as our New Oligarchs intend — then all of that will collapse. But seven billions won’t go down quietly. A billion of them have vast technological tools and skills that would make Robspierre, Lenin, Mao or Osama gulp with envy. You do NOT want to see the technical castes radicalize…”

“… yet that is exactly what the Murdoch-Koch + foreign oligarchs seem to have in mind. And that is why rising inequality is an existential threat to all humanity. Because we are led by conniving oligarchs who are clearly way, way less smart than they think they are. “.

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A new TED Talk from the author behind The Social Network features an oddly compelling story about the existence of aliens.