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Oct 28, 2018
Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: ethics, robotics/AI, transportation
Oct 28, 2018
In a Transhumanist Future, Everyday Could Be Halloween
Posted by B.J. Murphy in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, genetics, habitats, health, nanotechnology, transhumanism
In the spirit of Halloween, where ghouls, ghosts, and vampires walk among us, our perception of reality will soon transform as well, forever possessed by the specter of Transhumanism!
Last year, I wrote about how people could transform themselves into one of my favorite horror creatures—a real-life werewolf—using modern science and tech. This merely scratches the surface, however, in terms of how far an individual can go. In a Transhumanist future, you’ll be empowered to not only question the extent of your humanity but equally put those questions into action.
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Oct 28, 2018
How BrainNet Enabled 3 People to Directly Transmit Thoughts
Posted by Alexandros El in categories: internet, neuroscience, space
For a remarkably social species, we’re not particularly effective communicators.
Finding the right words to clearly, efficient transmit our thoughts to another consciousness—even something as simple as driving directions—can be a challenge, especially in-the-moment and under pressure.
What if we could do away with words altogether? What if, rather than relying on an intermediary, we could directly transmit our thoughts through a digital, internet-like space into another mind?
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Oct 28, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Life Of A Fighter Podcast — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, innovation, life extension, neuroscience
Oct 28, 2018
The Cubli a cube that can jump up, balance, and walk
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Oct 28, 2018
China’s 1st private rocket fails after launch
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Oct 28, 2018
Biostorm: A Story of Future War
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, military
This article is the latest addition to the U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Mad Scientist Initiative’s Future of Warfare 2030–2050 project at Small Wars Journal. Based on ideas developed in the SciTech Futures Technology Foresight Game: Bioconvergence and the Soldier of 2050, which was conducted by the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies. Supported by the SciTech Futures Technology Effort under the office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research & Technology). The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect official views or policies of the United States Army.
THE YEAR IS 2042…
The US and its remaining NATO allies are engaged in a limited war with the Mektigfolk, an ultra-nationalist techno-state that emerged from northern Europe during the reactionary upheavals that swept the continent in 2026.
Oct 28, 2018
China has strongest fibre that can haul 160 elephants – and a space elevator?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: military, nanotechnology
Oct 28, 2018
Mars Colony Prize — Design the First Human Settlement on Mars
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, economics, food, robotics/AI, space travel
The Mars Society is holding a special contest called The Mars Colony Prize for designing the best plan for a Mars colony of 1000 people. There will be a prize of $10,000 for first place, $5,000 for second and $2500 for third. In addition, the best 20 papers will be published in a book — “Mars Colonies: Plans for Settling the Red Planet.”
The Mars colony should be self-supporting to the maximum extent possible – i.e. relying on a minimum mass of imports from Earth. In order to make all the things that people need on Earth takes a lot more than 1000 people, so you will need to augment both the amount and diversity of available labor power through the use of robots and artificial intelligence. You will need to be able to both produce essential bulk materials like food, fabrics, steel, glass, and plastics on Mars, and fabricate them into useful structures, so 3D printing and other advanced fabrication technologies will be essential. The goal is to have the colony be able to produce all the food, clothing, shelter, power, common consumer products, vehicles, and machines for 1000 people, with only the minimum number of key components, such as advanced electronics needing to be imported from Earth.
As noted, imports will always be necessary, so you will need to think of useful exports – of either material or intellectual products that the colony could produce and transport or transit back to Earth to pay for them. In the future, it can be expected that the cost of shipping goods from Earth to Mars will be $500/kg and the cost of shipping goods from Mars to Earth will be $200/kg. Under these assumptions, your job is to design an economy, cost it out, and show that after a certain initial investment in time and money, that it can become successful.
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