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Mar 6, 2019

San Francisco 2036: The Story of the First “Cyberian” Trillionaire and Countdown to the Singularity

Posted by in categories: genetics, robotics/AI, singularity, virtual reality

Going forward into our exponential future…


“By our very nature, we humans are linear thinkers. We evolved to estimate a distance from the predator or to the prey, and advanced mathematics is only a recent evolutionary addition. This is why it’s so difficult even for a modern man to grasp the power of exponentials. 40 steps in linear progression is just 40 steps away; 40 steps in exponential progression is a cool trillion (with a T) – it will take you 3 times from Earth to the Sun and back to Earth.” –Alex M. Vikoulov, The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution.

Today is a special day for me. My AI assistant Ava scheduled few hours aside from my otherwise busy daily lineup to relive select childhood and adolescence memories recreated in virtual reality with a help of a newly developed AI technique ‘Re: Live’. Ava is my smart home assistant, too. I can rearrange furniture in any room, for example, just by thinking. Digital landscape wallpaper is changed by Ava by knowing my preferences and sensing my moods.

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Mar 6, 2019

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

Posted by in category: futurism

The Work Issue

New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter.

Credit credit illustration by james graham.

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Mar 6, 2019

Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level.

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Mar 6, 2019

Waymo Built a Secret World for Self-Driving Cars

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

An exclusive look at how Alphabet understands its most ambitious artificial intelligence project.

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Mar 6, 2019

How to Design Streets for Humans—and Self-Driving Cars

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

A new blueprint from city transportation planners and engineers, who say it’s never too early to start thinking about the future.

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Mar 6, 2019

Aging Analytics Agency has released a prototype version of its interactive online Longevity Industry Analytics platform and database

Posted by in category: life extension

This platform was applied for the first time in our newly released Longevity Industry in Singapore report, utilizing data on the companies, investors, research labs and non-profit organizations featured in the report.

Aging Analytics Agency is planning to implement a number of updates, additions and enhancement for this platform in the coming months, including interactive and filterable mindmaps, infographics and network diagrams illustrating connections and interactions within the global Longevity Industry, as well as additional features, to be introduced throughout 2019.

Link to Platform: http://mindmaps.aginganalytics.com/

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Mar 6, 2019

The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World

Posted by in categories: information science, mathematics, quantum physics, transportation

In my 50s, too old to become a real expert, I have finally fallen in love with algebraic geometry. As the name suggests, this is the study of geometry using algebra. Around 1637, René Descartes laid the groundwork for this subject by taking a plane, mentally drawing a grid on it, as we now do with graph paper, and calling the coordinates x and y. We can write down an equation like x + y = 1, and there will be a curve consisting of points whose coordinates obey this equation. In this example, we get a circle!

It was a revolutionary idea at the time, because it let us systematically convert questions about geometry into questions about equations, which we can solve if we’re good enough at algebra. Some mathematicians spend their whole lives on this majestic subject. But I never really liked it much until recently—now that I’ve connected it to my interest in quantum physics.

If we can figure out how to reduce topology to algebra, it might help us formulate a theory of quantum gravity.

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Mar 6, 2019

The Twins That Are Neither Identical nor Fraternal

Posted by in category: futurism

They shared a placenta, but on the ultrasound, one looked like a boy, and the other a girl.

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Mar 6, 2019

The A.I. Diet

Posted by in categories: food, government, information science, robotics/AI

Opinion

Forget government-issued food pyramids. Let an algorithm tell you how to eat.

Credit Credit Erik Blad

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Mar 6, 2019

Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information

Posted by in category: law

You’ve probably never heard of many of the data firms registered under a new law, but they’ve heard a lot about you. A list, and tips for opting out.

[Source image: ksenia_bravo/iStock].

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