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FUTURISM UPDATE (October 01, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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THE PROBLEM IS NO TECHNOLOGY BUT UNIVERSAL CORRUPTION. WIRED: Sorry, But Technology Alone Can’t Help Us Build a Better World http://lnkd.in/eEsg_zU

ATTENTION! I am not unconditionally in favor of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation. This Civilization is NOT PREPARED AT ALL and it is putrefied with abject universal corruption. Ergo, this Civilization will have a chance of 3% to ever make it!

BBC News: China blocks British MPs’ visit to Hong Kong http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30267026

New York Times: Leader Asserts China’s Growing Role on Global Stage http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/world/asia/leader-asserts-chinas-growing-role-on-global-stage.html?_r=0

In the entire northern side of the Western Hemisphere and Eurabia, it is IMPOSSIBLE to speak about Peace, Ethics, Leadership, and Gentle Bosses, and the Values of the Human Consciousness and Intelligence over Artificial Intelligence while the GREAT MAJORITY OF THE WEST IS INTO DOPED SODOM AND DRUNK GOMORRAH. The West has made itself intellectually castrated to countermeasure China and Russia.

Daily Beast: China’s Nicaragua Canal Could Spark a New Central America Revolution (Countermeassuring North America’s Panama Canal) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/30/china-s-nicaragua-canal-could-spark-a-new-central-america-revolution.html

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia Pushing for Oil-for-Goods Deal With Iran http://lnkd.in/eknj3H9

MOSCOW TIMES: Putin Heads to Ankara to Deepen Energy Ties With Turkey http://lnkd.in/eKm7But

REUTERS: Mubarak verdict fuels protests, mockery in Egypt http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/30/us-egypt-mubarak-protests-idUSKCN0JE0ID20141130

Financial Times: China: Fear of a deflationary spiral http://lnkd.in/eH5aX2B

Financial Times: How Russia outmanoeuvred the west in Ukrainian finance http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c141d720-770c-11e4-944f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3KaaocqUV

Financial Times: James Watson to sell Nobel Prize medal http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5fb47ebe-75bc-11e4-a1a9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3KaaocqUV

The Economist: Brussels and budgets. The European Commission decides not to pick to fight with fiscal laggards http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21635236-european-commission-decides-not-pick-fight-fiscal-laggards-lion-miaowed

Design & Trend: How To Stop Automation From Making Us Dumber http://www.designntrend.com/articles/28039/20141129/stop-automation-making-dumber.htm

Computerworld: How automation could take your skills — and your job http://www.computerworld.com/article/2845383/how-automation-could-take-your-skills-and-your-job.html

CIO: What CIOs Can Learn From the Biggest Data Breaches http://www.cio.com/article/2845618/data-breach/what-cios-can-learn-from-the-biggest-data-breaches.html

NOBODY IS GOING TO SPUTNIK ISRAEL, NEITHER MILITARY, NOR TECHNOLOGICALLY. VERY, VERY SOON, ISRAEL, THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL HOTBED, IS GOING TO OUTSMART EVERY CHALLENGE. ISRAEL WILL BE CONQUERING THE START-UP MARKETPLACE. AND WHEN ISRAEL PREVAILS, I WILL HAVE A BOTTLE ON CAMPAIGN ON THEIR GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CULTURE. BRAVO! /// BY THE WAY, WESTERNERS FROM THE NORDIC WESTERN HEMISPHERE, INCLUDING DANIEL GOLDMAN, SHOULD LEARN THE PROFOUND FUNCTIONALIZED NOTION OF “PRUDENCE” AND “TACT” OF MY ISRAELI BROTHERS.

THE GUARDIAN: Nobel laureates call for a revolutionary shift in how humans use resources http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/07/nobel-laureates-call-for-a-revolutionary-shift-in-how-humans-use-resources

IRRESPONSIBILITY IS A FUNCTION OF IGNORANCE. WALL STREET JOURNAL: In a Twitter Post, Malaysia Airlines Sends the Wrong Message http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-tweet-sends-wrong-message.html?ref=technology

YOU WILL BE EATEN ALIVE SOONEST. WALL STREET JOURNAL: Wal-Mart and Target Take Fight to Amazon for Holiday Sales http://lnkd.in/ezXwdfx

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Delivery Drones Win an Endorsement From London’s Mayor http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/11/28/delivery-drones-win-an-endorsement-from-londons-mayor/?mod=ST1

DON’T BE STUPID, DRIVERLESS CARS ARE AN EUPHEMISM TO ROBOTIC CARS AND ERGO, MORE MIND CONTROL AND MORE MOBILITY CONTROL.

New Scientist: Run your own experiment using CERN’s public LHC data http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26604-run-your-own-experiment-using-cerns-public-lhc-data.html#.VHvB6Mn5N30

Russian Money Suspected Behind Fracking Protests http://nyti.ms/1yyy9IK

NATURE: Nuclear power: Desperately seeking plutonium. NASA has 35 kilograms of plutonium-238 to power its deep-space missions — but that will not get it very far. http://lnkd.in/ev84T9p

NATURE: Cancer: Antitumour immunity gets a boost http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7528/full/515496a.html

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 Nicholas West — ZenGardener.com

There has been much speculation about what could be achieved in the area of human brain-to-brain transfer of information.

A series of studies have intimated at the possibilities:

Now an international team is declaring a successful brain-to-brain data transfer between a person sitting in India to a receiving person in France.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 30, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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Toronto Star: Computer glitch sends $20M in overpayments to social assistance recipients http://lnkd.in/eQJMkvu

Washington Post: Russian warships pass through English Channel, anchor off the coast of France http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-warships-pass-through-english-channel-anchor-off-coast-of-france-and-do-exercises/2014/11/28/9765bf6c-7706-11e4-8893-97bf0c02cc5f_story.html

Foreign Affairs: Back to Europe’s Future http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142342/david-schoenbaum/back-to-europes-future

BBC News: Japan: Train fans experience super-fast maglev speed http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-30051961

Quartz: Maglev elevators are coming that can go up, down, and sideways http://qz.com/303624/maglev-elevators-are-coming-that-can-go-up-down-and-sideways/

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Floating train could whisk you from DC to NY in an hour http://lnkd.in/e6SRzCP

The Seattle Times: Inslee pushes incentives for electric cars http://lnkd.in/ef5Bd7V

SLATE: Why Vladimir Putin has cozied up to an Orthodox Jewish sect: http://slate.me/1tAq005

CBC.ca: Climate change survey reveals Canadians’ fears for future generations http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-change-survey-reveals-canadians-fears-for-future-generations-1.2852605

Phys.Org: Reports identify areas where wildlife can survive in a changing climate http://phys.org/news/2014-11-areas-wildlife-survive-climate.html

Changing climate and rising seas: Understanding the science http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1411/S00299/changing-climate-and-rising-seas-understanding-the-science.htm

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

Wired.com

The message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.”

ES is Edward Snowden, the most wanted man in the world. For almost nine months, I have been trying to set up an interview with him—traveling to Berlin, Rio de Janeiro twice, and New York multiple times to talk with the handful of his confidants who can arrange a meeting. Among other things, I want to answer a burning question: What drove Snowden to leak hundreds of thousands of top-secret documents, revelations that have laid bare the vast scope of the government’s domestic surveillance programs? In May I received an email from his lawyer, ACLU attorney Ben Wizner, confirming that Snowden would meet me in Moscow and let me hang out and chat with him for what turned out to be three solid days over several weeks. It is the most time that any journalist has been allowed to spend with him since he arrived in Russia in June 2013. But the finer details of the rendezvous remain shrouded in mystery. I landed in Moscow without knowing precisely where or when Snowden and I would actually meet. Now, at last, the details are set.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 29, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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BBC News: Royal Navy launches first ‘drone’ unit http://lnkd.in/ezyfkNj

FINANCIAL TIMES: China has ‘wasted’ $6.8tn in investment, warn Beijing researchers http://lnkd.in/eEAePxA

REUTERS: Saudi Arabia declares price war on U.S. shale http://lnkd.in/ex83vU4

REUTERS: EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google http://lnkd.in/eYxYA25

REUTERS: Canadian startups woo Silicon Valley expats for top jobs http://lnkd.in/eH6HftJ

BLOOMBERG: What Tech-Worker Shortage? http://lnkd.in/ejzNWHR

MOSCOW TIMES: Cheap Oil Threatens Russia With Recession, Deficits and Oil Output Falls http://lnkd.in/ejpSYA3

MOSCOW TIMES: Russians Split on Whether to Blame Oil, Sanctions or Crimea for Economic Woe http://lnkd.in/eYs-d2m

DER SPIEGEL: The Jihad Cult: Why Young Germans Are Answering Call to Holy War http://lnkd.in/eB_dqbf

DER SPIEGEL: The Global Hunt for an Ebola Vaccine http://lnkd.in/eCSPxv9

FORBES: Goldman Sachs Leads $15 Million Investment In Tech Start Up Kensho http://lnkd.in/eSFhsmR
BLOOMBERG: OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says http://lnkd.in/efd-zEv

BLOOMBERG: CNBC, Telegraph and Independent Hacked by Pro-Assad Group http://lnkd.in/e448-fh

Washington Post: A simple guide to the sudden collapse in oil prices http://lnkd.in/esRPaZn

Fox News: How low can it go? Oil, gas prices in freefall as OPEC reels from US fracking http://lnkd.in/e2EC3CV

THE TIMES OF INDIA: China wants to push polluting ‘sunset’ industries to India http://lnkd.in/eb9bdyV

THE GUARDIAN: Europe’s next privacy war is with websites silently tracking users http://lnkd.in/eYkNNzx

( Phys.org): New largest number factored on a quantum device is 56,153 http://lnkd.in/eSe7G9K

ENGINEERING: Blue Ray Discs Could Hold A Key to Better Solar Cells http://lnkd.in/eHMipZ6

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Michigan State police wants to use drones soon http://lnkd.in/esyQR24

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: The race towards quantum computation http://lnkd.in/epBsgG4

IEEE Spectrum: A New Kind of Atom Trap Chip for Quantum Computers http://lnkd.in/eDtmCV8

IEEE Spectrum: DIY Exoplanet Detector. You don’t need a high-powered telescope to spot the signature of an alien world http://lnkd.in/e5Mx8hH

IEEE Spectrum: NTSB Decision Defining “Aircraft” as Anything That Flies Lacks Common Sense http://lnkd.in/e2uD3Qx

IEEE Spectrum: Startups Get the Kinks Out of Drones, Online Shopping, Mobile GPS and Other Techs http://lnkd.in/e8z3bBC

IEEE Spectrum: Can China Turn Carbon Capture into a Water Feature? http://lnkd.in/eqiSB5V

POPULAR SCIENCE: America’s Laser Gun Goes To War http://lnkd.in/eE-J-st

POPULAR SCIENCE: A Genetic Fog Machine That Tags Criminals http://lnkd.in/e9XdnbZ

POPULAR SCIENCE: DARPA FLASH. Military technology for safer firefighting http://lnkd.in/eFCAcey

POPULAR SCIENCE: Underwater Robot Maps Polar Ice In 3-D http://lnkd.in/e4smm5w

POPULAR MECHANICS: Meet the First 3-D Printed Object Made in Space http://lnkd.in/eAAVV3K

InformationWeek: Rethink Robotics Turns Robots Into Better Co-Workers http://lnkd.in/e5G-vQs

Reuters: Deregulation at heart of Japan’s new robotics revolution http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/19/us-japan-robots-idUSKCN0J32DS20141119

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

Kurzweil AI

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/variable-stiffness.jpg

Purdue University researchers are developing a robotic fabric that moves and contracts and is embedded with sensors, an approach that could bring “active clothing” and a new class of soft robots.

Such an elastic technology could make possible robots that have sensory skin, stretchable robotic garments that people might wear for added strength and endurance, “g-suits” for pilots or astronauts to counteract the effects of acceleration, and lightweight, versatile robots to roam alien landscapes during space missions.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 28, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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TechCrunch: GoPro Could Go Robo With Consumer Drones Launching Next Year http://lnkd.in/e_Zc-K4

Financial Times: Cheap energy is the new cheap labour. For companies wondering where to locate, the world has turned upside down http://lnkd.in/eyWJ3AN

Business Insider: A Single Number Explains Why Radical Politics In Spain Are Here To Stay http://www.businessinsider.com/spanish-youth-unemployment-and-radical-politics-2014-11#ixzz3KJxEhaHX

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Spain’s Health Minister Resigns Over Corruption Inquiry. Ana Mato Not Charged But Judge Said She Benefited From Alleged Kickback Scheme http://online.wsj.com/articles/spains-health-minister-resigns-over-corruption-inquiry-1417041346

BLOOMBERG: Singapore’s wealthy stung as crude oil rout sinks bonds http://bloom.bg/127LNFX

BLOOMBERG: China at $4.48 trillion surpasses Japan as 2nd biggest equity market after U.S. http://bloom.bg/1vSWw52

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

This archive file was compiled from an interview conducted on the campus of Singularity University, February 2013. The interview took place at a time where new artificial intelligence systems, such as IBM’s Jeopardy winning “Watson,” were re-awakening the popular imagination in terms of artificial intelligence becoming a visible part of day to day life. The privacy issues regarding the ‘big-data’ that allowed many AI systems to function was also becoming a significant source of controversy. In this piece, Marty Kohn, MD, chief medical scientist on the IBM Watson Medical Team, gives insight into his personal thoughts and feelings regarding how society might both accept and reject the artificial intelligence advances of the coming years.

About the Speaker:
IBM:
researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-marty.kohn

FutureMed:
futuremed2020.com/marty-kohn/

FUTURISM UPDATE (November 27, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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Forbes: Automation Is On The Rise: Will Robots Soon Be Commonplace? http://lnkd.in/dYGpdAD

THE ECONOMIST: The ZEV’s invisible tailpipe. Are zero-emission vehicles cleaner than petrol cars? It all depends… http://lnkd.in/er_9ihg

CIO Magazine: 60 things European legislators don’t want Canada to learn about air passengers http://lnkd.in/eh88ND9

WIRED: How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap http://lnkd.in/evESr9U

RT: UN sounds alarm on rise of autonomous ‘killer robots’ http://lnkd.in/deijvgf

Wall Street Journal: Chinese Official Says West Is Hampering Anticorruption Efforts.China Says Prejudices of Some Western Officials Are Blocking Efforts to Retrieve Fugitives Involved in Corruption Cases http://lnkd.in/eDaHCAh

BBC NEWS: Electricity blackouts would cause ‘severe economic consequences’ http://lnkd.in/eKGHwV4

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL): Lab, RAND Corporation partner to advance policy analysis through supercomputing http://lnkd.in/edXNQK9

BRICS AND IRAN AND OTHERS ARE GOING TO SET UP THEIR OWN TYPE OF NATO. IN THE MEAN TIME, THE CURRENT NATO IS FORMED THROUGH EURABIA. BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Challenge U.S. Global Dominance http://lnkd.in/eA_esDS

NEW SCIENTIST: First digital animal will be perfect copy of real worm http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429972.300-first-digital-animal-will-be-perfect-copy-of-real-worm.html?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=twitter&cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2014-GLOBAL-twitter#.VHaub8n5N31

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 Zak Cheney-Rice — News.Mic

The news: Russian cosmonauts have discovered something remarkable clinging to the outside of the International Space Station: living organisms.

The microscopic creatures appeared during a space walk intended to clean the vessel’s surface, and were allegedly identified — incredibly — as a type of sea plankton. This is big: According to Sploid, Russian scientists are both “shocked by [the] discovery and can’t really explain how [it] is possible.”

“Results of the experiment are absolutely unique,” Russian ISS Orbital Mission Chief Vladimir Solovyev told the ITAR-TASS News Agency. “This should be studied further.”

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