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Apr 22, 2017
Update: My Jacque Fresco interview and video on a Resource Based Economy via NowThis Future shared a few weeks ago now has 142,000 Facebook shares, 16,000 comments, 102,000 likes, and 12.3 million views
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: economics, transhumanism
Wow! For context, that’s nearly 4x times the amount of daily views that Bill O’Reilly used to get on his #1 cable show on Fox before he was fired. 
smile Give the video a view: https://www.facebook.com/NowThisFuture/videos/1500983249942850/ #transhumanism
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Apr 22, 2017
Elon Musk’s new company wants to link human brains with computers in 4 years
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience, space travel, sustainability
Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk said his latest company Neuralink is working to link the human brain with computers by creating micron-sized devices.
Neuralink is aiming to bring to the market a product that helps with certain severe brain injuries due to stroke and cancer lesion in about four years, Musk said in an interview with the website Wait But Why on Thursday.
“If I were to communicate a concept to you, you would essentially engage in consensual telepathy,” Musk said in the interview. Neuralink will be Musk’s third company along with Tesla and SpaceX.
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For two decades, the architect Stephen Valentine has been designing, planning and developing — though not yet building — a structure quite unlike anything built before. He calls the building Timeship and describes it as a repository for the technologies and people working to stretch the boundaries of being human, a Silicon Valley for life-extension research.
It’s the first take on an architecture of immortality, but is cryogenics hub Timeship a grand delusion or looming reality?
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Apr 21, 2017
Google says it is on track to definitively prove it has a quantum computer in a few months’ time
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, quantum physics
Apr 21, 2017
‘Negative mass’ created at Washington State University
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: physics
We are one step closer to actually creating an Alcuberre FTL drive…
Washington State University (WSU) physicists have created a fluid with “negative mass,” which means that if you push it, it accelerates toward you instead of away, in apparent violation of Newton’s laws.
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Apr 21, 2017
Thomas Pesquet, Space Photographer | Thales Group
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: space
“Over the last few months, Thomas Pesquet has been able to bring Space into thousands of households, especially their younger members.”
Apr 21, 2017
Special Address: Rajiv Shah, President, Rockefeller Foundation | Global Philanthropy Forum
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: innovation
“Rockefeller Foundation president Raj Shah discusses today’s “watershed moment for philanthropy.””
Apr 21, 2017
How Global Value Chains Push and Pull U.S. Companies on Climate Action — By Emilie Prattico | Business for Social Responsibility
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, energy, environmental
“But for most companies operating within global value chains, the pull and push of climate action also comes from abroad, and many U.S. companies now understand the potential to demonstrate global leadership through climate action.”
Apr 21, 2017
Quantum Cryptography Is Unbreakable. So Is Human Ingenuity — By Joshua Holden | Singularity Hub
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: security
“But that’s not really true. What is true is that pretty much anyone can get hold of software that, when used properly, is secure against any publicly known attacks. ”
