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Nov 2, 2016
AMA: I’m Zoltan Istvan, a transhumanist US Presidential Candidate. Ask me anything!! : Futurology
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, computing, cyborgs, economics, geopolitics, life extension, military, robotics/AI, transhumanism
Come “ask me anything” right now!!! I’m trying to answer all questions I get asked:
Hi Reddit,
Thank you for having me here. My name is Zoltan Istvan, and I’m a futurist, journalist, and science fiction writer. I’m also the 2016 Presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party.
Nov 2, 2016
What Does Gene Editing Mean for the Future?
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical
Nov 2, 2016
Could A Black Hole Be Blocking The Light From That ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star?
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: cosmology
Nov 2, 2016
Aging, Just Another Disease
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, computing, life extension
Aging leads to diseases and ultimately death. Time for people to ditch the semantics and recognise that aging and disease are not two mysterious independent processes but are in fact one and the same.
Aging leads to the diseases of aging and the discussion is largely a matter of semantics.
“The concept of aging is undergoing a rapid transformation in medicine. The question has long been asked: Is aging a natural process that should be accepted as inevitable, or is it pathologic, a disease that should be prevented and treated? For the vast majority of medicine’s history, the former position was considered a self-evident truth. So futile was any attempt to resist the ravages of aging that the matter was relegated to works of fantasy and fiction. But today, the biomedical community is rethinking its answer to this question.
Nov 2, 2016
This Desalination System Uses Waves To Create Drinking Water
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: futurism, innovation
Nov 2, 2016
If You Upload Your Mind to the Cloud—Would You Still Be You?
Posted by Elmar Arunov in category: futurism
From time to time, the Singularity Hub editorial team unearths a gem from the archives and wants to share it all over again. It’s usually a piece that was popular back then and we think is still relevant now. This is one of those articles. It was originally published January 25, 2015. We hope you enjoy it!
Nov 2, 2016
SoftBank Is Investing in a Microchip to Make the Singularity a Reality
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: existential risks, robotics/AI, singularity
In Brief:
- As part of a strategy to prepare for the Singularity, Japanese telecom multinational SoftBank spent $31 billion to acquire microprocessing company ARM.
- This hypothetical day in the future when machine intelligence surpasses that of humanity may not be the doomsday it is portrayed as in much of pop culture.
Nov 1, 2016
CenturyLink Buys Level 3 for $34 Billion
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in category: internet
Nov 1, 2016
Physicists might have found a way to break the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: energy, quantum physics, space
The laws of thermodynamics are some of the most important principles in modern physics, because they define how three fundamental physical quantities — temperature, energy, and entropy — behave under various circumstances.
But now physicists say they’ve found a loophole in one of these laws, and it could create scenarios in which entropy — or disorder — actually decreases with time.
Thanks to modern physics, almost everything in the Universe can be explained according to two theories: general relativity for the big stuff like stars, galaxies, and the Universe itself; and quantum mechanics, for behaviours on the atomic scale.
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