I just discovered that a second 12-min video on transhumanism was done by YouTube personalities Rhett and Link on Good Morning MORE. This one explores transhumanism in a balanced but humorous way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjYbcxeXn88
Their first transhumanism video on Good Mythical Morning is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1PF99LtBLQ
Have you ever made a list of pet peeves? I’m not referring to the behavioral quirks that couples develop over years of cohabitation. That’s part of every relationship and it is only addressed through give and take and a lot of patience. Rather, I refer to the little things that have become institutionalized all around us—and yet, we know that they are just plain idiotic. The problem is that they are too small to be picked up by the national news and too common to believe that they can be avoided.
Let’s say that you are driving along a road that comes to an end by forming a ‘T’ at the side of a much busier road. The cross street is busy, but it’s not divided. You plan to make a left turn after clearing a string of high-speed cars approaching from the right.
Conditions are good and there are no obstructions. There is no one coming from the left. Looking to the right, you can see a mile down the road. There are 4 cars speeding toward you, a long space and then a major throng of cars that will tie up the intersection for minutes. You get ready to drop the hammer as soon as that 4th car passes the intersection. You are patient, in a good mood and your car is well tuned.
What’s the dumbest thing that the driver in car #4 could do? Does he have the power to ruin your day and raise your blood pressure while trying to be a nice guy? He sure does!
He can hesitate—slowing just enough to get honked by the parade behind him and just enough to close your window of opportunity. If you are in a hurry to get somewhere, he will ruin your morning faster than you can mime “Move your friggin’ tailpipe!!”. He is oblivious to the fact that his gesture of good will has backfired.
Cross street drivers who let up on the gas are one of my three pet peeves. But today, I was reminded of another minor irritation. From now on, I will call it “Pet Peeve #4”.
I have a good friend in Germany. He is a high tech entrepreneur and tends to move about the globe. His businesses are in Australia and New Zealand, and he spent a long part of the past year in Shanghai. I never know where he will be. But he is currently in Germany and he knows that I am in America.
Realizing that we need to discuss an important matter, he asks me if I will be available during my weekday mornings, between 9 and 11 AM my time. Noting that he has already contemplated the time difference, I check my calendar. “Sure. That works for me,” I tell him… “Why don’t you set the schedule? Any morning this week is good.” He commits to have a colleague figure out the final date.
Minutes later, I receive a Google Calendar link for my approval. It asks that our meeting be scheduled for next Wed from 21:30 to 22:00, India Standard Time. I was unprepared for the involuntary groan that arose from the pit of my stomach. Here, is an open letter to my buddy and the colleague who scheduled our conference to be held on India Time…
C’mon guys / gals… The Internet works on “Internet Time”, also known as UTC or GMT. It is effectively Earth time. It never changes with seasons, war, edict, accidents or daylight savings. It just moves forward as the universal heartbeat of the Internet.
Please don’t make me translate your Indian Standard Time. I will get it wrong. I always do.
And please don’t figure it out in “USA-Eastern Standard Time”. Here in the US, politicians shift Daylight Savings dates, sometimes splitting it by local counties. In some areas, they change it by only 30 minutes for border towns. (Yes! We are that nuts).
So please: Just tell me the time in UTC. It is the only time that should ever be cited when dealing with anyone that you can’t reach with a personal handshake.
P.S. Don’t take insult when I post your suggested meeting time (and this sarcastic response) to Lifeboat. Sure, you helped me to discover a new peeve—But you have also hit upon my funny bone!
Faithfully yours, ~Phil
Philip Raymond is Co-Chair of The Cryptocurrency Standards Association. He sits on the New Money Systems Board at Lifeboat and advises banks & brokers on new age currencies. Raymond was master of ceremonies and speaker at The Bitcoin Event in New York.
Robert Szczerba | The Next Web
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TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE POINT BY TONY BUZAN AND THE AUTHOR OF THE WHITE SWAN (ANDRES AGOSTINI), LET US CREATE A DIALOGUE SIMULACRUM BY BART SIMPSON AND HOMER SIMPSON.
TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE POINT BY BUZAN AND THE AUTHOR, LET US CREATE A DIALOGUE SIMULACRUM BY BART SIMPSON AND HOMER SIMPSON.
Bart: Dad, why do you say that knowledge is a soup?
Homer: Son, because since time immemorial and before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, every type of knowledge was somewhat related to the other type. Tony does some nice chatting about it.
Bart: Dad, what is the Industrial Revolution? But in the process, don’t dictate me an academic lecture and scholarship, please!
Homer: Son, the Industrial Revolution is Day #1 when humans decided to throw in the towel and to make inanimate apparatus to rule the entire human race, thus ruling out hominids.
Bart: Is that Day #1 for Home Personal Computers making?
Homer: For PC making and the ensuing bots!
Bart: What do you mean by bots?
Homer: Those anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic apparatus that stem from Swiss-clockwork manufacturing and some other naughty gadgets by Leo.
Bart: What do you mean by naughty gadgets by Leonardo? Is that the same Leo of the Priory of Sion?
Homer: Yes. Leo’s automaton one, that, I guess, some architect or technologist have resembled and proved utility in that and so the tic-tact-toe thing went into inexhaustible infinity until its own destruction by tear and wear.
Bart: And what is the problem with building a tic-tact-toe thing, rumbling around?
Homer: My son, you are so naive. There is no problem with the tic-tact-toe thing rumbling around. The problem is that Siren Servers are planning to bestow such rumbling-around tic-tact-toe things with beyond-human-thinking capabilities. In the process, some rara avis and pigeons might become endangered species.
Bart: Dad, you must be jockeying! Are you, Dad, suggesting that real-world and present-day humans are entertaining the idea of enabling the worst nightmares predicted by Luddites and Proto-Luddites?
Homer: Well, Bart, the problem with you is that you haven’t read the Singularity is Near. There is no problem because in that book it is cherished that by a bird’s and a bee’s type of transubstantiation thing humans and apparatus will become one single entity. And thus mortality will become an unfashionable thing of the past.
Bart: Dad, but some spooky reasons beyond my understanding Jaron says, like Gerald Celente, that we need to become Siren-Servers advert and be careful that home PCs don’t stand-up and start flying and self-replicating and giving birth to upgraded tic-tac-toe devices.
Homer: Jaron, who?
Bart: That is, Jaron Lanier. He dearly harbors the serious notion of the Siren Servers (ISBN: 978–1451654974).
Homer: Bart, I don’t know that gentleman? What is that silly subtle point you are trying to make with me? To the point, please!
Bart: The problem is that Jaron argues that the man with the outlandish public laughter, a bit out of public proportion and without grace and appalling gusto, is set out, through his Siren Servers’ web-based store, to use rumbling-around tic-tact-toe and beyond-human-thinking capabilities things to do acrobatic-midair hovering, superseding watermelon-sized hovercrafts.
Homer: Son, if that is so anguishly true, I must declare you a shrewd, mordant brainchild. Why Caustic Monsieur Highest-Volume Laughter (ASIN: B007GPYLH0) would want those insane entities to do midair hovering?
Bart: Daddy, so that he can get his non-clouded-based products and cash-capturing to arrive on the customer’s hands, delivering quamtumly-encrypted materials, without the snailed-paced best offices of and by FEDEX or UPS.
Homer: But Bart, when the gentleman in question met with Charlie, did he hint something about you in-point stuff?
Bart: Charlie, Charlie who?
Homer: Charlie Rose, the Bloomberg TV’s journalist and nighttime interviewer, remember?
Bart: Yes, I do. But the Lanier guy says that the tic-tact-toe thing, beyond being smarter than a human device and hovering in the midair spatial plane, it is also going to be wirelessly connected in the temporal locus with the World-Wide Web and it is also going to be able to sequester wireless electricity, too.
Homer: Oh my God, son! Are you sure that you are NOT into the Scottish Rite?
Bart: Are you hinting me to be associated with the foundational architects of Washington D.C.?
Homer: Bart, are you suggesting that Mr. Laughter might as well be using Recondite and Hermetic Knowledge to make the tic-tac-toe a superrich-fortune-generating after-tax wealth, to out-compete Gates III and Buffett I?
Bart: You are close, Dad, but not close enough! Sure thing, Mr. Laughter will secure Recondite and Hermetic Knowledge. But in order to be even more technical and prepared, he is additionally going to use Andy’s practical idea on non-theological applied omniscience. Got it? He will, then, get his White Swan as his Swiss and Jersey Bankers will confirm his in-pocketed CASH. Thence, he will rule many Siren Servers!
Homer: What is the White Swan’s non-theological applied omniscience?
Bart: An invention by DARPA and NASA, greatly propelled by Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard and Dr. Wernher von Braun. And before you ask, NASA is a spinoff by DARPA and DoD. And DARPA is where America’s most sophisticated ground-breaking hotbed-ed scientists reside, research and provide.
Homer: What is a White Swan?
Bart: The beforehand destruction of corporation’s MOST exponential risks and downside futures, transformed into insane richness and gold.
Homer: Do you think that these watermelon-sized wireless ubiquitous hovercrafts (quadracopters) will get into reproducing their non-biological specie?
Bart: Well, Joel and Orson argue that they will make self-replicating and self-upgrading watermelon-sized wireless hovercrafts. They say that the air traffic will be so jammed by the un-biological thinking and mating (reproducing) creatures that jet number 1 won’t be able to take off.
Homer: What Joel and Orson are those?
Bart: The one of the Radical Evolution (ISBN: 978–0767915038). Dad, where do you think these trends will take us to? Orson is a hell-of-American intellectual and movie director and maker that shocked TV viewers with the invasion of and by alien intelligences from the Omniverse’s Recondite and Hermetic: Dark Energy and Dark Matter. To this end, Olson explains his case below.
Homer: I first must correct you. I agree with Andy. He does not like the oversimplified “trend” and “countertrend” words. He says that trend is like a head-shot of a frozen dynamic projected trajectory, only bestowed by the Dynamic Driving Forces. If the Disruptional Singularity warrants it only, the Dynamic Driving Forces will, then, take us into Ray’s Technological Singularity.
Bart: I am confused! What are those singularities about?
Homer: The techie one is about birthing non-biological and transbiological humans that supersede the computational reckoning by today’s human brain. And making natural death an outright thing of the past. The Disruptional one is about human error, terror and flawness making waves in civilian and military spheres, including the imposition of the Cold War II by the express impious deeds of the Euro-Asian superpower as per the invite, not of the U.S., of the naive E.U. so-called “leaders.”
Bart: Can the self-replicating and self-upgrading watermelon-sized wireless hovercrafts carry improvised “x” devices?
Homer: I doubt it, Mr. Laughter has every White Swan calculated in detail. And White Swans hates every form of disruptions and are rara avis that destroy threats and risks.
Bart: What can a White Swan do for the most prominent Seattle inhabitant?
Homer: Make his core-business EVEN infinitely richer while securing a better laughter outpouring to the East Coast of the Atlantic.
Bart: Dad, how can we get on the boat on making wealth like him?
Homer: Through two quick ways. First, by doing smart entrepreneuring. Second, by doing the “…First…” through the White Swan.
Bart: Why is it necessary the White Swan?
Homer: First, in order not to get silly black swans. Second, in order to make your coped-with black swans into beautiful and lucrative White Swans through Transformative and Integrative Risk Management interdisciplinary problem-solving methodology. (That is: Feet-on-the-ground problem solving).
Bart: And What is Transformative and Integrative Risk Management interdisciplinary problem-solving methodology?
Homer: Andy’s interdisciplinary approach to Seize Success, Preclude the Disruptional Singularity and enable Ray’s Technological Singularity.
Bart: How do you define success?
Homer: To this end, Andy says that Success is achieved in two simultaneous ways. FIRST, By securing all of your designated objectives and goals, despite competitors and governments. SECOND, By securing that, as you over-accomplish your designated objectives and goals, you give your competitors tons of Sputnik Moments.
Bart: Oh, I see. Buy what is that Rusky notion that I don’t get?
Homer: Sputnik moments are when you are superseded by your competitors as they throw at you manipulated strategies and technological innovations to disrupt your business from competing. And if you are getting Sputnik moments is because you are doing, without consciousness, black swans only and are not responsive to the White Swan idea.
Bart: Dad, that sounds a bit complicated.
Homer: Bart, for some things you are smart. And for others you are a fool. Competition between business enterprises are harsh actions by Frederick The Great and Emperor Napoleon I.
Bart: Dad, why are you teaching me history? I hate that knowledge field.
Homer: Bart, if you don’t learn history, you are set out to fail at entrepreneuring! You can have all the high tech you want but if you don’t know how to do your strategy right and do right with your risks and futures, you are destined to be bankrupted.
Bart: Dad, Are all entrepreneurs and corporation CEOs and chairpersons so anti-shrewd?
Homer: 97% of them are! Those guys and gals think that by having tons of servers and web-based mobile applications they will outsmart the competition and governments. Hence, they are immeasurably wrong!
Bart: Dad, so one needs to go further than having laptops, servers, kindles, e-readers, i-pads, i-phones and so forth? Are those the employment of what Andy and other call tangibles.
Homer: Yes, son. You gotta do your intangibles. Even tangibles are made up of intangibles. The world is ruled by intangibles. Stated simply, intangibles are Intellectual Capital. You see, not only corporations have Intellectual Capital but also sole proprietors as Andy and Ray. White Swan and Transformative and Integrative Risk Management are Intellectual Capitals, solely owned by Andy.
Bart: Is software contemplated within your Intellectual Capital definition?
Homer: Yes, software is an intangible and an Intellectual Capital. And, for the sake of clarity, you can even have a systematized interdisciplinary methodology in place that does not need computerization or web-basing. You see, Bart, everything under Computronium’s Sun (its own Star) is always, whether we know it or not, reckoning zillion calculations.
Bart: Is the biological mind a good example of a systematized hardware whose locus does not belong to W3?
Homer: Yes, it is. And you can also add that the bio-PC is systematic and yet, in many cases, not systemic.
Bart: And beyond patents and other copyrighted materials, What else is Intellectual Capital?
Homer: Two-fold question. FIRST, there is the knowledge base of the Corporation. SECOND, there is the knowledge base of each Corporation’s employee beyond any property and/or effort by said Corporation.
Bart: Who owns Tony Buzan’s Broth and Soup?
Homer: Well, Tony’s soup has a primordial genesis in people and civilizations from: Classic Ancient Greeks, Classic Ancient Romans and Latins, Classic Ancient Aryans and Germanics, Classic Ancient Scandinavians and, for instance, Classic Ancient Egyptians and Classic Ancient Phoenicians. And the idea by all of them is that the totality of knowledge does not have clearly-human-made knowledge (system) demarcations (boundaries). And superspecialization and overspecialization are NEVER recommended by these Classic Ancient civilizations.
Bart: And because of that by you is that Andy suggests to swiftly and thoroughly embrace the non-theological omniscience notion, just as DARPA, NASA and Shell do since the early 1950s.
Homer: Bart, you are becoming most mordant and probably into the Illuminatis? Are you?
END OF THE EXCHANGE SIMULACRUM.
You are welcome to read the White Swan here.
The White Swan’s Beyond Eureka and Sputnik Moments: How To Fundamentally Cope With Corporate Litmus Tests and With The Impact of the Dramatic Highly Improbable And Succeed Through Transformative and Integrative Risk Management! [TREATISE EXCERPT]. By © Copyright 2014 Mr. Andres Agostini — All Rights Reserved Worldwide — « https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan »
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FEBRUARY 08/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
MITRE-Harvard nanocomputer may point the way to future computer miniaturization
http://www.kurzweilai.net/mitre-harvard-nanocomputer-may-point-the-way-to-future-computer-miniaturization
New form of graphene allows electrons to behave like photons
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-form-of-graphene-allows-electrons-to-behave-like-photons
The first flexible, transparent, and conductive material
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-first-flexible-transparent-and-conductive-material
Adidas Says Under Armour Infringed Its Wearable-Tech Patents
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-05/adidas-says-under-armour-infringed-its-wearable-tech-patents
The Best Science and Engineering Visualizations of 2013
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/2013-sciviz-winners/
How To Keep Museums Alive In The Age Of Minecraft
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026074/how-to-keep-museums-alive-in-the-age-of-minecraft
Disrupting Death: These Customized Tombstones Let You Take Your Colorful Personality To The Grave
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3025033/disrupting-death-these-customized-tombstones-let-you-take-your-colorful-personality-to-the-g
SolarCoin cryptocurrency pays you to go green
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25010-solarcoin-cryptocurrency-pays-you-to-go-green.html#.UvQTboXSmHc
Bio-Hackers Pore Through A Child’s DNA For The Source of A Mysterious Disease
Bio-Hackers Pore Through A Child’s DNA For The Source of A Mysterious Disease
Man With 3-D Printer Prints 3-D Printer That Prints 3-D Printer That Prints 3-D Printer
http://thelapine.ca/man-with-3-d-printer-prints-3-d-printer-that-prints-3-d-printer-that-prints-3-d-printer/
The death of the statistician
DSC Webinar Series: Data Contributions to a Conversational AI Platform
Ford’s data scientist: Keep all the data and sort it out later
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/06/fords-data-scientist-keep-all-the-data-and-sort-it-out-later/
How I came to love big data (or at least acknowledge its existence)
http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3315-how-i-came-to-love-big-data-or-at-least-acknowledge-its-existence
IBM opens access to SaaS portfolio to help African Universities with next-generation IT skills
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43122.wss
World’s “least corrupt” nations fail to police bribery abroad
World’s “least corrupt” nations fail to police bribery abroad
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF)
http://www.bt.com.au/help/anti-money-laundering-and-counter-terrorism-financing.asp
3D Printing Central to Future Military Strategy
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7074/3D-Printing-Central-to-Future-Military-Strategy.aspx
Elio Motors and the Three Wheeled Car — A Moonshot Project
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7093/Elio-Motors-and-the-Three-Wheeled-Car–A-Moonshot-Project.aspx
When will 3D Printing Reach a Mass Consumer Audience?
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7080/When-will-3D-Printing-Reach-a-Mass-Consumer-Audience.aspx
7 Steps to an Awesome Technical Presentation (Part 1 of 4)
http://www.engineering.com/Jobs/JobArticles/ArticleID/7068/7-Steps-to-an-Awesome-Technical-Presentation-Part-1-of-4.aspx
Top 10 STEM Puns
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7075/Top-10-STEM-Puns.aspx
Dude, Where’s My Hydrogen Car?
http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesignArticles/ArticleID/7070/Dude-Wheres-My-Hydrogen-Car.aspx
New Farm Bill Provides Long-Overdue Eligibility for Renewable Chemicals
http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/new-farm-bill-provides-long-overdue-eligibility-renewable-chemicals
Legislation Introduced To Communicate Prescription Changes to Patients & Physicians
http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/legislation-introduced-communicate-prescription-changes-patients-physicians
Bioscience Economic Development
http://www.bio.org/articles/bioscience-economic-development
First graphene radio broadcast is a wireless wonder
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24976-first-graphene-radio-broadcast-is-a-wireless-wonder.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|online-news
An nanoscale electrical switch for magnetism
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34222.php
How to Make a Better Invisibility Cloak—With Lasers
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/how-to-make-a-better-invisibility-cloakwith-lasers
Can Graphene Enable Thermal Transistors?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/can-graphene-enable-thermal-transistors?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrumSemiconductors+%28IEEE+Spectrum%3A+Semiconductors%29
A new twist to sodium ion battery technology
http://www.materialstoday.com/energy/news/a-new-twist-to-sodium-ion-battery-technology/
New “Photodetector” Nanotechnology Allows Photos in Near Darkness
http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=29284
Self-aligning DNA wires have been constructed for nanoelectronics
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/self-aligning-dna-wires-have-been-constructed-nanoelectronics
Nanocatalyst helps a greenhouse gas turn over a new leaf
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34230.php
IBM claims to make “first fully functioning” graphene IC
Quantum dots provide complete control of photons
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/quantum-dots-provide-complete-control-photons
Quicker method paves the way for atomic-level design
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34226.php#ixzz2sark76Sf
Rice lab clocks “hot” electrons
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/rice-lab-clocks-%E2%80%9Chot%E2%80%9D-electrons
Arianespace Successfully Delivers Its 250th Launch
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/02/06/arianespace-successfully-delivers-its-250th-launch/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
From Occupy to Climate Justice
http://www.thenation.com/article/178242/occupy-climate-justice?page=0,1
Chinese Factories Are Ordered to Release Data on Real-Time Emissions Levels
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-06/chinese-factories-ordered-to-release-data-on-real-time-emissions-levels
When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/when-will-genomics-cure-cancer/355739/
Visitors to Sochi Olympics will be instantly hacked
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/visitors-to-sochi-olympics-will-be-instantly-hacked-201318818.html
FAO Food Price Index falls despite climbing dairy prices
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/213481/icode/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=FAOnews&utm_content=gk
Tapstream Is Making Mobile Ads Smarter With “Deferred Deep Links,” A Way To Point Users To App Landing Pages After They Install
23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/15-12/ff_genomics?currentPage=all
20 unpronounceable tech brands — and how to say them
http://www.itworld.com/it-management/403502/20-unpronounceable-tech-brands-and-how-say-them
Can Twitter’s Big Data Influence The Music Business?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2014/02/06/can-twitters-big-data-influence-the-music-business/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Venture capital’s stunning lack of female decision-makers
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/06/venture-capitals-stunning-lack-of-female-decision-makers/?utm_content=bufferfddfe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Artificial intelligence: the companies behind Britain’s ‘smart’ revolution
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10610734/Artificial-intelligence-the-companies-behind-Britains-smart-revolution.html
As artificial intelligence grows, so do ethical concerns
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/As-artificial-intelligence-grows-so-do-ethical-5194466.php
Computing with silicon neurons: Scientists use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140128094539.htm
‘Friendly’ robots could allow for more realistic human-android relationships
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140206082401.htm
6 Exponential Technologies of Tomorrow
http://www.wfs.org/content/6-exponential-technologies-tomorrow
Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/20/anti-ageing-human-trials
U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another
U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another
New Stratasys 3D Printer Makes Multi-Material, Full Color Parts in a Single Run
New Stratasys 3D Printer Makes Multi-Material, Full Color Parts in a Single Run
Do You Trust Internet-Connected Appliances Enough To Let Them Run Your Home?
Do You Trust Internet-Connected Appliances Enough To Let Them Run Your Home?
Illumina Claims New Sequencer Transcribes 18,000 Genomes per Year at $1,000 Each
Illumina Claims New Sequencer Transcribes 18,000 Genomes per Year at $1,000 Each
Simple Method for Creating Stem Cells Promises Cheaper, Faster Therapies
Simple Method for Creating Stem Cells Promises Cheaper, Faster Therapies
Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual
Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual
Rejections for Sandy Grants Are Questioned
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303496804579365431674359994?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303496804579365431674359994.html&mod=e2tw
New Inexpensive Skin Test in Development to Diagnose Malaria in an Instant
New Inexpensive Skin Test in Development to Diagnose Malaria in an Instant
uArm, A Mini Robotic Arm You Can Assemble and Control
QUOTATION(S): “…It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring…” AND “…Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion…”
CITATION(S): “…HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IS DOUBLING EVERY TEN YEARS [AS PER THE 1998 STANDARDS].…COMPUTER POWER IS DOUBLING EVERY EIGHTEEN MONTHS. THE INTERNET IS DOUBLING EVERY YEAR. THE NUMBER OF DNA SEQUENCES WE CAN ANALYZE IS DOUBLING EVERY TWO YEARS…”
BOOK(S): Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku. ISBN-13: 978–0307473332
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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FEBRUARY 05/2014 UPDATES [LIST]. By Mr. Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
Do autistic brains create more information at rest or do they have weaker connectivity — or both?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/do-autistic-brains-create-more-information-at-rest-or-do-they-have-weaker-connectivity-or-both
‘Electronic tongue’ identifies brands of beer with 81.9% accuracy
http://www.kurzweilai.net/electronic-tongue-identifies-brands-of-beer-with-81-9-accuracy
Bodily maps of emotions
http://www.kurzweilai.net/bodily-maps-of-emotions
Antibiotic ‘smart bomb’ can target specific strains of bacteria
http://www.kurzweilai.net/antibiotic-smart-bomb-can-target-specific-strains-of-bacteria
Trends and Predictions: How the Future Looks Like for Web Design in 2014
Trends and Predictions: How the Future Looks Like for Web Design in 2014
Credit cards of the future: 4 exciting trends
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/credit-cards-of-the-future-4-exciting-trends-cm128025#ixzz2sMsGbooH
The 5 foods best-suited for 3D printing
http://www.fooddive.com/news/the-5-foods-best-suited-for-3d-printing/222556/
Nature is Not Human-Centric
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2014/01/nature-is-not-human-centric/
Your Brain Is Fine-Tuning Its Wiring Throughout Your Life
http://myscienceacademy.org/2014/02/03/your-brain-is-fine-tuning-its-wiring-throughout-your-life/?fb_action_ids=10152136722100795&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[238069896376047]&action_type_map=[%22og.likes%22]&action_ref_map=[]
The World’s Smallest Engine Runs on a Single Atom
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/extreme-machines/the-worlds-smallest-engine-runs-on-a-single-atom-16451781
Guest column: Constituent care — Are government contact centers ready for the generational flood?
http://fedscoop.com/guest-column-constituent-care-government-contact-centers-ready-generational-flood/#.UvAFKBasOSY.twitter
Searching for Life on Earth-Like Planets May Be a Mistake, Need to Consider Superhabitable Planets
Searching for Life on Earth-Like Planets May Be a Mistake, Need to Consider Superhabitable Planets
Survey says more attention being paid to data privacy, but still a ways to go
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/013114-survey-says-more-attention-being-278332.html?source=nww_rss&utm_content=buffer90b74&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Quantum engineers make a major step towards a scalable quantum computer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/quantum-engineers-make-a-major-step-towards-a-scalable-quantum-computer
Was There A Beginning Of Time And Will There Be An End Of Time?
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/timeslowingdown.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Messagetoeaglecom+%28Message+To+Eagle+-+News%29#.UvEN9LTSmHd
DHS has become the epicenter for government cybersecurity
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/32882?c=cyber_security
THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: Official Trailer
http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/89414/the-future-of-the-mind/
What the Internet of Things Will Mean for CIOs
http://www.cio.com/article/747634/What_the_Internet_of_Things_Will_Mean_for_CIOs
Why predictive maintenance is more relevant today than ever before
http://www.simafore.com/blog/bid/204618/Why-predictive-maintenance-more-relevant-today-than-ever-before
Stanford scientists put free text-analysis tool on the web
http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/stanford-scientists-put-free-text-analysis-tool-web
Dangerous ideas: About that Princeton Facebook study — wrong, but not entirely crazy
http://which-50.com/post/75339864941/dangerous-ideas-about-that-princeton-facebook-study
Personal Banking and the Data-Driven Approach
DSC Webinar Series: Data Contributions to a Conversational AI Platform
20 Lessons Enterprise CIOs Can Learn from Supercomputing
http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-11-12/20_lessons_enterprise_big_data_buffs_can_learn_from_supercomputing.html
Big data misused to justify vaccination
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/big-data-misused-to-justify-vaccination
First Single-Molecule LED
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/nanotechnology/first-single-molecule-led
Employment in Renewable Energy Sector Reaches 5.7 Million Globally
http://www.irena.org/News/Description.aspx?NType=A&mnu=cat&PriMenuID=16&CatID=84&News_ID=351
The World Has Deep Areas of Expertise. We Need Agility and Context
http://bigthink.com/big-think-edge/the-world-has-deep-areas-of-expertise-we-need-agility-and-context?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+bigthink/main+%28Big+Think+Main%29
Marc Andreessen Has A Great Answer For Why Bitcoin Matters
http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-on-why-bitcoin-is-worth-money-2014-1
Motorola Patents Electronic Telepathy
New Solar Cells Get the Blues in a Good Way
A window to the future of research
http://www.mpg.de/7865824/Science_Tunnel
Surface map of a brown dwarf
http://www.mpg.de/7870755/surface-map-brown-dwarf
The future of oil supply
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2014/2006.xhtml
The Human enhancement and the future of work project
http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/human-enhancement/workshop-report/
Whole-genome sequence of a flatfish provides insights into ZW sex chromosome evolution and adaptation to a benthic lifestyle
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2890.html
Scientists reading fewer papers for first time in 35 years
http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-reading-fewer-papers-for-first-time-in-35-years-1.14658
Elsevier opens its papers to text-mining
http://www.nature.com/news/elsevier-opens-its-papers-to-text-mining-1.14659
Top UK university pledges reform to ‘change the culture’ of its animal research
Top UK university pledges reform to ‘change the culture’ of its animal research
Challenging Israel
Pruning Synapses Improves Brain Connections
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39055/title/Pruning-Synapses-Improves-Brain-Connections/
Science Cartoonist Doesn’t Draw “Funny Style”
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39033/title/Science-Cartoonist-Doesn-t-Draw–Funny-Style-/
Opinion: The Burden of Proof
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39053/title/Opinion–The-Burden-of-Proof/
The Dilemma of Space Debris
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/the-dilemma-of-space-debris
Flights of Fancy in Avian Evolution
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/flights-of-fancy-in-avian-evolution
How to Fight Back Against Antibiotic Resistance
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/how-to-fight-back-against-antibiotic-resistance
Ocean Acidification: The Other Climate Change Issue
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/ocean-acidification-the-other-climate-change-issue
QUOTATION: “…The flattening of the world is going to be hugely disruptive to both traditional and developed societies. The weak will fall further behind faster. The traditional will feel the force of modernization much more profoundly. The new will get turned into old quicker. The developed will be challenged by the underdeveloped much more profoundly. I worry, because so much political stability is built on economic stability, and economic stability is not going to be a feature of the flat world. Add it all up and you can see that the disruptions and going to come faster and harder. No one is immune ─ not me, not you, not Microsoft. WE ARE ENTERING AN ERA OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION ON STEROIDS. Dealing with flatism is going to be a challenge of a whole new dimension even if your country has a strategy. But if you don’t have a strategy at all, well, again, you’ve warned…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK: The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business by Arie De Geus
ISBN-13: 978–1857881851
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
www.TheProfessionalFuturist.blogspot.com
www.ThisSuccess.wordprocessor.com
www.xeeme.com/AAgostini
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FEBRUARY 03/2014 UPDATES. By Mr.Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
Maps showing which parts of the world would be flooded if all the world’s ice melted
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map
3-D printing takes shape
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/manufacturing/3-d_printing_takes_shape?cid=manufacturing-eml-alt-mkq-mck-oth-1401
40 more maps that explain the world
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/13/40-more-maps-that-explain-the-world/
The Future of Space-Age Management
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
Race Is On to Find Life Under Antarctic Ice
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121218-antarctica-life-microbes-ice-science-environment/
Google sets up artificial intelligence ethics board to curb the rise of the robots
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2548355/Google-sets-artificial-intelligence-ethics-board-curb-rise-robots.html
WORLD HUNGER: A CRISIS NOW AND A CATASTROPHE IN 2050?
http://www.economistinsights.com/sustainability-resources/event/feeding-world-2014?utm_source=Global%20Policy%20&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=EM0167%3A%20Feeding%20the%20World
40 charts that explain the world
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/15/40-charts-that-explain-the-world/
Assignment Remix: Intern-preneurs and Building Bold Thinking
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/01/assignment-remix-entrepreneurial-internship-work/
The 3rd Citizen Cyberscience Summit: Feb 20 — 22, 2014
Waypoint 2 Space Trains Passengers For Commercial Launches
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/01/29/waypoint-2-space-trains-passengers-for-commercial-launches/
Megacity Tips from Europe’s Highest Town as Davos Debates Future
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-26/megacity-tips-from-europe-s-highest-town-as-davos-debates-future.html
Student-built satellite sends data from space
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-student-built-satellite-space.html
How the Dream Chaser was built
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-video-chaser-built.html
How Is Business Intelligence Being Used Differently in Asia?
http://www.idgconnect.com/blog-abstract/5387/how-is-business-intelligence-being-used-differently-asia
Stumbling Blocks That Faceplant Security Analytics Programs
http://www.darkreading.com/stumbling-blocks-that-faceplant-security/240165754
Bio-printing human parts will spark ethical, regulatory debate
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245834/Bio_printing_human_parts_will_spark_ethical_regulatory_debate
Bioprinting human organs and tissue: Get ready for the great 3D printer debate
http://www.zdnet.com/bioprinting-human-organs-and-tissue-get-ready-for-the-great-3d-printer-debate-7000025730/
China Emerges Tanzania’s Major Investor
http://www.ventures-africa.com/2014/01/china-emerges-as-tanzanias-major-investor/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
How We Increased Productivity on the Shop Floor
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/how-we-increased-productivity-on-the-shop-floor/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=smallbusiness&_r=1
Eve Online virtual war ‘costs $300,000′ in damage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25944837?ocid=socialflow_twitter#
Millions experiencing Arctic chill, new snow
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/millions-experiencing-arctic-chill-new-snow/
Google Still Wins by Selling Motorola for Cheap
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/01/google-moto/?cid=co17808934
There’s a giant robot directing traffic in Congo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/01/30/theres-a-giant-robot-directing-traffic-in-congo/
The Link Between Viral Content And Emotional Intelligence
http://www.fastcompany.com/3025474/leadership-now/the-link-between-viral-content-and-emotional-intelligence?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29
Scientists Create Map of Solar System’s Asteroids
http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-map-solar-system-asteroids-01731.html
Hackers, spies, threats and the US spies’ budget
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25933791
Sparking innovation
NASA Instruments on European Comet Spacecraft Begin Countdown
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/inbrief/2014/01/20140128291716.html#ixzz2s912yA9p
Media Relations: Why The Economist Thinks We Have It Wrong
http://socialmediatoday.com/ginidietrich/2120391/media-relations-why-economist-thinks-we-have-it-wrong?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=hootsuite_tweets
How Your Internal Organs Could Power Implanted Devices
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/med-tech/how-your-internal-organs-could-power-implanted-devices-16405636??src=rss
7 Takeaways From Google’s Sale Of Motorola To Lenovo
http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2014/01/30/7-takeways-from-googles-sale-of-motorola-to-lenovo/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Mad for mapping: 6 projects that change the way you see data. What lessons can geography teach your business?
http://www.itworld.com/slideshow/128479/mad-mapping-6-projects-change-way-you-see-data-382783
Trendspotting: 6 mapping trends that are good for business
http://m.itworld.com/big-data/382674/trendspotting-how-mapping-your-data-can-make-business-trends-more-obvious-and-more-p?sf19695409=1&mm_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fautobahn.esri.com%2Fesri%2Fetrack.aspx%3FDSN%3Db9ca57b2fbe8cb42458807853387983f6a0f6be5ccdab113%26FORMID%3Dbd09aee841585a03db5938ed3e6f762d%26AUDID%3Dd0f0fbb0e32b41c94cbec060b7894cfc%26EMAILID%3Db6bf6e6f9ba0ce80e263faf3a935abb77e1eee5986325dae%26DECODE%3D1%26INTID%3Dbfd252c8149e6539f3aebefbb222ec6a%26URL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.itworld.com%2Fbig-data%2F382674%2Ftrendspotting-how-mapping-your-data-can-make-business-trends-more-obvious-and-more-p%3Fsf19695409%3D1
Google’s New A.I. Ethics Board Might Save Humanity From Extinction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/google-ai_n_4683343.html?ir=Technology&utm_campaign=012914&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-technology&utm_content=FullStory
Russian Coders, Ukrainian Cybercriminal, Mexican Smugglers, And The Largest Cybercrime In History
http://www.ibtimes.com/russian-coders-ukrainian-cybercriminal-mexican-smugglers-largest-cybercrime-history-1547854
African banks investigated for cybercrime complicity
http://www.cfoworld.com/technology/80728/african-banks-investigated-cybercrime-complicity#sthash.ykyccS6U.dpuf
Will the Next Industrial Revolution Be Bigger than the First? Will Geospatial Technology be Part of It?
http://geospatial-solutions.com/will-the-next-industrial-revolution-will-be-bigger-than-the-first-will-geospatial-technology-be-part-of-it/
New Patent Mapping System Helps Find Innovation Pathways
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2014/01/14/new-patent-mapping-system-helps-find-innovation-pathways
America’s Most Promising Companies: The Top 25 Of 2014
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2014/01/22/americas-most-promising-companies-the-top-25-of-2014/
Solving the Mobile Device Dilemma: InZero Systems offers 2-Tablets-in-1
http://www.prlog.org/12276372-solving-the-mobile-device-dilemma-inzero-systems-offers-2-tablets-in-1.html
What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech
What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech
Emerging markets: Locus of extremity | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21595485-developing-economies-struggle-cope-new-world-locus-extremity
Climate change research is globally skewed
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2014/01/climate-change-research-is-globally-skewed/
Towards the circular economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains
QUOTATION: “…Our world tomorrow will be utterly different, in ways we cannot even conceive…”
RECOMMENDED BOOK: Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics by Paul Ormerod
ISBN-13: 978–0470089194
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
www.ThisSuccess.wordprocessor.com
www.xeeme.com/AAgostini
Whenever I talk about indefinite life extension, the science and tech behind its development, and the desire for individuals to have the ultimate choice of when and how long they wish to live and die, the radical left almost always resorts to the argument, “Yeah, that sounds great, but then the rich aren’t going to provide it for the 99%. They’ll only keep it for themselves and let us die off.” How is this not equivalent to the conspiracy theory that the 1% are withholding the cure for cancer to the general populace?
It’s a bullshit viewpoint, in my opinion. Yes, the 1% are greedy fucks who care more about profits than anything else, but then, I ask you, how do they expect to earn profits from an extinct species?
While you’re trying to figure out an answer for that, I also find the idea that nothing would result from this kind of oppression to be asinine. Why? Here’s a good example: Black Friday. Every year Black Friday customers gather in the hundreds and thousands in each city, literally rioting, fighting, and killing people, just so they can get their hands on consumer products that’ll be outdated by next year. So if the cure for aging is being withheld from the masses, what the fuck do you think the masses are going to do? Just go home and sob? Ha! There’d be warfare on the streets the next morning.
So do I believe that indefinite life extension will be withheld from the 99% by the 1%? No. Just like I don’t believe that the 1% are withholding the cure for cancer from the 99%.
The article above was originally published as a blog post on The Proactionary Transhumanist.
Meta-materials — materials that have been engineered to have properties that absolutely do not exist in nature — such as negative refraction — are unraveling interesting possibilities in future engineering. The discovery of negative refraction has led to the creation of invisibility cloaks, for example, which seamlessly bend light and other electromagnetic radiation around an object, though such are normally restricted to cumbersome laboratory experiments with split-ring resonators and/or restricted to an insufficient slice of spectrum.
A recent article in ExtremeTech drew attention to the world’s first quantum meta-material, created recently by a team of German material scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It is believed such quantum meta-material can overcome the main problem with traditional meta-materials based on split-ring resonators, which can only be tuned to a small range of frequencies and not conducive to operate across a useful slice of spectrum. While fanciful applications such as quantum birefringence and super-radiant phase transitions are cited it is perhaps invisibility cloaks that until very recently seemed a forte of science fiction.
Breakthroughs at the National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan have also made great strides in building quantum invisibility cloaks, and as the arXiv blog on TechnologyReview recently commented ‘invisibility cloaks are all the rage these days’. With such breakthroughs, these technologies may soon find mass take-up in future consumer products & security, and also have abundant military uses — where it may find the financial stimulus to advance the technology to its true capabilities. Indeed researchers in China have been looking into how to mass-produce invisibility cloaks from materials such as Teflon. We’ll all be invisible soon.
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[1] The first quantum meta-material raises more questions than it answers
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/168060-the-first-quantum-metamaterial-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers
[2] Quantum Invisibility Cloak Hides Objects from Reality
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/516006/quantum-invisibility-cloak-hides-objects-from-reality/
[3] Hide the interior region of core-shell nano-particles with quantum invisible cloaks
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1306.2120
[4] Chinese Researchers Make An Invisibility Cloak For Mass Production
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519166/chinese-researchers-make-an-invisibility-cloak-in-15-minutes/
