FEBRUARY 02/2014UPDATES. By Mr.Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
Mass unemployment fears over Google artificial intelligence plans
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10603933/Mass-unemployment-fears-over-Google-artificial-intelligence-plans.html
Should We Re-Engineer Ourselves?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pearce20140201
A New Physics Theory of Life
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/
Dr. Rachel Armstrong — Earth’s Bright Future
http://www.londonreal.tv/episodes/dr-rachel-armstrong-earths-bright-future/
The 5 Innovations That Will Change Everything, According to Elon Musk
http://ultraculture.org/blog/2014/01/31/elon-musk-5-innovations/
Google … Might Save Humanity From Extinction
The Future of Aerospace Management
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
The Coming Artilect War
http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/cosmist-terran-cyborgist-opinions-contributors-artificial-intelligence-09-hugo-de-garis.html
The Smartest Supermarket You Never Heard Of
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2014/01/28/h-e-b/
David Eagleman: Welcome to Your Future Brain
U.S. Government: Prioritize Technological Development to Increase Healthy Human Lifespans
http://www.change.org/petitions/u-s-government-prioritize-technological-development-to-increase-healthy-human-lifespans
The Most Significant Futurists of the Past 50 Years
http://creativenesswithahmed.blogspot.in/2014/01/the-most-significant-futurists-of-past.html
Future News : Pfizer heads to Cicero to test new life extension drug
http://thinkfuture.com/2013/10/03/news-from-the-future-pfizer-heads-to-cicero-to-test-new-life-extension-drug/
The Singularity and Mutational Load
Max More — The Singularity and Transhumanism
Behavior Oriented Trading Robot
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/behavior-oriented-trading-robot
Google is About to Create an Army of Robots
http://interestingengineering.com/google-is-about-to-create-an-army-of-robots/
IBM builds graphene chip that’s 10,000 times faster, using standard CMOS processes
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175727-ibm-builds-graphene-chip-thats-10000-times-faster-using-standard-cmos-processes
3-D scanning with your smartphone
http://m.phys.org/news/2014-01-d-scanning-smartphone.html
From Disembodied Bytes To Robots That Think & Act Like Humans
http://footnote1.com/from-disembodied-bytes-to-robots-that-think-act-like-humans/
Video Friday: DeepMind’s Shane Legg on Machine Superintelligence
Video Friday: DeepMind’s Shane Legg on Machine Superintelligence
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Actually, I Don’t Want To Live Forever — Here’s Why
http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-life-death-2014-1
Prosthetics: Meet the man with 13 legs
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140123-the-man-with-13-legs
Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision for Our Future Evolution
http://transhumanpotential.com/htptwp/
3D Printers Could be Banned by 2016 for Bioprinting Human Organs
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3d-printers-could-be-banned-by-2016-bioprinting-human-organs-1434221
Stem cell timeline: The history of a medical sensation
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24970-stem-cell-timeline-the-history-of-a-medical-sensation.html
A Change in the Legal Climate
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/01/31/change-legal-climate.html
NASA | Six Decades of a Warming Earth
The Future Will Belong to Those Who Can See It
The Future Will Belong to Those Who Can See It
Transhumanism and Mind Uploading Are Not the Same
Ray Kurzweil at Singularity University with the class of 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tZRi05934#t=4940
This Is What a Computer Sees When It Watches The Matrix
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/01/computer-sees-watches-matrix/?cid=17873404
The journey to predict the future: Kira Radinsky at TEDxHiriya
Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days in orbit
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/01/30/air-force-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-passes-400-days-in-orbit/
Getting Ready for Asteroids
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science/space/49789-getting-ready-for-asteroids.html
Plan Asserts Global Transition to Renewable Energy is Achievable by Mid-Century
http://www.btlonline.org/2014/seg/140131bf-btl-jacobson.html#.UuFyFZN12Hc.twitter
Senior U.S. spies warn of future security threats
http://io9.com/senior-u-s-spies-warn-of-future-security-threats-1512591889
The Human Memome Project
http://scistarter.com/project/779-The%20Human%20Memome%20Project
Vitamin D could slow MS progression
The Disruptive Nature of the Sharing Economy: Finding the Next Great Opportunities
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2014/02/the-disruptive-nature-of-the-sharing-economy-finding-the-next-great-opportunities/
QUOTATION: “…Digital code is what drives rapid speed growth today. It allows mergers like AOL Time Warner … It drives the Internet, TV, music, finance, IT, news coverage, research, manufacturing. A few countries and companies understood the change. That is how poor countries like Finland, Singapore, and Taiwan got so wealthy … So quickly … But a lot of folks just did not learn to read and write a new language … And even though they produced more and more goods, particularly commodities … And even though they restructured companies and governments … Cut budgets, raised taxes, built large factories and buildings … They got a lot poorer. (In 1938 the richest country per person in Asia was … the Philippines. In 1954, according to the World Bank, the most promising Asian economy was … Burma. Both remain commodity economies … Both are sidelined from the digital revolution … And you probably would not like to live in either country). Your world changed when you went ‘On Line.’ One day you used a fax or e-mail … And it soon became hard to conceive of living with only snail mail. If you understood this change early … And invested or worked in some of the companies driving the digital revolution … You are probably quite well off … (as a country and/or as an individual). If you came late, as a speculator, without understanding what a digital language does, or does not do … You probably lost a lot of money during the year 2000. Your world … and your language … are about to change again. The two nucleotide base pairs that code all life …A-T, C-G … Have already led some of the world’s largest companies … Monsanto … DuPont … Novartis … IBM … Hoechst … Compaq … GlaxoSmithKline … To declare that their future lies in life science. They have abandoned, sold, spun off core business divisions … And launched themselves into selling completely new products … Which is why so many chemical, seed, cosmetic, food, pharmaceutical companies … Are partnering, Merging, Growing. Some life-science companies will crash spectacularly … Others will get larger than Microsoft and Cisco … (Companies that are already larger than the economies of most of the world’s countries.). The world’s mega-mergers are going to be driven by digital and genetic code. Consider what is about to happen to medicine. You currently spend about nine times as much for doctors and medical interventions … As you do on medicines and prevention. In the measure that we understand how viruses, bacteria, and our bodies are programmed … And how they can be reprogrammed … Treatment will shift from emergency interventions … Toward deliberate and personalized prevention … (Just as dentistry did.). And we may end up spending just as much on pharmaceuticals as we do on doctors. These medicines do not have to be pills or injections … They could be a part of the food you eat every day, your soap or cosmetics … Perhaps you will inhale them or simply put various patches on your skin. (This is why Procter & Gamble is thinking of merging with a pharmaceutical company, why L’Oreal is hiring molecular biologists, and why Campbell’s is selling soups designed for hospital patients with specific diseases.)…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK: Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and how it will change our lives by Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler
ISBN-13: 978–0385522076
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
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