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Sep 22, 2018
Glimpse: On the Promise of a Future with Artificial Wombs, and Why It’s Being Stopped by the Present
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, transhumanism
Given the speed at which reproductive technology has advanced over the past few decades, it doesn’t feel all that far-fetched: A future in which anyone can have a baby, regardless of creed or need, whenever they feel like it. Already, in our present moment, one can buy or sell eggs and sperm; we can give embryos genetic tests to ensure the children they produce don’t have any life-threatening hereditary conditions; and babies can even be born, now, with the genetic information from three parents.
So it follows that we should soon be able to to have pregnancy outside the body — artificial wombs. R ight?
Sep 22, 2018
Glimpse: How Electronic Tattoos Will Change The World — And Ourselves
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: 3D printing
Engineers have invented a new kind of 3D printer that can print electronic tattoos directly on your skin. Here’s how we’ll use it.
Sep 22, 2018
Product: You can start inputting and controlling your Bluetooth enabled devices now!
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: futurism
Sep 22, 2018
David Sinclair — Can NMN Reverse Aging?
Posted by Cathy Miller in categories: biotech/medical, computing, life extension
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Coverage of the launch of NASA ICE’s #ICESat2, set for liftoff no earlier than Saturday, September 15 at 8:46 a.m. EDT! Join us as we embark on a mission to use lasers to measure the changing height of Earth’s ice:
Sep 22, 2018
A Look at Ultima Thule: New Horizons Next Destination
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Join us at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 19, as our experts discuss humanity’s farthest planetary flyby that is coming up on Jan. 1, 2019 of the mysterious object nicknamed “Ultima Thule”. The encounter will occur approximately 4 billion miles from Earth complementing the discoveries still coming from the mission’s epic July 2015 flight through the Pluto system.
Sep 22, 2018
‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years?
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience, transhumanism
A new fascinating feature is out by The Guardian magazine (via writer Richard Godwin) on the future of the human body. Six of us are interviewed and/or wrote about our take on the future. Fun reading! My mini-essay is in this: https://www.theguardian.com/…/regular-body-upgrades-what-wi… #transhumanism
Mechanical exoskeletons, bionic limbs, uploadable brains: six experts’ visions of 2118.
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Sep 22, 2018
Japan Has Enough Nuclear Material to Build an Arsenal. Its Plan: Recycle
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, nuclear energy
Japan has spent decades building a facility to turn nuclear waste into nuclear fuel, but neighbors fear it has other plans for its plutonium.
Sep 22, 2018
SpaceX gives us a glimpse of its Mars base vision
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
SpaceX chief Elon Musk has tweeted two photos that give us a peek into the company’s Martian dreams. One of the images shows the BFR, the massive rocket SpaceX is developing for deep space missions, while the other shows the BFR and what he called “Mars Base Alpha.” It’s no secret that the private space corporation wants to build a human settlement on the red planet. Back in 2017, it announced its plans to launch two BFR cargo missions to Mars by 2022 to prepare for the arrival of the first Martian settlers by 2024. Before any of that can happen, though, SpaceX has to be able to start testing its BFR system in the first half of 2019.