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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 15, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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BUSINESS INSIDER: Dubai Crashed, Qatar Crashed, And The Rest Of The Gulf States Got Smoked http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-gulf-stocks-reel-on-sliding-oil-prices-2014-12#ixzz3Lu9XTWzd

InfoWorld- Google wants you to design the Internet of things. Impatient for the Internet of things, Google is providing seed money for researching new technologies https://lnkd.in/eRFnwpp

Wired- Butterflies, Ants and the Internet of Things https://lnkd.in/eKQiFVG

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Bankers, watch out for the robots: Goldman Sachs has invested in a company that could use algorithms instead of analysts https://lnkd.in/ecfWW-n

CNNMoney- China wants to build a train system near you https://lnkd.in/ea_3-t7

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY: Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains https://lnkd.in/ewBTqsq

REUTERS: Asian shares fall to nine-month low as oil prices sink https://lnkd.in/eiaES3y

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: How cheap oil changes the world https://lnkd.in/e4gxzFG

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

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Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

https://www.FACEBOOK.com/agostiniandres

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html

@AndresAgostini

@ThisSuccess

@SciCzar

Written By: — Singularity Hub

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Why blow billions of dollars on space exploration when billions of people are living in poverty here on Earth?

You’ve likely heard the justifications. The space program brings us useful innovations and inventions. Space exploration delivers perspective, inspiration, and understanding. Because it’s the final frontier. Because it’s there.

What you haven’t heard is anything to inspire a sense of urgency. Indeed, NASA’s struggle to defend its existence and funding testifies to how weak these justifications sound to a public that cares less about space than seemingly more pressing needs.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 14, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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ZDNet- Professional jobs at risk from robotics and automation: Govt http://www.zdnet.com/article/professional-jobs-at-risk-thanks-to-robotics-and-automation/

POPULAR SCIENCE: Secretive D.O.D. Drone Dodges Defenses At Hypersonic Speed. A new weapon in America’s superfast arms race with China https://lnkd.in/eK7-KUA

ENGINEERING: US Manufacturing Tech Orders Dive, Yet Tool Orders Soar.…What Does it Mean? https://lnkd.in/e2zknG3

PHYS.ORG: Is an understanding of dark matter around the corner? Experimentalists unsure https://lnkd.in/e7bk4B9

REUTERS: Russia says will react if U.S. imposes new sanctions https://lnkd.in/ea4m3HM

BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: A global natural gas boom alone won’t slow climate change https://lnkd.in/esJW8T2

BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: Russia’s latest provocations: Business as usual? https://lnkd.in/eVngNSc

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: A Step Toward Artificial Cells, Built from Silicon. A microfluidic cell copies some basic functions of life. https://lnkd.in/eficBbR

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: How Africa is changing Chinese oil companies https://lnkd.in/eQCwWR9

PC WORLD: The future is now: The 10 biggest tech innovations of 2014 https://lnkd.in/eu3m5Pn

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: RoboBrain: The World’s First Knowledge Engine For Robots https://lnkd.in/evGUwn2

The Economist- International trade. A troubling trajectory. Fears are growing that trade’s share of the world’s GDP has peaked. But that is far from certain https://lnkd.in/efe6KCX

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html

@AndresAgostini

@ThisSuccess

By Rachel Metz — MIT Technology Review

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“I want to quit Google,” the message on my iPhone read. “It’s boring here.”

Posted by an anonymous user in San Francisco to the confessional app Secret, the message quickly gained attention; after four days, it had received 78 comments, ranging from “just means you’re not on the right project” to “I quit Google, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.” At times, the original poster chimed in, saying things like: “I’ve been there a long time. Many jobs. The company no longer values initiative, and promotion is very slow.”

Many of us are addicted to sharing status updates on Facebook, photos on Instagram, and thoughts on Twitter. But real, raw honesty is tricky online. It’s hard to say what you really think when your true identity is attached, especially if your post could get you in trouble, either now or years down the line. That bored Googler on Secret wouldn’t be likely to voice those thoughts online under his or her real name—even if doing so could be therapeutic or even lead to other job options.

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By Colin Campbell — Polygon

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Firaxis’ strategy game Civilization: Beyond Earth, shows humankind populating new worlds. Set in a not-too distant future, the game demands that players choose and invest in technologies to ease their path.

Much research went into the technology choices utilized in the game, due to be released on Windows PC on Oct. 24. While previous Civilization games have charted technological progress in the past, Beyond Earth is a matter of conjecture and futures studies.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (December 12, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Tracking microdoses of carcinogens as they move through the body http://www.kurzweilai.net/tracking-microdoses-of-carcinogens-as-they-move-through-the-body

THE DES MOINES REGISTER: Iowa to launch smartphone driver’s license http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/08/iowa-digital-smartphone-drivers-license/20114979/

PHYS.ORG: Baby steps towards molecular robots https://lnkd.in/eMTHWUx

BBC NEWS: Russia Baltic military actions ‘unprecedented’ — Poland https://lnkd.in/eUn-mTK

The Economist- Geoengineering the climate. Scientific studies of techniques for deliberately modifying the climate are getting ready to move out of the laboratory https://lnkd.in/e_Nwi_H

Bloomberg- Brazil Prosecutors Charge 35 in Petrobras-Linked Corruption Case https://lnkd.in/eR__vYH

New York Times- Putin and Modi Reaffirm Bond Between Russia and India http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/world/asia/putin-and-modi-reaffirm-bond-between-russia-and-india.html?_r=0

RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE EXCELLENT LEARNING DEVICES FOR THE INCUMBENTS OF THE WEST. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz

The Guardian- Will eternal life become a reality? http://www.theguardian.com/game-changers/2014/dec/11/will-eternal-life-become-a-reality

Royal Society of Chemistry- Cutting edge chemistry in 2014 http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/12/cutting-edge-chemistry-2014-year-roundup

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html

@AndresAgostini

@ThisSuccess

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This archive file was compiled from audio of a discussion futurist FM 2030 held at the University of California, February 6th, 1994. In this discussion 2030 laid out an overview of his ‘transhuman’ philosophy and held a back and forth with other people present in the discussion. Discussion and debate included items such as the value of researching ‘indefinite lifespan’ technologies directly as opposed to (or in addition to) more traditional approaches, such as researching cures for specific diseases.
The excerpts in this archive file present a sort of thesis of FM 2030’s transhuman ideas.

About FM 2030: FM 2030 was at various points in his life, an Iranian Olympic basketball player, a diplomat, a university teacher, and a corporate consultant. He developed his views on transhumanism in the 1960s and evolved them over the next thirty-something years. He was placed in cryonic suspension July 8th, 2000. For more information about FM 2030, view the GPA Archive File: ‘Introduction to FM 2030′ or visit some of the following links:

Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030

Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies:
ieet.org/index.php/tpwiki/Transhuman

The New York Times:
nytimes.com/2000/07/11/us/futurist-known-as-fm-2030-is-dead-at-69.html

GPA on Facebook: on.fb.me/18NiF8z
GPA on Twitter: twitter.com/GPA203

Written by Jason Koebler — Motherboard

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Remember when a majority of new tech jobs were going to India and China? Well, increasingly, those jobs are going away altogether. Outsourcing, it turns out, is in the early stages of being automated.

This morning, news broke that Yahoo would be laying off at least 400 workers in its Indian office, and back in February, IBM cut roughly 2,000 jobs there. Cisco has been considering cuts in India as well.

Labor in India and China is still cheaper than it is in the United States, but it’s not the obvious economic move that it was just a few years ago: Wages in India have increased about 10 percent annually over the last five years, according to Cliff Justice, an analyst who studies outsourcing.

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