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For years, laws have been put into place to discourage distracted driving: no texting while driving, no talking on the phone while driving, the list goes on. General Motors is taking things a step further by commissioning a vehicle that detects and alerts drivers to their distracted behavior.

The Financial Times reports that General Motors is preparing to launch the first mass-produced vehicles with eye- and head-tracking technology to detect distracted behaviors in drivers.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 23, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

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THE ECONOMIST: Quantum biology. How quantum theory is helping to explain the mysteries of life science http://lnkd.in/ePv-wAq

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Genetics Epidemic. The Revolution in DNA Science — And What To Do About It http://lnkd.in/diHn3YP

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Neuronal “Superhub” Might Generate Consciousness. Could a thin, enigmatic layer of nerve cells be a key component of the networks generating conscious experience? http://lnkd.in/dPmnSHz

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Amazon and Google Change Places on Going Green. Google recently explained its pullback on sustainability while Amazon has just announced a “long-term commitment” to achieve 100 percent renewable energy use http://lnkd.in/eDw32U6

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Oxford University researchers trial drugs against Ebola http://lnkd.in/eKp-nnX

FORBES: Cloud Computing Adoption Continues Accelerating In The Enterprise http://lnkd.in/eshAW45

THE REGISTER: Renewable energy ‘simply WON’T WORK’: Top Google engineers. Windmills, solar, tidal — all a ‘false hope’, say Stanford PhDs http://lnkd.in/eaHnCHZ

IBM: Does ubiquitous connectivity mean less security? Take a closer look at today’s security risks—from new threats arising on the Internet of Things, to the sources of malware and botnet infections http://lnkd.in/eYpuTJZ

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Drones Sighted by Pilots Landing at JFK Airport in New York City Show New Risks. One Drone Came Within 5 to 10 Feet of a Jetliner’s Wing http://lnkd.in/eR6Capx

TECH CRUNCH: Makerclub Helps You Learn 3D-Printed Robotics http://lnkd.in/eRuiRc8

IEEE Spectrum: DARPA Wants to Turn Military Planes Into Flying Drone Aircraft Carriers http://lnkd.in/eZpr62Z

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: China unveils first amphibious UAV http://lnkd.in/e29xXbD

THE ECONOMIST: If Obama’s actions really do defy the people’s will, Republicans will soon be in a great place to undo them http://econ.st/1xZZv9B

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Banking Culture Primes People to Cheat http://lnkd.in/ejFV7Ad

NEW YORK TIMES: In Change of Strategy, China Cuts Interest Rate http://lnkd.in/eZTGPT8

WASHINGTON POST: How the United States can counter the ambitions of Russia and China http://lnkd.in/eDGpm8K

BLOOMBERG: Printable Rockets, Brought to You by Geeks With Deep Pockets http://lnkd.in/eJCJ-e7

FCW.com : IARPA unveils work on predictive intelligence http://lnkd.in/e2Wzb2q

GIZMODO: These Tiny Robots Are Designed To 3D Print Whole Buildings http://lnkd.in/e3sFxZD

Archinect: Mini-robots may outcompete 3D printing in the evolution of construction http://lnkd.in/e6TvJPk

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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Russia’s ‘Breakthrough’ energy project enables closed a nuclear fuel cycle and a future without radioactive waste. The first batch of MOX nuclear fuel has been manufactured for the world’s only NPP industrially power generating breeder reactors.

The first ten kilograms of the mixed-oxide fuel (MOX) — a mixture of plutonium and uranium dioxides (UO2 and PuO2), have been industrially produced by Russia’s nuclear monopoly, Rosatom, at the Mining & Chemical Combine (GKhK) in the Krasnoyarsk region.

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The movie is grandiose and beautifully done. Especially the young girl at the outset is an incredibly strong real-life personality. The movie brings together the issue of planetary survival – under the onslaught of a never explained progressive lethal scourge – with the redeeming power of black holes used as a vehicle to reach a distant twin earth to be colonized by a select few.

The scenario is ingenious because the two topics – planetary survival and black holes – are intertwined on our own planet as well. The movie therefore functions much like a nightly dream which reshuffles some elements of the daylight reality to enable the sleep to go on while still remaining decipherable after waking up. The current terrestrial situation is not at all unrelated – with black holes figuring decisively in it as well.

In this optically and acoustically overwhelming immersion, for the first time in history the basic effect which a black hole exerts on its vicinity is made palpable. The viewer becomes an eyewitness to the emotional ordeal gone through by the protagonist (a trained jet pilot originally) when he suddenly realizes what it means that he and his buddy are by a technical problem forced to stay for a few more minutes fairly deep down in the gravitational funnel of a giant black hole: That this means that decades will pass by on the outside during those very minutes – so his young daughter whom he so much longs to see again will afterwards be older than he is now. And indeed, when he returns at the end of the movie, she is lying on her death bed in old age, with all her descendants assembled around her.

The movie thereby makes “gravitational time dilation” a palpable experience on the viewer’s own body and mind. And it does the same thing to the specialists’ minds, so I am sure. Textbook knowledge can never replace being made an eyewitness in person. You are now able to realize yourself what happens if you get even closer to the surface (or “horizon” as my friend Wolfgang Rindler named it) of a black hole. The answer is that you will in the limit of going down to the horizon itself be faced with an infinitely old universe on your return.

The movie in a less vivid way also employs a “wormhole” at one point – using an Einstein-Rosen bridge between a black hole and a white hole glued together at the waist – in order reach a very far-away sister earth. However, this is a forgivable dramaturgic effect. In reality, the bridge is unfortunately closed unless putting up with a twice-infinite traveling time as far as the outside world is concerned is made part of the mission.

When you have watched the movie and do now read this, you will have difficulty believing me that this intuitive time-delaying effect, witnessed when you saw the captain cringe under the sacrifice of losing years of simultaneity with his beloved daughter, happens to be strangely unknown to the specialists of the trade. My task is now to explain this second paradox which is not a physical one.

I almost feel tempted to act like my friend John Wheeler did when a journalist pressed him to explain why he no longer believed in the many-worlds theory of his pupil Hugh Everett, replying: “Please, Mr. X, spare me the task of explaining because I then might suffer a relapse.” But in earnest: No one can explain this historical blind spot of the scientific community. Or to stress the positive side: No one can explain how Kip Thorne, the movie’s scientific adviser and former pupil of Wheeler’s, could possibly conceive of the mentioned scene with the father’s deep sorrow, for it is so maximally hard to go against the grain of a whole learned community – even if what is at stake as here is as maximally uncontroversial and simple as the “immortal scene” witnessed by us.

So that scene is uncontroversial? Absolutely, but totally unknown. The explanation is a historical one. No other field in science is as difficult as black hole theory is in the famous formalism of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Only nerds survive: They eventually can swim freely but have by then lost contact to the shore. Nothing is wrong with their elegant swimming suits – the mathematical “transformations” used to get farther out with a solution. Only the connection to the shore got severed. These transformations are allowed mathematically but not physically. So it could happen that the viewers and the movie makers alike would get decoupled from the specialists in effect – not for their being less but for their being more knowledgeable for once. The scene with the slowed bodily clocks is common knowledge on paper in principle but not at all in the hearts. It indeed is no one’s fault that the two hemispheres in the heads of the scientific community were never forced together before. This makes the scene and the movie unique.

But why does this point make the whole movie vitally important? This has to do with our own planet. Humankind is doing everything it can to produce miniature black holes down on earth. This was attempted for three years already, and the plan is to after a year’s pause for reconstruction continue at twice the power in a few weeks’ time from now. Yet the experimenters hereby forgot the fact that nothing can get-in into a black hole in finite outer time. This follows from the scene in the movie by assuming the astronauts to have plunged deeper and deeper. And the experimenters forgot, too, that nothing can get out from the horizon in finite outer time. Black holes are never even finished in finite universe time since everything gets infinitely slowed-down – “frozen” – in their vicinity as we witnessed with the minutes that corresponded to years when one was still quite far outside. Since the horizon does not even form in finite outer time, the commonly accepted “life insurance” against mini black holes produced down on earth – the famous “Hawking evaporation” – is only an elegant mathematical formula that has no substance physically speaking. So it does not prevent – as everyone in the community unfortunately believes it does – that a first successfully produced mini black hole will get stuck inside earth to grow there exponentially. Presently, Ebola is doing the same thing on the surface of the earth as everyone has learned. Yet even here, no one appears to fully understand what “exponential growth” means: that it may soon be too late to save a whole capital or country or continent. Remember the disbelieving king in the fable who underestimated the number of rice grains on his checkerboard when every next field contains twice as many? 2 to the 64 is big. But 64 is not the end in reality. This growth law is what makes for a genuine scourge whereever it applies. The earth would be shrunk to 2 cm after a silent period of only a few years, by a mini black hole got stuck inside, no one denies.

This is the atmosphere into which the science-fiction movie INTERSTELLAR got released on our real earth. The European Nuclear Research organization which tries to produce the minis has so far decided not to renew their 6 years old Safety Report ahead of restarting at twice the power in a few weeks’ time from now. Once INTERSTELLAR has turned a whole planet into specialists in understanding gravitational time dilation by using their own guts and hearts, however, earth’s citizens can no longer be denied the right to be offered a renewed safety report. Thus after a fictional movie gave away the decisive secret of black holes, a whole planet now has a brighter future if the present report or its gist is taken up by the media. I believe that one reader will make this happen.

CERN could then attempt to stem the tide by getting the movie off the screen to have the dangerous scene removed. More effective would be to stop advertising the movie. But I am dreaming: Why should anyone believe me? It is the young people who have watched the movie. Each viewer has suddenly come close to Einstein’s heart. Conversely, Einstein is maximally pleased – so I can dare say from what I learned from John Wheeler about him – regarding the fact that the time-slowing scene gives the planet an enhanced chance for survival by getting the 6 years old safety report renewed as an inalienable birth right. So I simply stop after saying that Johnny Wheeler would be proud of Kip Thorne for his opening-up the eyes of a whole planet with a movie! And after not forgetting to remind the young actress from the movie’s beginning to, please, remain as strong as you are!

For J.O.R.

FUTURISM UPDATE (November 22, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

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BBC NEWS: Robots face new test of creative abilities. A US professor is proposing a new way to test whether artificial intelligence (AI) is on a par with that of humans. http://lnkd.in/eq8HWGx

FINANCIAL TIMES: Google break-up plan emerges from Brussels. The European parliament is poised to call for a break-up of Google, in one of the most brazen assaults so far on the technology group’s power. http://lnkd.in/eBaysU3

THE ECONOMIST: Is Germany’s economy getting too weak to pull Europe out of its crisis? http://lnkd.in/e6vF9kU

WALL STREET JOURNAL: When Can We Expect Truly Autonomous Vehicles? http://lnkd.in/d5CDhAG

FINANCIAL TIMES: Surgeons embrace 3D printed implants to save NHS time and cash. From complex reconstructive facial surgery to dentures and hip implants, surgeons across the UK are using 3D printing to improve treatments and save time and money for the National Health Service. http://lnkd.in/eRMeidS

FORBES: Is the US Stock Market Unhealthy? http://lnkd.in/e76xbGc

FORBES: Businesses Don’t Move To The Cloud: DATA Does http://lnkd.in/e2CFAz3

GIGAOM: The Future of Artificial Intelligence http://lnkd.in/eWHe_8n

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Amazon and Google Change Places on Going Green. Google recently explained its pullback on sustainability while Amazon has just announced a “long-term commitment” to achieve 100 percent renewable energy use. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amazon-and-google-change-places-on-going-green/

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: How brain cells persuade other cells to do ‘the wave’ http://lnkd.in/eKpvg9R

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: How neurons multitask http://lnkd.in/e3pPfXG

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Georgia Tech professor proposes another alternative to the Turing test. The Lovelace 2.0 Test of Artificial Creativity and Intelligence assesses a computer’s capacity for human-level intelligence by its ability to create, rather than to converse or deceive http://lnkd.in/e6e4eet

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: China and ‘one or two others’ can shut US electric grids and other critical infrastructure, says NSA director http://lnkd.in/e2ZExYZ

THE ECONOMIST: VLADIMIR PUTIN is not short of problems, many of his own creation. There is the carnage in eastern Ukraine, where he is continuing to stir things up. There are his fraught relations with the West, with even Germany turning against him now. There is an Islamist insurgency on his borders and at home there is grumbling among the growing numbers who doubt the wisdom of his Ukraine policy. But one problem could yet eclipse all these: Russia’s wounded economy could fall into a crisis. http://lnkd.in/e_EXuhK

THE WIRE: It’s Totally Normal That Joe Biden’s Son (Hunter Biden) Works for a Ukrainian Energy Company http://lnkd.in/ewFHCty

BBC NEWS: Ukraine crisis: Joe Biden warns Russia faces ‘isolation’ http://lnkd.in/eA-eZbd

Phys.Org: Engineering team increases power efficiency for future computer processors http://lnkd.in/ewPhhdG

Phys.Org: Multiphysics invisibility cloak manipulates both electric current and heat http://lnkd.in/eaqM4qe

The Week Magazine: How quantum computing could change everything. It could revolutionize encryption — and help us peer even deeper into the underlying fabric of reality http://theweek.com/article/index/269850/how-quantum-computing-could-change-everything

WIRED: New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time http://lnkd.in/d2Td34p

NEW SCIENTIST: What’s behind snowmageddon that hit the US this week? http://lnkd.in/esH7zr4

BLOOMBERG: Top U.S. diplomat under FBI investigation after conversation involving Pakistani official: http://bloom.bg/1tb2WWs

CHINA, NOT THE WEST, IS BUILDING ITS OWN(ATLANTIC-PACIFIC) NICARAGUA CHANNEL TO OUT-COMPETE THE PANAMA CANAL. BBC NEWS: Nicaragua canal: Construction to begin in December http://lnkd.in/eqMJCAC

TIME: Hong Kong Protest Sites Slammed By ‘Largest Cyberattack Ever’ http://lnkd.in/e5nQpqY

COMPUTERWORLD: Google to build quantum-computing processors. Google has partnered with scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara to build new processors for use in quantum computing systems. http://lnkd.in/e_xBjaJ

CIO MAGAZINE: Intel planning thumb-sized PCs for next year http://lnkd.in/en47Afu

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: 3D Printed Human Liver Tissue Now Commercially Available by Organovo http://lnkd.in/edtB-Mv

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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Dezeen Magazine

News: building work has begun in Beijing on the National Art Museum of China by French architect Jean Nouvel, who beat Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid in a competition for the project in 2013.

The design for the National Museum of China (NAMOC) by Jean Nouvel features an intricately patterned perforated facade, which wraps around part of the building.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 21, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

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CleanTechnica: Biomimicry Run Amok: New Micro Air Vehicles Can Swarm Like Bees http://lnkd.in/dMpRCPB

FINANCIAL TIMES: Space junk or Russian satellite killer? It is a tale that could have come from the cold war. A mysterious object launched by the Russian military is being tracked by western space agencies, stoking fears over the revival of a defunct Kremlin project to destroy satellites. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cdd0bdb6-6c27-11e4-990f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3JdykV8Dw

TECH CRUNCH: Eric Schmidt’s Farm2050 Collective Will Back Agriculture Tech To Feed Earth’s Growing Population http://lnkd.in/eBAaTfe

CIO MAGAZINE: Brace yourselves, Singularity is inevitable: Andrew McAfee. Medium-skilled wages are slipping, says MIT research scientist. It’s not too hard to see a world where humans struggle to stay relevant as machines far outpace their intelligence and capabilities. This is what Andrew McAfee, research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Second Machine Age, discussed at the Gartner Symposium on the Gold Coast. http://lnkd.in/eNdCKXM

TECH CRUNCH: Eric Schmidt’s Farm2050 Collective Will Back Agriculture Tech To Feed Earth’s Growing Population http://lnkd.in/eBAaTfe

Washington Post: HP’s bold plan to become the first mainstream 3D printing company http://lnkd.in/e5eYrJV

Reuters: Russia warned the United States on Thursday against supplying arms to Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, hours before U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden was due to arrive in Kiev. http://lnkd.in/eWz5mvP

Engadget: JFK Airport has a drone problem http://lnkd.in/eVizey3

MAGNIFICENT UNETHICAL AND UNIVERSALLY CARELESS KAIZEN. FORBES: U.S. Calls For Nationwide Recall of Takata Airbags http://lnkd.in/exCNSPH

Manufacturing Business Technology: Will Robots Replace Humans? American manufacturing has had great success in automating factories with robots and computers in the last 50 years, and computers are now eliminating many service jobs. This has caused a lot of speculation about how far artificial intelligence can be developed. Universities and scientists also add to the excitement by promoting artificial intelligence with futuristic potentials as they try to get their share of federal grant money. The big question that often arises is, when will computers be able to emulate humans and become self aware and intelligent?

CBC.ca: Facial recognition software to aid Calgary police in future investigations. 1st police agency in Canada to use the software, say Calgary officials http://lnkd.in/ekReTAd

NEW YORK TIMES: In Argentina’s Debt Case, No Winners, but a Lot of Losers. http://lnkd.in/eYFSxsX

FORTUNE: Google’s Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe http://lnkd.in/ejXFKqB

ENGINEERING: 3D Printed Micro-Actuators Could Delever the Medicine of the Future http://lnkd.in/eYxnFTQ

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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Quoted: “Bitcoin technology offers a fundamentally different approach to vote collection with its decentralized and automated secure protocol. It solves the problems of both paper ballot and electronic voting machines, enabling a cost effective, efficient, open system that is easily audited by both individual voters and the entire community. Bitcoin technology can enable a system where every voter can verify that their vote was counted, see votes for different candidates/issues cast in real time, and be sure that there is no fraud or manipulation by election workers.”

Read the article here » http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239809?hootPostID=ba473face1754ce69f6a80aacc8412c7

By Paul Rubens — BBC

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Passwords are a pain. We choose simple words that are easy to remember, but equally easy for hackers to guess.

Yet we still forget them. And they also get stolen with alarming frequency.

The reported theft of 1.2 billion email passwords by Russian hackers earlier this month was just the latest in a long string of major password security breaches that have led some people to wonder if the use of passwords should be abandoned.

But what are the alternatives?

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