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Here’s an interesting thought experiment for you: What happens to life imprisonment — for murder and other heinous crimes — if the human lifespan is increased? If we live until 150 or 250 or 350 (which is very possible, given the direction of recent efforts into life extension) how many more prisons will we have to build to hold all of those murderers and rapists who just won’t die? Even if we can build enough prisons to hold them, will it be economically viable to do so? What about parole? Right now, many life sentences are up for parole after 15 or 20 years — but if we live for 350 years, doesn’t a 15-year incarceration seem a little bit on the lenient side for a serious crime?

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LIST OF UPDATES (MARCH 17 THROUGH MARCH 24/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

Three-part nanoparticles for biomedicine eliminate biocompatibilty, storage problems
http://www.kurzweilai.net/three-part-nanoparticles-for-biomedicine-eliminate-biocompatibilty-storage-problems

Robotic prosthesis turns drummer into a three-armed cyborg
http://www.kurzweilai.net/robotic-prosthesis-turns-drummer-into-a-three-armed-cyborg

NASA tests new robotic refueling technologies
http://www.kurzweilai.net/nasa-tests-new-robotic-refueling-technologies

A small step toward seeing habitable planets
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-small-step-toward-seeing-habitable-planets

Society and Politics – Part 4: The Empowerment of Individuals and Social Groups

Society and Politics – Part 4: The Empowerment of Individuals and Social Groups

CONTROVERSY BREWS OVER ROLE OF ‘KILLER ROBOTS’ IN THEATER OF WAR

Controversy Brews Over Role Of ‘Killer Robots’ In Theater of War

Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525301/virtual-reality-startups-look-back-to-the-future/

New Material May Lead to Faster Oil Spill Cleanups

Headlines: New Material May Lead to Faster Oil Spill Cleanups

Two New Space Announcements Concerning Exoplanets

Headlines: Two New Space Announcements Concerning Exoplanets

Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives
http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2014/03/nanomaterial-may-be-future-hard-drives

Artificial Organs May Finally Get a Blood Supply
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525161/artificial-organs-may-finally-get-a-blood-supply/

Netflix and Google Books Are Blurring the Line Between Past and Present
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/02/history/

12 Reasons 2020 Will Be An AWESOME Year
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43015182/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/reasons-will-be-awesome-year#%2EUx1PjjiPKUk

Blood test predicts Alzheimer’s disease
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/09/health/alzheimers-blood-test/?iref=obinsite

Conductive fibres: From lighter aircraft to electric knickers, flexible filaments raise a wide range of interesting possibilities
http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21598328-conductive-fibres-lighter-aircraft-electric-knickers-flexible-filaments?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/pe/anuncommonthread

Behind the News: Why a High-Protein Diet in Middle Age May Increase Risk of Death
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140308-high-protein-diet-low-protein-cancer-meat-health-food-science/

The Top 5 Cyber Security Threats That Could Affect Your Life
http://blog.devry.edu/2014/02/top-5-cyber-security-threats-that-could-affect-your-life.html

BAE report says Ukraine has faced cyberattacks
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/bae-report-says-ukraine-has-faced-cyberattacks

Are Cloud Data Security Fears Overblown? A Sensible View.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2012/12/12/cloud-security-1/

David Cameron stung by Angela Merkel’s broadband jibe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10688763/David-Cameron-stung-by-Angela-Merkels-broadband-jibe.html

Policy uncertainty drives renewable energy investors overseas

Policy uncertainty drives renewable energy investors overseas

Rolls-Royce to repay £1.8m to Indian government
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/10688684/Rolls-Royce-to-repay-1.8m-to-Indian-goverment.html

Google readies Android push into wearable devices
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/437374f8-a7cc-11e3-9c7d-00144feab7de.html

22 Incredible Images Show What the Future Looked Like 100 Years Ago
http://gizmodo.com/22-incredible-images-show-what-the-future-looked-like-1-1538688261

Darpa’s Tiny Lasers Will Soon Hunt for Biochemical Weapons
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2014/03/darpa-lasers/

The Origin of Intelligence
http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/the-origin-of-intelligence?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bigthink%2Fmain+%28Big+Think+Main%29

Assessing corporate risk in Ukraine
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140310103450-60894986-assessing-corporate-risk-in-ukraine?trk=tod-home-art-list-small_2

Snowden: “We Need A Watchdog That Watches Congress”

Snowden: “We Need A Watchdog That Watches Congress”

Why sensationalizing drone proliferation is going to kill our ability to control them.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/10/drone_invasion_greatly_exaggerated_us_exports

Can big data crunching help feed the world?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26424338

Michael Dell on the Dirty Little Secret About Big Data
http://www.inc.com/tom-foster/why-michael-dell-sees-more-opportunity-as-a-private-company.html

The new battleground for tech companies: Your car
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101479771

MasterCard and Visa to accelerate payment security
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=16494

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Lethal Acid Rain, New Study Suggests
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-acid-rain_n_4933735.html?&ir=Technology&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000046

Yuan Declines In Face Of Weak Chinese Data
http://www.forbes.com/sites/deanpopplewell/2014/03/10/yuan-declines-in-face-of-weak-chinese-data/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Super-resolution atom-by-atom laser machining method allows for making nanoscale devices
http://www.kurzweilai.net/super-resolution-atom-by-atom-laser-machining-method-allows-for-making-nanoscale-devices

Leon Panetta Warns of Cyber Pearl Harbor: and a CTO gives him a polite earful
http://www.ctovision.com/2014/03/leon-panetta-warns-cyber-pearl-harbor-cto-gives-polite-earful/

Leaked NSA document confirms online covert deception involves UFOs
http://www.examiner.com/article/leaked-nsa-document-confirms-online-covert-deception-involves-ufos

A telescope bigger than a galaxy
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-telescope-bigger-than-a-galaxy

Disney Bets $1 Billion on Technology to Track Theme-Park Visitors
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-07/disney-bets-1-billion-on-technology-to-track-theme-park-visitors?utm_content=buffer74b81&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Computers in Your Underwear: Where Wearable Tech Must Go to Succeed
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232094

Hot on the trail of consciousness in brain and machine
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129590.900-hot-on-the-trail-of-consciousness-in-brain-and-machine.html?full=true#%2EUx9HtPldWmQ

Humanoid Robots: The User Interface for the Internet of Things?
http://www.bookofthefuture.co.uk/2014/03/humanoid-robots-the-user-interface-for-the-internet-of-things/?utm_content=bufferda0ad&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

DURACELL HELPS COLD COMMUTERS GET WARM BY HOLDING HANDS
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3027483/duracell-helps-cold-commuters-get-warm-by-holding-hands

Is Entitlement Among Millennials Overblown?
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026733/evidence/is-entitlement-among-millennials-overblown

Your Startup Is More Likely To Get Funding If You’re A Man
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027458/your-startup-is-more-likely-to-get-funding-if-youre-a-man

THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING: 2014
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-internet-of-everything-2014-slide-deck-sai-2014-2

IBM’s Watson Made Me A Kebab

IBM’s Watson Made Me A Kebab

Predicting the future on the Web’s 25th anniversary
http://www.elon.edu/e-net/Article/89854

Awesome tech you can’t buy yet, for the week of March 9, 2014
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/awesome-tech-cant-buy-yet-week/#ixzz2vgrVvaW8

Tiny bladder pressure sensor could provide life-saving information
http://www.gizmag.com/bladder-pressure-sensor-sintef/31153/

Rolls Royce Robot Ships Coming Soon
http://www.electronicproducts.com//Electromechanical_Components/Motors_and_Controllers/Rolls_Royce_Robot_Ships_Coming_Soon.aspx

Stanford bioengineer develops a 50-cent paper microscope

Stanford bioengineer develops a 50-cent paper microscope

SXSW: Edward Snowden Has No Regrets About NSA Leaks
http://time.com/18691/edward-snowden-talks-privacy-and-security-at-sxsw-interactive/

NASA’s Project Morpheus completes Free Flight 8
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7295/NASAs-Project-Morpheus-completes-Free-Flight-8.aspx

Long-term warming likely to be significant despite recent slowdown
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-long-term-significant-slowdown.html

Computer Genius Builds Language That Lets Anyone Calculate Anything
http://www.businessinsider.com/wolfram-language-demo-2014-3

Tiny Drums Turn Faint Radio Signals Into Light
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/tiny-drums-turn-faint-radio-signals-into-light?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29

London launches hi-tech trial for pedestrian safety
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-london-hi-tech-trial-pedestrian-safety.html

CIOs preach the power of resilience
http://fcw.com/articles/2014/03/11/disaster-recovery-practice-practice-practice.aspx?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

“It can happen here”: Three years after Fukushima, U.S. vulnerable to nuclear disaster
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/it-can-happen-here-three-years-after-fukushima-us-vulnerable-to-nuclear-disaster-223443355.html?vp=1

Shocked to learn how data brokers are watching you?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shocked-to-learn-how-data-brokers-are-watching-you/

The White House needs to shut up on Ukraine
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/10/obama_putin_ukraine_russia

The Truth about Drones
http://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/2014/03/11/live-from-sxsw-the-truth-about-drones/

Barack Obama, the world’s most famous social media editor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/11/barack-obama-the-worlds-most-famous-social-media-editor/

Obama Could Use New U.S. Natural Gas, Oil Riches As Tools Against Putin
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkrancer/2014/03/10/experts-obama-could-use-new-u-s-natural-gas-oil-riches-as-tools-against-putin/

Nasa seeks coders to hunt asteroids
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26528516?utm_content=buffer50801&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

3,000 Americans ditch their passports
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/17/pf/taxes/citizenship-taxes/index.html

The Industrial Revolution produced machines that required human input. But is the digital revolution rendering labor obsolete?
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/qa-andrew-mcafee-erik-brynjolfsson-co-authors-of-the-second-machine-age/?tag=nl.e660&s_cid=e660&ttag=e660&ftag=TRE4eb29b5

The next tech revolution: Busting bureaucracy
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/10/bureaucracy-revolution-tech/

No, U.S. Drones Weren’t Shot Down Over Crimea

No, U.S. Drones Weren’t Shot Down Over Crimea

China on Course to Exceed 2015 Shale Gas Target With Fuling Find
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-11/china-on-course-to-exceed-2015-shale-gas-target-with-fuling-find.html

Ray Kurzweil Keynotes Conference on Transforming Big Data into Fast Data and Smart Data
http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2013/09/23/NY84309

Kurzweil: Computers Will Enable People To Live Forever
http://www.informationweek.com/kurzweil-computers-will-enable-people-to-live-forever/d/d-id/1049093?

The military’s new Google Glass streams TONS of futuristic battle data
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/11/the-militarys-new-google-glass-streams-tons-of-futuristic-battle-data/

Stem Cell Researcher Calls for Retraction of His Own Work
http://time.com/20082/stem-cell-researcher-calls-for-retraction-of-his-own-work/

5 predictions for the Web that were WAY off
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/11/technology/web-predictions/index.html

Work at China IBM Factory Resumes as Many Strikers Return
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304704504579432983318960394?mod=rss_Technology&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304704504579432983318960394.html%3Fmod%3Drss_Technology

FDA Approves Migraine Treatment Device
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304020104579433921861863030?mod=rss_Technology&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304020104579433921861863030.html%3Fmod%3Drss_Technology

An Achievement: Israeli Intelligence & Navy Intercepted Missiles on Ship — But It’s Bad that Iran Closely Stands with Hamas in Gaza
http://israelspy.com/great-achievement-israeli-intelligence-and-navy-intercepted-missiles-bound-for-sinai-or-gaza-but-is-it-bad-that-iran-closely-stands-with-hamas-in-gaza/

Ukraine in Crisis: Putin and the Power of Gas
http://socialinarlington.com/ukraine-in-crisis-putin-and-the-power-of-gas/

Will millennials kill Costco?
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/11/will-millennials-kill-costco/?iid=SF_F_River&utm_content=buffer314ed&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

European IT firms seize opportunity from spy scandal

European IT firms seize opportunity from spy scandal

Exxon’s Russia ties still strong amid crisis
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/exxon-russia-oil-104556.html

Inspiration Is Divine, But Totally Insufficient
http://www.inc.com/ilan-mochari/business-inspiration-entrepreneurs.html?cid=sf01001

Did CIA search senate committee’s computers?
http://www.msnbc.com/ronan-farrow/watch/did-cia-search-senate-committees-computers-191703107569?cid=sm_twitter_video

Rice bioengineers invent systems for ‘genetic circuit analysis’
http://www.kurzweilai.net/rice-bioengineers-invent-systems-for-genetic-circuit-analysis

New research could help make ‘roll-up’ digital screens a reality
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-research-could-help-make-roll-up-digital-screens-a-reality

Watch scientists ‘herd’ cells with electric fields for controlled tissue engineering
http://www.kurzweilai.net/watch-scientists-herd-cells-with-electric-fields-for-controlled-tissue-engineering

Digital Health And The Transition To Nothing
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnnosta/2014/03/11/digital-health-and-the-transition-to-nothing/

Tech brands steer consumers towards in-car technology

Tech brands steer consumers towards in-car technology

Ozone Layer Under Threat Yet Again

Headlines: Ozone Layer Under Threat Yet Again

What the Internet of 2025 Might Look Like
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/11/what-the-internet-of-2025-might-look-like/

My great bitcoin adventure: 6 months, 5 exchanges
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/my-great-bitcoin-adventure-6-months-5-exchanges-237859

A Global Education Conference for a Global Crisis
http://bigthink.com/think-tank/gesf-a-global-education-conference-for-a-global

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Two Main Philosophies
http://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/neil-degrasse-tysons-two-main-philosophies?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bigthink%2Fmain+%28Big+Think+Main%29

17 areas to benefit from big data analytics in next 10 years
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/17-areas-to-benefit-from-big-data-analytics-in-next-10-years

The 17 Equations That Changed The Course Of History
http://www.businessinsider.com/17-equations-that-changed-the-world-2014-3

THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY: BIG DATA IS GREAT, BUT WE CAN’T FIND ENOUGH TALENT
http://www.fastcompany.com/3022909/fast-feed/the-healthcare-industry-big-data-is-great-but-we-cant-find-enough-talent

Hate to be a Nag About Climate Change But Here Goes

Hate to be a Nag About Climate Change But Here Goes

The Dozen Regional Powerhouses Driving the U.S. Economy
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2014/03/dozen-regional-powerhouses-driving-us-economy/8575/

Protein key to cell motility has implications for stopping cancer metastasis
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-protein-key-cell-motility-implications.html

Iran and Russia discuss new nuclear deal
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/03/iran-russia-discuss-new-nuclear-deal-2014312175752273103.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Quantum chaos in ultracold gas discovered
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-quantum-chaos-ultracold-gas.html

Data Centers and the Internet of Things to Come

Data Centers and the Internet of Things to Come

Google is encrypting search globally. That’s bad for the NSA and China’s censors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/12/google-is-encrypting-search-worldwide-thats-bad-for-the-nsa-and-china/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

NATO Poised to Ramp Up Nuclear-Arms Security Spending
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/analyst-us-poised-ramp-spending-guard-nuclear-arms-europe/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

New contender for ‘fat gene’ found
http://www.nature.com/news/new-contender-for-fat-gene-found-1.14863

Inside China’s Market for Mobile Cybercrime
http://www.securityweek.com/inside-chinas-market-mobile-cybercrime

US House seeks alternatives to Internet sales tax bill
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2107520/us-house-considers-alternatives-to-internet-sales-tax-bill.html

4 Billionaires on How to Profit From Failure
http://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/4-billionaires-on-how-to-profit-from-failure.html?cid=sf01001

Google’s Schmidt: We were attacked by the Chinese and the NSA
http://rt.com/usa/google-schmidt-speech-sxsw-546/

Snowden leak: NSA plans to infect ‘millions’ of computers
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-greenwald-malware-infect-382/

Public investors get no say in new Google
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/krantz/2014/03/11/google-stock-split-affect-investors/5789895/

Why Nothing Is Truly Alive

How NASA Sold Us The Moon
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2014/03/12/how-nasa-sold-us-the-moon/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years
http://qz.com/185945/drones-are-about-to-upheave-society-in-a-way-we-havent-seen-in-700-years/?utm_content=buffer2a3b1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=

Climate change is already affecting the American people

Hate to be a Nag About Climate Change But Here Goes

Test may some day predict 5-year risk of death

Test may some day predict 5-year risk of death

Bacteria & Batteries: Five Hot Energy Tech Trends
http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/1247-bacteria-batteries-five-hot-energy-tech-trends

Cancer Research Breakthrough Using Bacteria
http://www.inquisitr.com/1168390/cancer-research-breakthrough-using-bacteria/

Australia Takes Lead in Cleaning Up Space Junk

Space Update: Australia Takes Lead in Cleaning Up Space Junk

Physicist proposes a new type of computing at SXSW. Check out orbital computing
http://gigaom.com/2014/03/10/physicist-proposes-a-new-type-of-computing-at-sxsw-check-out-orbital-computing/?utm_content=buffer6f5b7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

NSA’s plan to inject malware into ‘millions’ of computers revealed
http://bgr.com/2014/03/12/nsa-hacking-malware-infections/

EU moves toward sanctions on Russians; Obama meets Ukraine PM
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/13/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA1Q1E820140313?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=992637

International Astronomical Union Labelled ‘Boring’ As It Warns Space Is Not For Sale
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasperhamill/2014/03/12/international-astronomical-union-labelled-boring-as-it-warns-space-is-not-for-sale/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Why Is Google Building A Robot Army?

Why Is Google Building A Robot Army?

Beyond BRAC: Global Defense Infrastructure for the 21st Century
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/05/beyond-brac-global-defense-infrastructure-for-the-21st-century

NSA Director nominee wants every branch of the military to have a dedicated cyber attack force
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/12/presidential-nominee-for-nsa-director-wants-every-branch-of-the/

Ukraine crisis makes people in the Baltic states very very nervous.…
http://on.ft.com/1kME07U

PUTIN MOVES AGAINST THE PRESS
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/03/vladimir-putin-press-censorship-galina-timchenko.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Feinstein excoriates CIA for spying on Senate committee
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57620193-83/feinstein-excoriates-cia-for-spying-on-senate-committee/

Target hackers showed intimate knowledge of firm’s network, suggests McAfee
http://news.techworld.com/security/3505877/target-hackers-showed-intimate-knowledge-of-firms-network-suggests-mcafee/

Disneyland for Law Enforcement
http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=node/12488

Web founder Berners-Lee calls for online ‘Magna Carta’ to protect users
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/us-internet-bernerslee-idUSBREA2B0PC20140312

NSA ‘hijacked’ criminal botnets to install spyware
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/us-usa-security-nsa-botnets-idUSBREA2B21420140312

Smart nanofibers to treat kidney failure
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140306132809.htm

Silk-based surgical implants could offer a better way to repair broken bones
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140304141946.htm

Squeezing light into metals: Engineers control conductivity with inkjet printer
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140307083701.htm

Taking a Look at Emerging Technologies
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/blogs/2014/03/taking-look-emerging-technologies

Business Insider | The Silicon Valley 100: The coolest people in tech right now
http://www.kurzweilai.net/business-insider-the-silicon-valley-100-the-coolest-people-in-tech-right-now

Here’s What The Internet Could Look Like In 2025
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/11/heres-what-the-internet-c_n_4943051.html?ir=Technology

New research could help make ‘roll-up’ digital screens a reality
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-research-could-help-make-roll-up-digital-screens-a-reality

Canadian makers of ‘world’s lowest cost tablet’ aim for $20 device
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/canadian-makers-of-worlds-lowest-cost-tablet-aim-for-20-device/article17461367/

What’s Driving the Hospital of the Future?
http://www.aethon.com/whats-driving-hospital-future/

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein

Brilliant Blunders: Mario Livio’s Book is Well Worth a Read

Police departments begin testing and training with Google Glass
http://www.envisagenow.com/police-departments-begin-testing-and-training-with-google-glass/

7 Real Cybersecurity Threats
http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2014/03/13/real-cybersecurity-threats/

The political science of cybersecurity IV: How Edward Snowden helps U.S. deterrence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/03/12/the-political-science-of-cybersecurity-iv-how-edward-snowden-helps-u-s-deterrence/

Cybersecurity Spending Up At DoD And DHS In FY15 Budget Requests

Cybersecurity Spending Up At DoD And DHS In FY15 Budget Requests

Military: 80 Percent of Colombian Drugs Gets to U.S.
http://time.com/world/

The Most Secure Buildings in the World
https://exploreb2b.com/articles/the-most-secure-buildings-in-the-world

NIST launches effort to improve disaster resilience of communities
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140313-nist-launches-effort-to-improve-disaster-resilience-of-communities

The Russia-Ukraine Cyber War
http://i-hls.com/2014/03/russia-ukraine-cyber-war/

The Coming Human-Machine Forecasting Revolution in Foreign Policy?
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Articles/Detail/?lng=en&id=177471

AMERICAN EXPRESS SPOTLIGHTS THE ISSUE OF FINANCIAL EXCLUSION IN DAVIS GUGGENHEIM DOC “SPENT“
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3027508/american-express-spotlights-the-issue-of-financial-exclusion-in-davis-guggenheim-doc-spent

Russia announces start of military exercises near Ukrainian border
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/13/russia-political-economic-damage-ukraine-merkel

Merkel: Russia to face massive damage if no progress made on Ukraine
http://rt.com/news/germany-russia-massive-sanctions-590/

A step towards ‘programmable materials’ “Could change the world of mechanics forever“
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-step-towards-programmable-materials

A new quantum-cryptography scheme to secure anonymous transactions
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-new-quantum-cryptography-scheme-to-secure-anonymous-transactions

3D acoustic cloaking device makes objects undetectable with sound
http://www.kurzweilai.net/3d-acoustic-cloaking-device-makes-objects-undetectable-with-sound

Soon You’ll Be Able to Order Anything, Exactly How You Want It

Soon You’ll Be Able to Order Anything, Exactly How You Want It

Three Ideas Wearable Designers Should Steal From This Smart Medical Device
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/3-insights-wearable-design-smart-concept-epileptics/

Rolls-Royce Considers Building a … Plug-in Hybrid?
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/rolls-royce-plug-in-hybrid/

Ukraine crisis will make Iran’s mullahs more interested in nuclear weapons
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2545346

Bill Nye Sees An Intimate Connection Between Startups And Science

Bill Nye Sees An Intimate Connection Between Startups And Science

Tech professor believes to have discovered origin of life
http://www.dailytoreador.com/news/article_a68e7dae-a7df-11e3-848b-001a4bcf6878.html

STANFORD RESEARCHERS CREATE A NEW TECHNIQUE TO STUDY HOW WE INHERIT DISEASE
http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-researchers-create-new-technique-study-how-we-inherit-disease

Behind the News: Why a High-Protein Diet in Middle Age May Increase Risk of Death
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140308-high-protein-diet-low-protein-cancer-meat-health-food-science/

The White House Is Looking For More Innovation Fellows

The White House Is Looking For More Innovation Fellows

Promising news for producing fuels through artificial photosynthesis
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140307133631.htm

World Wide Web 25th Anniversary Marks Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Life-Changing Invention
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/09/internets-25th-anniversary-sir-tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-proposition_n_4930150.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Coming Breakthroughs That Will Change Life As We Know It
http://www.businessinsider.com/michio-kaku-talks-about-coming-breakthroughs-2014-3

Russia Turns The Screws On Ukraine With Gas Supply Threat
http://time.com/16915/russia-turns-the-screws-on-ukraine-with-gas-supply-threat/

It’s Not Just Big Data, It’s The Right Big Data That Matters Most
https://exploreb2b.com/articles/its-not-just-big-data-its-the-right-big-data-that-matters-most

Three Reasons Why The UK Can Never Join The Euro
http://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2014/03/07/three-reasons-why-the-uk-can-never-join-the-euro/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

James Lovelock: ‘enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan’
http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/mar/01/scienceofclimatechange.climatechange

The app controlled smart security drone with a STUN GUN built in to zap intruders with an 80,000 volt dart
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2576091/The-smart-security-drone-STUN-GUN-built-attack-intruders.html

Your Body Can Kill Cancer. It Just Needs Better Instructions.

Your Body Can Kill Cancer. It Just Needs Better Instructions.

Mathematical Patterns in Sea Ice Reveal Melt Dynamics
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/03/13/mathematical-patterns-in-sea-ice-reveal-melt-dynamics/

Nanoscale optical switch breaks miniaturization barrier
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-nanoscale-optical-miniaturization-barrier.html

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Professional Futurist and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

LIST OF UPDATES (MARCH 10 THROUGH MARCH 16/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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New US Military Space Plane Aims for 2017 Liftoff
http://www.space.com/24639-united-states-military-space-plane-xs1.html

9 hot Indian innovators that Silicon Valley could buy next
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/140305/9-hot-indian-innovators-silicon-valley-could-buy-nex

NASA’s CT-2 Preps for Larger Deep Space Launches
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7178/NASAs-CT-2-Preps-for-Larger-Deep-Space-Launches.aspx

In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones
http://www.21stcentech.com/future-robots-outnumber-big/

Surveillance by Algorithm

Surveillance by Algorithm

Bitcoin Is a Protocol. Bitcoin Is a Brand.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/bitcoin-is-a-protocol-bitcoin-is-a-brand/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

‘Carbon bubble’ poses serious threat to UK economy, MPs warn
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/06/carbon-bubble-threat-uk-economy-fossil-fuels-mps?CMP=twt_fd

Time running out for Great Barrier Reef: scientists
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-great-barrier-reef-scientists.html

5 Things to Lessen Your Anxiety About Big Data
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/big-data/5-things-to-lessen-your-anxiety-about-big-data-024382.php

Breakthrough: How to Avert Analytics’ Most Treacherous Pitfall
http://smartdatacollective.com/node/189476?utm_source=feedburner_twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=autotweets

A Genetic Entrepreneur Sets His Sights on Aging and Death

A Clever Robotic Arm on Kickstarter, Straight From Chinese Factory Whizzes
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/kickstarter-robot-arm-ufactory/

The Uncertain Future of the Global Cloud
https://exploreb2b.com/articles/the-uncertain-future-of-the-global-cloud

Wyoming Governor Takes Major Stand Against Modern Science
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/wyoming-next-generation-science_n_4922333.html?&ir=Politics&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016

Assange at SXSW: ‘Who really wears the pants in the administration?‘
http://www.techhive.com/article/2105863/assange-at-sxsw-who-really-wears-the-pants-in-the-administration.html

Japan’s Strategic Approach to Democracy Support
http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/03/07/japan-s-strategic-approach-to-democracy-support/h2q1

NASA’s WISE Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No ‘Planet X’
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-075

Independent Scotland would lose UK’s AAA rating, warns Citigroup
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10684468/Independent-Scotland-would-lose-UKs-AAA-rating-warns-Citigroup.html

Ukraine crisis: why Russia sees Crimea as its naval stronghold
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/07/ukraine-russia-crimea-naval-base-tatars-explainer

China Has Launched the Largest Water-Pipeline Project in History
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/china-has-launched-the-largest-water-pipeline-project-in-history/284300/

Nanomotors controlled within living cells
http://www.gizmag.com/nanomotors-controlled-inside-cells/30795/

How wearables will change the enterprise landscape
http://www.coppermobile.com/blog/all-post/wear-job-wrist-wearables-will-change-enterprise-landscape/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=4211381

Lockheed Martin, University of Maryland to develop next generation quantum computer
http://phys.org/wire-news/155552054/lockheed-martin-university-of-maryland-to-develop-next-generatio.html

Infrastructure Threatened by Climate Change Poses a National Crisis
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infrastructure-threatened-by-climate-change-poses-a-national-crisis/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

SORRY BANKS, MILLENNIALS HATE YOU
http://www.fastcompany.com/3027197/fast-feed/sorry-banks-millennials-hate-you

Russia turns to drones and robots as army shrinks
http://blogs.blouinnews.com/blouinbeatpolitics/2013/12/15/russia-turns-to-drones-and-robots-as-army-shrinks/

The U.S. Does Not Have As Much Leverage Over Russia’s Energy As You Think
http://americansecurityproject.org/blog/2014/the-u-s-does-not-have-as-much-leverage-over-russias-energy-as-you-think/

DARPA SHIELD targets counterfeit parts
http://www.c4isrnet.com/article/M5/20140306/C4ISRNET07/303060022?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Why It’s Hard to Impose Sanctions on Russia
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304554004579421533293368344?mod=e2tw

2030 Space Odyssey: NASA will search for alien life in Jupiter’s moon
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/2030-space-odyssey-nasa-will-search-for-alien-life-in-1536952180/@barrett

7 hidden dangers of wearable computers
http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/142881/7-hidden-dangers-of-wearable-computers-237591#slide1

The dark side of 3D printing: 10 things to watch
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-dark-side-of-3d-printing-10-things-to-watch/

PIZZA HUT’S INTERACTIVE TOUCH TABLE COULD BE COMING TO A RESTAURANT NEAR YOU
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3027282/pizza-huts-interactive-touch-table-could-be-coming-to-a-restaurant-near-you

Mobile devices of the future will get energy from everywhere except the wall socket
http://qz.com/180484/mobile-devices-of-the-future-will-get-energy-from-everywhere-except-the-wall-socket/?utm_content=buffer8195e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Marc Andreessen Thinks the News Business Is About to Grow 1,000 Percent
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/big-boom-news-change-read/

Robotic Technology to Preserve Wildlife: A Scenario
http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/march-april-2014-vol-48-no-2/robotic-technology-preserve-wildlife-scen

Learning without Schools: A Contrarian Future
http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2014-issues-futurist/march-april-2014-vol-48-no-2/learning-without-schools-contrarian-futur

New Record Set for Data-Transfer Speeds
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/02/new-record-set-data-transfer-speeds

Glimmer of Light Appears in Search for Dark Matter
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/02/glimmer-light-appears-search-dark-matter?et_cid=3793244&et_rid=602069455&type=cta

This is what 3D printed wood looks like
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/25/this-is-what-3d-printed-wood-looks-like/

Rise of the human exoskeletons
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26418358#%3Futm_source%3Dtwitterfeed%26utm_medium%3Dtwitte

How Data from Wearable Tech is Transforming Personal Training and Sport Performance
http://iq.intel.com/iq/41823249/how-data-from-wearable-tech-is-transforming-personal-training-and-sport-performance?linkId=7599081

Click Your Tongue Or Wink To Control This Tiny Computer Earclip
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3027183/click-your-tongue-or-wink-to-control-this-tiny-computer-earclip

Three Metrics that will Move the World
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140304184631-53060352-three-metrics-that-will-move-the-world

Microgrids will soon make large electrical grids obsolete
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/03/04/microgrids-will-soon-make-large-electrical-grids-obsolete/

Futuristic Moon Elevator Idea Takes Aim at Lunar Lifts
http://www.space.com/24905-moon-elevator-lunar-exploration-liftport.html

Technological Growth and Unemployment: A Global Scenario Analysis
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://jetpress.org/v24/campa2.htm

Will SpaceX Super Rocket Kill NASA’s ‘Rocket to Nowhere’? (Op-Ed)
http://www.space.com/24628-will-spacex-kill-nasa-sls.html

Cameras That Can See Through Walls!

The Future of Venture Capital, Tech Valuations and the Fate of Tech Incumbents — Conversation with Bill Janeway
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mgiresearch/2014/03/04/the-future-of-venture-capital-tech-valuations-and-the-fate-of-tech-incumbents-conversation-with-bill-janeway/

When Regulation Threatens, Bankers Predict Doom For Main Street
http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/when-regulation-threatens-bankers-predict-doom-for-main-street?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1394047793

Human Longevity Inc. launched to promote healthy aging using advances in genomics and stem-cell therapies
http://www.kurzweilai.net/human-longevity-inc-hli-launched-to-promote-healthy-aging-using-advances-in-genomics-and-stem-cell-therapies

Supplement added to a standard diet improves health and prolongs life in mice
http://www.kurzweilai.net/supplement-added-to-a-standard-diet-improves-health-and-prolongs-life-in-mice

Robotic-assisted prostate surgery offers better cancer control, study finds
http://www.kurzweilai.net/robotic-assisted-prostate-surgery-offers-better-cancer-control-study-finds

Study pinpoints protective mutations for type 2 diabetes
http://www.kurzweilai.net/study-pinpoints-protective-mutations-for-type-2-diabetes

How to generate new neurons in brains, spinal cords of living adult mammals
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-generate-new-neurons-in-brains-spinal-cords-of-living-adult-mammals

Two-dimensional ‘electron gas’ creates radical microelectronics devices
http://www.kurzweilai.net/two-dimensional-electron-gas-creates-radical-microelectronics-devices

How memory and thought alter the meaning of odors
http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-memory-and-thought-alter-the-meaning-of-odors

Evidence of former life on Mars?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/evidence-of-former-life-on-mars

Will 3D Printing Upend Fashion Like Napster Crippled the Music Industry?
http://mashable.com/2014/03/03/3d-printing-fashion/

Ukraine: A Mistake Moscow Will Regret
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2014/03/04/ukraine-a-mistake-moscow-will-regret/

Will Google Maps Ever Come to Apple CarPlay
http://mashable.com/2014/03/04/google-maps-carplay/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner

The Case for Blunders
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/06/darwin-einstein-case-for-blunders/?pagination=false

Silicon Valley real estate mogul turns to curing cancer through big data
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies/innovation/2014/03/01/real-estate-titan-turns-to-curing-cancer.html?cid=tw_inn_mar14

3 Technologies that Will Rock Your World
http://networkingexchangeblog.att.com/enterprise-business/3-technologies-will-rock-world/?__sc_=2jsl3

Ballmer: Microsoft Missed the Mobile Market Over Last Decade
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/04/ballmer-microsoft-missed-the-mobile-market-over-last-decade/

Worth $1 Billion, Iceland’s Cryptocurrency Is the Third-Largest in the World
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/worth-1-billion-icelands-cryptocurrency-is-the-third-largest-in-the-world

When Start-Ups Don’t Lock the Doors

InPowered Opens Platform to Push Popular Content to Native Ads
http://mashable.com/2014/03/04/inpowered-opens-platform/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

‘Government as a Platform’: How Cloud Computing Is Progressing Inside The Beltway
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2014/02/23/government-as-a-platform-how-cloud-computing-is-progressing-inside-the-beltway/

Most Stars in the Universe Host an Alien Planet
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/03/04/most-stars-in-the-universe-host-an-alien-planet/#.UxYcUeddWDo

China Working on New Intermediate-Range Missile
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/report-china-working-new-intermediate-range-missile/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Warheads and Wealth: Five Keys to Russia’s Power
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/the-five-ways-russia-s-military-could-crush-ukraine-1RU89yymTjK6aZS6dmxabw.html

Banking, Information, and Technology: Toward Knowledge Banking
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525106/banking-information-and-technology-toward-knowledge-banking/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=twitter

Ukrainian authorities suffer new cyber attacks
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/us-ukraine-cricis-cyberattack-idUSBREA270FU20140308

Cyber weapon known as Snake attacking Ukraine’s computer network
http://www.news.com.au/world/cyber-weapon-known-as-snake-attacking-ukraines-computer-network/story-fndir2ev-1226849285455

Border Patrol tells agents to retreat from rock throwers, not shoot
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/249087891.html?authenticate=y

Federal agencies embrace new technology and strategies to find the enemy within
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/federal-agencies-embrace-new-technology-and-strategies-to-find-the-enemy-within/2014/03/07/22ce335e-9d87-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html

Naval Espionage
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/march/naval-espionage-stopping-a-dangerous-insider-threat/naval-espionage-stopping-a-dangerous-insider-threat

Resolving For Cybersecurity Threats To The Cloud
http://www.hstoday.us/briefings/correspondents-watch/single-article/resolving-for-cybersecurity-threats-to-the-cloud/dfa005e57915ab9e025c37dd87ec8ce6.html

Cybersecurity Priorities Unveiled in FY 2015 Budget
http://www.govinfosecurity.com/cybersecurity-priorities-unveiled-in-fy-2015-budget-a-6600

NIST report on iris aging flawed: researchers
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140307-nist-report-on-iris-aging-flawed-researchers

Why Study? College Hackers Are Changing F’s To A’s
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/05/student-hacking_n_4907344.html?utm_hp_ref=technology

Suspected Russian spyware Turla targets Europe, United States
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/us-russia-cyberespionage-insight-idUSBREA260YI20140307

Safeguarding networks when disasters strike
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140306-safeguarding-networks-when-disasters-strike

HOW BUSY PEOPLE MAKE TIME TO READ—AND YOU CAN TOO
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026923/how-busy-people-make-time-to-read-and-you-can-too

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Professional Futurist and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

By Avi Roy, University of Buckingham and Anders Sandberg, University of Oxford

Today we wish a very happy 116th birthday to Misao Okawa who was born in Japan in 1898, making her the world’s oldest person. When she was young, Einstein hadn’t yet grasped the mysteries of a relative universe, cars were becoming affordable and were thought as the saviour of horse-polluted cities and the telephone was the next big thing in communication.

More than a hundred years later, we oft cite Einstein’s famous equation of relativity without understanding it. Cars are tools of pollution and most cities tax their presence. And a great many people shun voice communications for instantaneous texts. A lot has changed in our understanding of the universe, technology and our morality over the past century. But when it comes to living longer lives, we seem to collectively forget some basic biology.

Mind the generation gap.
Itsuo Inouye/AP

The media obsesses over the inevitable “secret” that centenarians (and super-centenarians, like Okawa, who live past 110) reveal as the reason for their exceptionally long life. In the case of Okawa, lots of sushi and eight hours sleep a day. Scientists study centenarians and their families to isolate the causes for longevity – so that we may be able to distribute it to everyone.

But centenarians are not the key to unlocking the mysteries of health and longevity – on the contrary, they epitomise our fears of growing old.

Centenarians and Tithonus’ curse

In Greek mythology, mortality was the distinguishing feature between gods and men; gods were immortal while men suffered from death (that, and the whims of the gods above them). In the story, Eos, the goddess of the dawn falls in love with a mortal man called Tithonus. Eos cannot bear the thought that Tithonus will die, so she asks Zeus to make him immortal, to which he agrees. The only problem is that she forgot to ask for eternal youth. Tithonus cannot die, but he progressively suffers from all the ill health and frailties of old age.

Centenarians are the living embodiment of Tithonus’ curse. Contrary to what the media would like to portray (and some studies), many centenarians suffer ill health and frailty associated with old age, which can also affect research. Most are wheelchair or bed-bound, many suffer from dementia, muscle loss, hearing loss, eyesight loss and lack control of their orifices.

When given the choice between healthy life and long life with ill health, most people choose the former. Centenarians are not a mystery of nature; they are old people who happen to suffer the damages of ageing a bit longer than others.

Mortality law and the lifestyle delusion

Like the rest of us, centenarians are governed by the “law of mortality”, which simply states that no matter who you are or where you live the chances of you dying double every eight years.

This doubling of our mortality rate starts from the moment we are conceived until our inevitable demise. And with each eight-year period we accumulate more damage generated by the process of sustaining our life (our metabolism). Initially, during youth, the damage is limited and doesn’t affect our health and well-being but as we get older the damage starts to accumulate and our probability of dying from any given disease of ageing increases exponentially.

We certainly know how to decrease our mortality rate by using vaccines and antibiotics and by not smoking. But unfortunately the converse is not true, we know of nothing that can reduce our rate of mortality. Lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise do not significantly reduce the mortality rate of a normal person.

Another way to think about this is to imagine we are all born with a certain number of chips that we can spend during life, and when the chips run out, we die. So in this thought experiment, I’m born with 2,048 chips while Anders is born with 8,192 chips.

Applying the law of mortality, we remove double the chips every eight years, so two chips go on my eighth birthday, four on my 16th, eight on my 24th and so on.

Life chipping away.
John-Morgan, CC BY-NC-SA

I’ll die when I run out of chips on my 88th birthday, while Anders will be around until his 104th birthday. Although Anders is born with many more chips than me, in the later years of his life he uses ever more chips to remain alive. These chips are analogous to genetic inheritance. Centenarians are born with better genes which help them maintain their frail state a little bit longer compared to the average Briton who lives to about 80.

By the time someone has reached 90 or 100 years of age, they will have accumulated a lot of damage as a by-product of their metabolism. Their biological systems teeter at the edge of systemic collapse and each additional year brings with it the probability that something will tip it over the edge. This may help explain the fact that although the total numbers of centenarians are increasing, the numbers of super-centenarians like Okawa have remained constant.

Male mortality in England and Wales over the last 160 years.
Avi Roy, CC BY-SA

Regenerative powers

If we are to grow old and remain in good health, we have three options. We can try to improve our metabolism such that it generates less harmful byproducts or we can find a way to clean these up these byproducts. Or, we can deal with the consequences of this accumulation of damage over time. Medicine has mainly focused on the third option, dealing with the consequences of ageing disease such as dementia, cancer and diabetes. But though we may have added few years to our lives, we certainly haven’t added life to our years.

We have tried to understand how to improve our metabolism by studying longevity genes in worms – in one experiment, increasing the life of nematode worms five times – rodents, and centenarians. But these studies rarely generate consistent results and we still do not know how to implement the finding in humans. Improving our metabolism to mimic those of long-lived mammals such as bowhead whales (thought to be the oldest living mammal) is certainly an interesting avenue of research, but won’t be clinically useful for a very long time.

The field of regenerative medicine is trying to hedge our bets. Instead of waiting until we can overhaul our metabolism, it aims to clean up the damage we accumulate in our cells, tissues, and organs. There are several current projects to grow organs from one’s own stem cells or even skin cells. There are patients around the world with trachea and cartilage replacements made using this technique. Soon, regenerative medicine will target therapies beyond organs and at the cellular level. If our cells are always in tip-top shape we may not need to replace our organs.

But as it currently stands, the best chance for you to reach 100 years of age, with all the baggage of that it comes with, is to have parents and grandparents who are centenarians. Sushi, sleep, a whisky a day is unlikely to make the difference besides improving life quality. But for our money, regenerative medicine will be what finally cures the old of the Tithonus curse, where we might live to ripe old ages but in much better health.

I have no conflicting interests related to this topic (besides being subject to ageing).

Avi Roy does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.

This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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10 Top Trends in Social Media
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Did Sherlock Holmes Believe in God?
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Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains

Report Calls for Better Backstops to Protect Power Grid From Cyberattacks

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Gates reclaims Forbes title of world’s richest billionaire
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Here’s Why Scientists Are Shooting Rockets at an Aurora
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Richard Branson on Why Leading Means Listening
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Ukraine crisis: Grip tightens
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Web-Enabled Toothbrushes Join the Internet of Things
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WhatsApp Founders Make Last-Minute Addition to Forbes’ Billionaires List
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Ukraine Crisis May Thwart Obama Plans From Iran to China
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No, American Weakness Didn’t Encourage Putin to Invade Ukrain
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Confirmed: Facebook’s $19-billion WhatsApp deal is Jaw-Dropping
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Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-quantum-physics-single-use-memories.html

When Will Elon Musk Start Making Solar Panels?
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In Search of a Stable Electronic Currency

Ion Proton™ Sequencer designed to sequence human genome fo
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Art vs. Engineering? Art + Engineering?
http://www.engineering.com/Education/EducationArticles/ArticleID/7243/Art-vs-Engineering-Art-Engineering.aspx

Is “Designed” in China the Next Big Thing?
http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/7236/Is-Designed-in-China-the-Next-Big-Thing.aspx

Rolls Royce and the Autonomous High Seas
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7238/Rolls-Royce-and-the-Autonomous-High-Seas.aspx

Undergrads Aim to Lower Bio Printing Costs
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7227/Undergrads-Aim-to-Lower-Bio-Printing-Costs.aspx

Tiny, Cheap, Foolproof: Seeking New Component to Counter Counterfeit Electronics
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/24.aspx

DARPA Seeking Automated Decision Aids for Pilots and Battle Managers in Contested Environments
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/21.aspx

Big Mechanism Seeks the “Whys” Hidden in Big Data
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/20.aspx

ARES Aims to Provide More Front-line Units with Mission-tailored VTOL Capabilities
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/11.aspx

Molten Salts Might Provide Half-Price Grid Energy Storage
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525121/molten-salts-might-provide-half-price-grid-energy-storage/

Stem cells repair and strenthen muscles in aged mice
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/03/01/stem-cells-repair-and-strenthen-muscles-in-aged-mice/

Enhancing the human race: augmented reality
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/health/scientific-breakthroughs/10523379/augmented-reality-medicine.html

What if part of your innovation journey was to go back to the future?
What if part of your innovation journey was to go back to the future?

It slices, it dices, and it protects the body from harm: 3-D structure of enzyme that helps defend against bacteria
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140228210604.htm

Robots in 2020 / Vision of Future — Humans Life Jointly Humanoid

The End of Education As We Know It
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/articles/radical-openness/the-end-of-education-as-we-know-it.html

The Case for Connectivity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-ross/the-case-for-connectivity_b_4839486.html

SNOPA: A Privacy Win-Win for Social Media Age
http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/right-to-digital-privacy-will-be-protected-by-the-social#axzz2uv9naa6B

Pill could help humans live longer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10666532/Pill-could-help-humans-live-longer.html

Ten Things I Remember About the Future
http://markrvickers.com/2014/03/01/ten-things-i-remember-about-the-future/

Why Daydreamers Will Save the World
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140224153333-10842349-why-daydreamers-will-save-the-world

NASA’s CT-2 Preps for Larger Deep Space Launches
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7178/NASAs-CT-2-Preps-for-Larger-Deep-Space-Launches.aspx

Professors, We Need You!

In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones

In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones

Fact Checking the Nuclear Energy File

Fact Checking the Nuclear Energy File

Next SpaceX Visit to the ISS Will Test Booster Relanding Controls

Headlines: Next SpaceX Visit to the ISS Will Test Booster Relanding Controls

Are We Measuring Methane Accurately in Calculating GHG Emissions?

Are We Measuring Methane Accurately in Calculating GHG Emissions?

Dyson Invests in Robotic Vision Research
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7133/Dyson-Invests-in-Robotic-Vision-Research.aspx

NASA Research Aims to Print Wood in Space
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7132/NASA-Research-Aims-to-Print-Wood-in-Space.aspx

NASA Develops Star Trek-Inspired Gadgets That Can Heal Injured Astronauts and Eliminate Animal Testing
http://inhabitat.com/nasa-develops-star-trek-inspired-gadgets-heal-injured-astronauts-and-eliminate-animal-testing/

The ISS to Be Home to NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7096/The-ISS-to-Be-Home-to-NASAs-Cold-Atom-Lab.aspx

Climate Change and U.S. National Security: a Geoeconomic Approach

Climate Change and U.S. National Security: a Geoeconomic Approach

The Future of Military Force
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2014/02/24/the_future_of_military_force_107102.html

Boundless Natural Gas, Boundless Opportunities: Interview with EIA Chief
http://blog.cleantechies.com/2014/02/24/boundless-natural-gas-boundless-opportunities-interview-with-eia-chief/#sthash.MkOf1qt2.dpuf

Henry Ford Gave Innovators The Wrong Message About The Value Of History
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/21/henry-ford-gave-innovators-the-wrong-message-about-the-value-of-history/

No Longer Science Fiction: Start-Up Unveils Radical Consciousness Technology
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-weinkauf/no-longer-science-fiction_1_b_4688935.html

Machine Consciousness: Fact Or Fiction?
http://footnote1.com/machine-consciousness-fact-or-fiction/

3D bioprinting the human body — infographic
http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/gadget/newsid=34156.php

Extremism and terrorism are the other price that humankind pays for successful Silicon Valley startups
http://man-as-media.com/2014/01/08/extremism-and-terrorism-are-the-other-price-that-humankind-pays-for-successful-silicon-valley-startups/

The Internet of Things and CIA concern
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Homeland-Security-Today-4364804?trk=my_groups-b-grp-v

The Science Behind Procrastination
http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/the-science-behind-procrastination

It’s Official: Microsoft Is Going Down
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140228214728-64875646-it-s-official-microsoft-is-going-down

The Internet Of Things Is Going To Bring A Plethora Of Challenges
http://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/internet-things-going-bring-plethora-challenges/#.UxS_hIjAt-c.twitter

Eterni.me will create a computer version of you for when you die
http://www.gizmag.com/eterni-me-death-avatar/31053/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=twitterfeed

New 3D-image modelling technology enables anyone to have a 3D digital doppelgänger
http://www.mpg.de/7975368/bodylab-3D-modelling-technology

“Think before you speak“
http://www.mpg.de/7959561/temporal_coordination-thinking_speaking

New drug against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s on the way
http://www.mpg.de/7955496/anle138b_alzheimer_parkinson

Searching for Earth’s twin
http://www.mpg.de/7957207/PLATO

Royal Society and US National Academy of Sciences release joint publication on climate change
http://royalsociety.org/news/2014/climate-change-evidence-causes/

Mystery of marine mammal stranding solved
http://royalsociety.org/news/2014/whale-standings-atacama/

Science in court: Disease detectives
http://www.nature.com/news/science-in-court-disease-detectives-1.14775

Alternative lengthening of telomeres in cancer stem cells in vivo
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/onc2013603a.html

Evidence for quantum annealing with more than one hundred qubits
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v10/n3/abs/nphys2900.html

The Right Reason for Entrepreneurship

The Right Reason for Entrepreneurship

U.K. To Legalize Three-Parent IVF?
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39318/title/U-K–To-Legalize-Three-Parent-IVF-/

Bacteria’s Role in Bowel Cancer
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39314/title/Bacteria-s-Role-in-Bowel-Cancer/

Plants Without Plastid Genomes
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39313/title/Plants-Without-Plastid-Genomes/

Behavior Brief
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39307/title/Behavior-Brief/

Next Generation: Seeing Brain Tumors
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39302/title/Next-Generation–Seeing-Brain-Tumors/

Engineered Molecules for Smarter Medicines
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/engineered-molecules-for-smarter-medicines

The Challenge of Manufacturing Between Macro and Micro
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/the-challenge-of-manufacturing-between-macro-and-micro

Simulating Star Formation on a Galactic Scale
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/simulating-star-formation-on-a-galactic-scale

Twisted Math and Beautiful Geometry
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/twisted-math-and-beautiful-geometry

Electronic Floor Sensors Turn Whole Rooms Into Immersive Touchscreens
http://gizmodo.com/electronic-floor-sensors-turn-whole-rooms-into-immersiv-1531835835

Interactive Virtual Reality In 3-D, The Newest Learning Tool
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026765/interactive-virtual-reality-in-3-d-the-newest-learning-tool

Drone Cargo Ships Will Make the Real World Work Like the Internet
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/drone-cargo-ships-will-make-real-world-work-just-like-internet/

6 Industries That Will Profit From Global Warming
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/climateprofiteers/

Tooth Regeneration Now Possible with New Stem Cell Research

Tooth Regeneration Now Possible with New Stem Cell Research

Key trends from the world’s biggest mobile technology show
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/tech/mobile/mobile-world-congress-top-trends-smartphone/index.html

The Internet of Things Space is being enhanced by Cisco
http://marketeyewitness.com/internet-things-space-enhanced-cisco/

Smartphone-Piloted Drones Could Support US Troops on Front Lines
http://www.livescience.com/43545-darpa-cargo-drone.html

No Hands! Mind-Controlled Helicopter Flies On Brainwaves
http://www.livescience.com/43250-mind-controlled-quadcopter.html

Can Gadgets Really Tell The Future?
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026853/can-gadgets-really-tell-the-future

Can Quantum Communication Work For Underwater Vehicles and Sensors?
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525166/can-quantum-communication-work-for-underwater-vehicles-and-sensors/

Why The New American Workforce Wants Better Consumption, Not Just More
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026869/why-the-new-american-workforce-wants-better-consumption-not-just-more

How Growing Buildings Underwater Could Fight Climate Change
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026694/how-growing-buildings-underwater-could-fight-climate-change

Images Of New York City in 2017 As An Unequal, Hellish Surveillance State
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026737/images-of-new-york-city-in-2017-as-an-unequal-hellish-surveillance-state

Multinationals See Reputations Eroding from Tax Planning
http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/Multinationals-Reputations-Eroding-Tax-Planning-69850-1.html

Willis Study: Tech Firms Point to Dependence on Outsourced Vendors as Cyber Threat
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/willis-study-tech-firms-point-to-dependence-on-outsourced-vendors-as-cyber-threat-2014-03-03?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Why Teens Are the Most Elusive and Valuable Customers in Tech
http://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/inside-massive-tech-land-grab-teenagers.html?cid=sf01001

A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE: POPULATION SIZE
http://elizagreenbooks.com/2014/03/02/a-dystopian-future-population-size/?utm_content=bufferc0730&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Technology: Rise of the replicants
on.ft.com/1gNlGWz

The CIO: More Than a Network Steward
http://simplifywork.blogs.xerox.com/2014/03/03/the-cio-more-than-a-network-steward/

QUOTATION(S): “…The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable…”

CITATION(S): “…If you plot the basic measures of the price to performance and capacity of information technologies (for example, computer instructions per second per constant dollar, bits of memory per dollar, or the total number of bits being moved around over the Internet), they follow remarkably smooth — and foreseeable — trajectories. This observation goes well beyond Moore’s Law (which says you can place twice as many transistors on an integrated circuit every two years); in the case of computation, it goes back to the 1890 American census, long before Gordon Moore was even born .… What’s predictable is that these measures grow exponentially, not linearly, though our intuition about the future is linear, which is hard-wired in our brains. This makes a remarkable difference. Thirty steps linearly gets you to 30, whereas 30 steps exponentially (2, 4, 8, 16…) gets you to a billion .… And it’s not just electronics and communications that follow this exponential course. It applies as well to health, medicine and its related field of biology. The Human Genome Project, for instance, saw the amount of genetic sequencing double and the cost of sequencing per base pair come down by half each year .… A computer that fit inside a building when I was a student now fits in my pocket, and is a thousand times more powerful despite being a million times less expensive .… In another quarter century, that capability will fit inside a red blood cell and will again be a billion times more powerful per dollar…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (25) Correlate everything else with the ignored and unthinkable ‘else’ of everything else forever.

BOOK(S): The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. ISBN-13: 978–0316346627.

N.B.: Quotations, Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist and Success Consultant
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By Avi Roy, University of Buckingham and Sven Bulterijs, Yale University

The complexity in biology is astounding. That is why biologists are thankful that model organisms, like the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, can be used to breakdown biological processes into simpler units.

C. elegans is a particular favourite. It grows in the exact same way from a single fertilised egg cell to 959 cells as an adult. Its body is transparent which has allowed scientists to map its growth and study internal changes to great detail.

In a paper published in Nature recently, En-Zhi Shen at the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing and colleagues have used C. elegans to make an intriguing discovery. Based on a process that occurs in each cell’s power house, mitochondria, they claim to be able to predict the lifespan of that organism.

In nature, electrons are found in pairs in orbit around the atom’s nucleus. A free radical is created when an atom has an unpaired electron whizzing around the nucleus. Inside mitochondria, there is formation of such free radicals called reactive oxygen species.

The mitochondria produces many types of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as by-products of the normal metabolic process, including superoxide, hydrogen peroxide, and nitric oxide. These free radicals propelled by their unpaired electrons seek to find other molecules in the cells from whom they can steal an electron and thereby damage them. Thus, free radicals can damage DNA and stop proteins and lipids from performing their functions in the cell. This process of stealing electrons from functional molecules by reactive oxygen species and its resulting damage is known as oxidative stress.

Shen thought that if they were able to measure the amount of oxidative stress in the worms they may be able to predict how long they would live. Shen had previously discovered that the mitochondria in cells produce sudden short bursts of free radicals which could be counted.

When Shen studied C. elegans with added proteins that glow in the dark because of oxidative stress, she could detect levels of oxidative stress by measuring the flashes of light, termed mitoflash, emitted by proteins which detect free-radicals produced by the mitochondria. The more mitoflashes that happen within a certain window of time, the higher the amount of free radicals produced by the mitochondria.

Using the mitoflash method, an individual worm can be observed during the entirety of its 21-day lifespan. These worms are at the peak of their reproductive ability during the second and third day of their lives. Soon after this, the worms start their steady decline towards old age and by about the fifteenth day most of them are considered old.

Shen discovered that there were two periods in the lifespan of the worm when oxidative stress increased. The first was around the third day, when the worms are laying their eggs and the other was around the fifteenth day when the worms were old.

They then compared these finding using other worms who were engineered to have longer or shorter lifespans. Consistently, they found that worms with low amounts of mitoflashes during the third day of their lives lived longer compared to worms with higher mitoflashes. Interestingly, the number of mitoflashes on ninth day was not predictive of lifespan. Shen, therefore, thinks that oxidative stress levels of a worm during early life can determine how long they can live.

Telling age in a flash

Shen’s work improves on previous worm studies by hinting that free radicals produced by mitochondria especially in early life may be a central mechanism driving the decline during ageing.

Also, the results of this study agree with the free radical theory of ageing, which assumes that the diseases of ageing result due to the increasing inability of cells to repair damage caused by oxidative stress. This theory predicts that organisms that have long lives must lower their oxidative stress by producing more antioxidants.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t happen in real life. Human beings live much longer lives in spite of producing much fewer antioxidants compared to rats, hamsters, mice and rabbits. And studies involving dietary supplementation of antioxidants show an inverse relationship between antioxidant levels and life span. The claim that oxidative stress in early life may be a predictor of lifespan may work in some worms but it will certainly be of no use in humans.

The authors do not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article. They also have no relevant affiliations.

This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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LIST OF UPDATES (FEBRUARY 17 THROUGH 21/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC 777 Wearable glasses help surgeons view cancer​​​​​​​​ cells in real time http://www.kurzweilai.net/wearable-glasses-help-surgeons-view-cancer-cells-in-real-time

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DHS, Purdue Develop Social Media Analysis Tool to Monitor Crime http://www.executivegov.com/2014/02/dhs-purdue-develop-social-media-analysis-tool-to-monitor-crime/#sthash.gJM1msiI.dpuf

The Global Search for Education: What Israel Did http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-m-rubin/the-global-search-for-edu_b_4797810.html

Virgin America Wants To Turn Boring Plane Flights Into Awesome Networking Sessions http://www.businessinsider.com/category/virgin-america

The World’s Most Powerful 3-D Laser Imager http://www.technologyreview.com/news/524166/the-worlds-most-powerful-3-d-laser-imager/

Scientists Create Virtual Brain to Study Neurological Disorders http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/02/16/scientists-create-a-virtual-brain-to-study-neurological-disorders/65956.html

Scientists to create frozen zoos on other planets? http://innovation.uk.msn.com/planet/scientists-to-create-frozen-zoos-on-other-planets

Welcome to the Future of Transportation http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/welcome-future-transportation

The Power of Unintentional Collaboration http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-power-of-unintentional-collaboration/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sm-direct

‘Hand of God’ Spotted by NASA Space Telescope (Photo) http://www.space.com/24225-hand-of-god-photo-nasa-telescope.html?cmpid=514630_20140217_18570724

Education is the key to smart security preparation http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/education-is-the-key-to-smart-security-preparation-1221637

NASA Finds Clues That There’s Flowing Water On Mars http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/02/10/nasa-finds-clues-that-theres-flowing-water-on-mars/

The World’s Most Powerful 3-D Laser Imager http://www.technologyreview.com/news/524166/the-worlds-most-powerful-3-d-laser-imager/

Explore 10 trends that offer CIOs the opportunity to shape tomorrow and to transform “business as usual.” http://dupress.com/articles/2014-tech-trends-introduction/?id=gx:2sm:3li:dup563:cons:tt14:awa:021414?id=gx:2sm:3li:dup563:cons:tt14:awa:021414

Cameras That Can See Through Walls! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLtzilM0epg

Aquaponics: The Answer to California’s Drought? http://www.bloomberg.com/video/aquaponics-the-answer-to-california-s-drought-hv6OppkgRdm2pEvmG3U_Dw.html

Why the Tiny Home Movement May Not be So Tiny http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2014/02/why-the-tiny-home-movement-may-not-be-so-tiny/

A termite-inspired robot construction team http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-termite-inspired-robot-construction-team

Helping robots collaborate http://www.kurzweilai.net/herding-robots

Robots with insect brains http://www.kurzweilai.net/robots-with-insect-brains

Four new galaxy clusters discovered some 10 billion light years from Earth http://www.kurzweilai.net/four-new-galaxy-clusters-discovered-some-10-billion-light-years-from-earth

What makes us human? Unique brain area linked to higher cognitive powers http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205212015.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29

5 (Relatively Simple) Steps To B2B Social Media Marketing Success http://www.fastcompany.com/3026450/dialed/5-relativity-simple-steps-to-b2b-social-media-marketing-success?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29

Q&A: What studying networks can tell us about the world and ourselves http://news.yale.edu/2014/02/11/qa-what-studying-networks-can-tell-us-about-world-and-ourselves

Iran proposes joint naval exercise with Russia. Show of strength as interim nuclear deal takes effect http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2014/02/14/iran-proposes-joint-naval-exercise-with-russia-meant-to-check-u-s-warships-in-region/#sthash.N154fUpi.dpuf

Chronic Pain Common in Teens with Mental Health Problems http://americannewsreport.com/nationalpainreport/chronic-pain-common-teens-mental-health-problems-8823025.html

Is truth stranger than fiction? Yes, especially for science fiction http://phys.org/news/2014-02-truth-stranger-fiction-science.html

The Future of Work by 2020 http://www.elsua.net/2013/05/22/the-future-of-work-by-2020/

Personalized medicine by 2020 and other futuristic healthcare predictions (infographic) http://medcitynews.com/2012/08/personalized-medicine-by-2020-this-and-other-predictions-on-the-future-of-healthcare-infographic/#ixzz2tLx3xLZP

NASA Invites Private Companies To The Moon http://www.popsci.com/article/science/nasa-invites-private-companies-moon

How The Internet Of Things Is More Like The Industrial Revolution Than The Digital Revolution http://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2014/02/10/more-1876-than-1995/

Atheer Glasses, the Best Way to Experience the Future http://arabnet.me/atheer-glasses-best-way-experience-future/

Next-Gen Nanotech Breath Sensor Could Change How We Monitor Health http://www.medgadget.com/2013/10/hold-next-gen-nanotech-sensor-could-change-the-way-we-monitor-health.html

Will your clothing spy on you? http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/13/will-your-clothing-spy-on-you/?iid=SF_F_River&utm_content=bufferba667&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Two Female VCs Launch Silicon Valley Firm To Show Diversity Equals Profit http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026479/two-female-vcs-launch-silicon-valley-firm-to-show-diversity-equals-profit

How to Adjust to the Silver-Tsunami of Working Baby Boomers? http://synecticsworld.com/how-to-adjust-to-the-silver-tsunami-of-working-baby-boomers/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=3977617#

Colonialism’s Enduring Dividends. Why European Companies Have an Advantage in Emerging Markets http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140776/bhaskar-chakravorti-jianwei-dong-kate-fedosova/colonialisms-enduring-dividends

Ad Infinitum. ‘Our Mathematical Universe,’ by Max Tegmark. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/books/review/our-mathematical-universe-by-max-tegmark.html?_r=0

Yahoo’s Mayer Views 2014 as Tech ‘Tipping Point’ http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/yahoos-mayer-2014-tipping-point-for-technology/

Social platform for sharing cyberthreat intell goes live http://gcn.com/articles/2014/02/11/activetrust.aspx

QUOTATION(S): “…The forces shaping your future are digital [and mathematical], and you need to understand them…” AND “…You can’t understand the knot without understanding the strands, but in the future, the strands need not remain tied up in the same way as they are today…” AND “…ALL CHILDREN ARE BORN GENIUSES; 9,999 OUT OF EVERY 10,000 ARE SWIFTLY, INADVERTENTLY DEGENIUNIZED BY GROWNUPS…” AND “…Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020 .… We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are ‘things’ outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not .… We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body…” AND “…People are always [and wrongfully] assuming that everything that is going to be invented must have been invented already. But it hasn’t…”

CITATION(S): “…We have the Internet that we have today because the Internet of yesterday did not focus on the today of yesterday…” AND “…Legal scholars can debate whether copyright law mandates a future of ‘authorized use only’ for digital information. The answer may not matter much, because that future is coming to pass through the technologies of digital rights management and trusted systems…” AND “…Can we envision the future transcontinental flights, where books, music, images, and videos are automatically extracted, sampled, mixed, and remixed; fed into massive automated reasoning engines; assimilated into the core software of every personal computer and every cell phone ─ and thousands of other things for which the words don’t even exist yet?…” AND “…Governments of the Industrial World, your weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You have no so sovereignty where we gather .… We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity … In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits .… [Y]ou are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (18) Foster momentum by creating virtuous cycles that build credibility and by avoiding getting caught in vicious cycles that harm credibility. (19) Institute coalitions that translate into swifter organizational adjustments to the inevitable streams of change in personnel and environment. BOOK(S): A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink (ISBN-13: 978–1594481710).

N.B.: Quotations, Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini

Risk-Management Futurist and Success Consultant

http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

THE OMNISCIENT TRUTH ABOUT OUTER-SPACE INTELLIGENCE AND WHAT THE OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENT HAS TO DECLARE ABOUT IT! BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI.

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I have the glory to have read every book by Dr. Raymond Kurzweil with the sole exception of “Transcend.”

Dr. Kurzweil is an engineer graduate from grandiose M.I.T. (the technological avant-garde within the Ivy League universities).

Beyond his many inventions, patents, and scientific breakthroughs and discoveries, please remember that Ray holds 19 doctoral degrees among many other amenities.

I exactly relish the way he exercises his mind. And instead of fighting sourly against his contrarians, he kindly and respectfully invites them to lavishly publish the opposing views on books and blogs.

Ray is a pervasive sage by any known or unknown measure. He is now the Chief Engineer Officer at Google and the Chairman of the Singularity University (founded by him with the institutional backing of NASA and Google).

We all like the Founding Fathers, especially Jefferson and Franklin. But tons of Americans and others seem to frequently and prevalently ignore this Hi-Tech Founding Father.

Within his duties at Google, he is embarked into the greatest scientific advancement in order to transform any illness or biological cause of death (natural death) into a superseded cure (outright state of well-being), radically.

HE IS INTO STRINGENT R&D&I TO MAKE HUMAN DEATH A THING OF THE PAST.

I also argue that he will be auspiciously fighting against challenges and problems in order to systemically and systematically reverse-engineer biology and the human brain with the utter purpose of seizing the correct software templates for Strongest Quantum Supercomputing.

In “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” (ISBN-13: 978–0143037880) book, Ray argues that most extraterrestrial beings might, just might, exhibit a grayish look because they are the trans-exobiologicals stemming from [outer-space and infinitely beyond] advanced exobiological civilizations.

Trans-exobiologicals are exobiologicals who have transcended their own exobiology.

Having said that and since the advent of his landmark book (I wish all fact-driven books were written like this canonical marvel), he has given many interviews and speeches about The Technological Singularity.

As a process of that, one day Ray ended up giving a seminal keynote to the upper management and scientists at SETI Institute. SETI, an American Organization, stands for Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Conversely, the about one-hour talk was about the Technological Singularity and the Law of Accelerating Returns as it posited by Ray himself.

Towards the end of the keynote, one or two SETI scientists told Ray that, as per their own research, they were considering as a probable and plausible scenario to be that extraterrestrials’ domicile was within the immeasurable limits of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

The original and official YouTube video published by SETI is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6hU4lS9_kI

In the mean time, kindly please have a lot of educational and propitious fun in ignored flanks both in Computronium and the Omniverse.

Mr. Andres Agostini

www.linkedin.com/in/andresagostini

The Future of Space-Age Risk Management: Transformative and Integrative Risk Management!. https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/03/omniscentia

http://ThisSuccess.wordpress.com

AS A CONSULTANT, MANAGER, STRATEGIST AND RESEARCHER, ANDRES WORKS AND HAS WORKED WITH INSTITUTIONS ─ AND THE RESPECTIVE EXECUTIVES OF SAID ORGANIZATIONS ─ SUCH AS:

► Toyota,

► Mitsubishi,

► World Bank,

► Shell,

► Statoil,

► Total,

► Exxon,

► Mobil,

► PDVSA, Citgo,

► GE,

► GMAC,

► TNT Express,

► AT&T

► GTE,

► Amoco,

► BP,

► Abbot Laboratories,

► World Health Organization,

► Ernst Young Consulting,

► SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation),

► Pak Mail,

► Wilpro Energy Services,

► Phillips Petroleum Company,

► Dupont,

► Conoco,

► ENI (Italy’s petroleum state-owned firm),

► Chevron,

► LDG Management (HCC Benefits).

FEBRUARY 10/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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UPDATE 1-China central bank urges proper management of risk, liquidity
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/08/china-economy-cenbank-idUSL3N0LD08720140208

Iran sending warships close to U.S. borders
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/iran-warships-us-borders-103288.html

Apple’s Tim Cook on Plans for Cash and Emerging Markets
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/07/apple-still-a-growth-company-cook-says-in-journal-interview/

World’s first 3D-printed titanium bicycle frame could lead to cheaper, lighter bikes
http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-titanium-bicycle-frame/30760/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=twitterfeed

Ignore the Unemployment Rate. The most totemic statistic about the U.S. economy is archaic and misleading
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303496804579364852603962422?mod=rss_economy&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303496804579364852603962422.html%3Fmod%3Drss_economy

Why Problems Are An Entrepreneur’s Best Friend
http://www.forbes.com/sites/janbruce/2014/01/28/why-problems-are-an-entrepreneurs-best-friend/

Gastric surgery increases risk of alcoholism
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/gastric-surgery-increases-risk-of-alcoholism-9117066.html

Snowden nicked NSA docs with common tool, raising more concern about agency — report
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57618608-38/snowden-nicked-nsa-docs-with-common-tool-raising-more-concern-about-agency-report/

Tribeca and CERN Want To Change Storytelling With A Hackathon
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026107/tribeca-and-cern-want-to-change-storytelling-with-a-hackathon?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29

3D Printed Hip Implant Allows Teen to Finally Walk
http://3dprint.com/3d-printed-hip-implant-allows-teen-to-finally-walk/

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole

High Potential for Life Circling Alpha Centauri B, our Nearest Neighbor

High Potential for Life Circling Alpha Centauri B, our Nearest Neighbor

Countervailing motion
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21595937-fed-may-be-tapering-central-banks-japan-and-europe-are-still

Toyota’s $1 Billion Fine Begs Question: Do We Really Want To Regulate This Way?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2014/02/08/toyotas-1-billion-fine-begs-question-do-we-really-want-to-regulate-this-way/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Single-pole magnet emerges in frozen concoction

Single-pole magnet emerges in frozen concoction

The 50 Most Powerful Women in Business: Global edition
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2014/02/06/global-most-powerful-women.fortune/index.html?utm_content=buffer57fa8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

How To Win When You Fail
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231260

How the speed of technological change can be an opportunity
http://fcw.com/articles/2014/02/05/smith-speed-of-change.aspx

Welcome to the Multiverse
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/18-out-there-welcome-to-the-multiverse?fb_action_ids=10152146804300795&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=.UvcDY83MTtE.like&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582#.UvcVIYWGiHd

Quantum Computing: A Primer

Quantum Computing: A Primer

What the Singularity Will Mean at the Office
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/02/06/what-the-singularity-will-mean-at-the-office/

Alvin deep-sea sub cleared to start next half-century of service
http://www.gizmag.com/alvin-return/30617/

U.S. Experimented With Nuclear Fracking
http://orwellwasright.co.uk/2014/02/02/u-s-experimented-with-nuclear-fracking/

Terrific: Iranian warships approaching U.S. maritime borders
http://www.caintv.com/breaking-iranian-warships-appr

How To Keep Your Team And Make Your Startup Acquisition Succeed

How To Keep Your Team And Make Your Startup Acquisition Succeed

‘Minority Report’ technology is real and it’s here (and it’s cool)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140204/BLOGS11/140209960/minority-report-technology-is-real-and-its-here-and-it-s-cool#

Nanotechnology holds promise for security applications
http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/11293426/a-look-at-how-researchers-are-developing-nanotechnology-sensors-that-could-be-used-in-security-applications

7 Ways To Be More Productive At Work
http://www.investopedia.com/slide-show/7-ways-productive-work/

The Inevitable Collision Of Technology and Politics

The Inevitable Collision Of Technology and Politics

New Journal Article Sheds Light on Past Earth Warming Events

Headlines: New Journal Article Sheds Light on Past Earth Warming Events

Why Steve Ballmer Left Microsoft Better Than He Found It
http://www.cio.com/article/747901/Why_Steve_Ballmer_Left_Microsoft_Better_Than_He_Found_It

11 Ways to Improve Your IT Team’s Productivity
http://www.cio.com/article/747843/11_Ways_to_Improve_Your_IT_Team_s_Productivity

Experts Warn of Russian Spying, Hackers at Sochi Olympics
http://www.cio.com/article/747846/Experts_Warn_of_Russian_Spying_Hackers_at_Sochi_Olympics

How to Get the Job You Want in 2014’s Hot IT Job Market
http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/139241/How-to-Get-the-Job-You-Want-in-2014-s-Hot-IT-Job-Market

‘Natural cities’ emerge from location-based social media
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/02/08/natural-cities-emerge-from-location-based-social-media/

MBAs by the Hour: Disrupting the Consulting Model
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/mbas-by-the-hour-disrupting-the-consulting-model-C2P52grNSVatnpqqYFIolQ.html

Gmail, Hangouts, and other Google services are back to normal after service outage (update)
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/24/5342252/gmail-hangouts-and-other-google-services-are-down-right-now

6 Attention-Grabbing Direct Mail Designs
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230746

Stanford Re:Think Roundup: Achieving Success in Business and Beyond
http://stanfordbusiness.tumblr.com/post/76140155106/stanford-re-think-roundup-achieving-success-in

A robot in every home: Dyson enters race to provide ‘advanced household androids’ for all
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/a-robot-in-every-home-dyson-enters-race-to-provide-advanced-household-androids-for-all-9117372.html

Hack a 3D Printer Into a Surprisingly Skilled Air Hockey Robot
http://gizmodo.com/hack-a-3d-printer-into-a-surprisingly-skilled-air-hocke-1518317429

LAPD IT Chief: “Israel Has Some Amazing Tech”
http://i-hls.com/2014/02/lapd-chief-israel-amazing-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lapd-chief-israel-amazing-tech

Stanford scientists put free text-analysis tool on the web
http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/stanford-scientists-put-free-text-analysis-tool-web

3 Ways to Test the Accuracy of Your Predictive Models
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/3-ways-to-test-accuracy-your-predictive-models.html

Big Chinese Internet Companies Are Competing Head On Against Chinese Banks
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-banks-battle-internet-financial-cos-2014-2

Experiment Is Crowdfunding Science Projects, Just Don’t Ask Them To Find Bigfoot
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/02/07/experiment-is-crowdfunding-science-projects-just-dont-ask-them-to-find-bigfoot/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Energy firms’ gas profit margins questioned by minister
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26112330

How Micro-Location, Geofencing and Indoor Location Are Driving The Retail Revolution

Opinion piece: How Micro-Location, Geofencing and Indoor Location Are Driving The Retail Revolution

Climate change: Weather of Olympian extremes
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/09/leader-climate-change-weather-olympian-extremes?CMP=twt_fd

FDA Panel to Weigh Painkillers’ Cardiac Risk
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303874504579372854079768512?mod=rss_Health&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303874504579372854079768512.html%3Fmod%3Drss_Health

Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy. And It’s Dangerous to Hero-Worship Entrepreneurs
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/silicon-valley-isnt-a-meritocracy-and-the-cult-of-the-entrepreneur-holds-people-back/

WIRED Space Photo of the Day
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/wired-space-photo-of-the-day-feb-2014?cid=co18314714#slide-id-534261:full

This Is The Best Free Online Course For Entrepreneurs
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-online-course-for-entrepreneurs-2014-2

The cost of capital is higher for entities that are not audited
http://www.kpmg.com/global/en/topics/value-of-audit/interview/pages/roderick-devlin.aspx?utm_medium=social%E2%80%90media&utm_campaign=2014-adt-value&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=gbl+2014+jan+7+value+rod+tw&sf1404795=1

New Business Models Need New Approaches to IT
http://cioofthefuture.com/new-business-models-need-new-approaches-to-it/

The 10 Weirdest Things Thieves Steal: 24/7 Wall St.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/09/weird-steal_n_4756679.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

Why Is EnerNOC Funding a Solar Software Startup?
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/enernoc-invests-in-genability?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreentechMedia+%28Greentech+Media%29

Yelp And Yahoo Are Reportedly Teaming Up

Yelp And Yahoo Are Reportedly Teaming Up

Does grass-fed beef have any heart-health benefits that other types of beef don’t?
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease/expert-answers/grass-fed-beef/FAQ-20058059

Starwatch: Supernova in Ursa Major
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/09/starwatch-supernova-ursa-major?CMP=twt_fd

Warren Buffett Made A Bet In 2008 That Has The Potential To Make The Hedge Fund Industry Look Very Bad
http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffetts-hedge-fund-bet-2014-2

Victorian fires: emergency continues after at least 20 homes lost — live updates
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/victorian-fires-emergency-homes-lost-live-updates?CMP=twt_fd

Climate slowdown? Just wait until the wind changes
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25015-climate-slowdown-just-wait-until-the-wind-changes.html

NASA is now accepting applications from companies that want to mine the moon
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/9/5395684/nasa-begins-hunt-for-private-companies-to-mine-the-moon-catalyst

Entering the Era of Private and Semi-Anonymous Apps
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/entering-the-era-of-private-and-semi-anonymous-apps/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Three rules for success: Michael Raynor at TEDxUniversity

QUOTATION(S): “…It reminds us that, in our accelerating, headlong era, the future presses so close upon us that those who ignore it inhabit not the present but the past …” AND “…The future is not a privilege but a perpetual conquest…”

CITATION(S): “…The world has profoundly changed … The challenges and complexity we face in our personal lives and relationships, in our families, in our professional lives, and in our organizations are of a different order of magnitude. In fact, many mark 1989 ─ the year we witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall ─ as the beginning of the Information Age, the birth of a new reality, a sea change of incredible significance ─ truly a new era ─ Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option ─ survival in today’s world requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness [long-held assumptions, fallacies and flawed beliefs and faulty conventions]…Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today’s new reality REQUIRES A SEA CHANGE IN THINKING: a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set ─ in short, a whole new habit…”

BOOK(S): The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage by Yossi Sheffi. ISBN-13: 978–0262693493

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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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

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

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

uArm, A Mini Robotic Arm You Can Assemble and Control


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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

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Mr. Andres Agostini
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