Nanotechnology
Sunday, September 24th, 2006 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »When it has been fully developed, molecular nanotechnology will be able to create almost any structure consistent with the laws of physics and chemistry. Nanotech assemblers will do so by manipulating individual atoms, building physical materials from the bottom ...
The Singularity
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »When intelligence on earth has hit a wall in computational capacity enforced by the laws of physics, the Singularity will have happened. Can we make reasonable guesses as to what kinds of events are likely to lead up to ...
Cultured Meat
Thursday, September 21st, 2006 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »Alternet in July of 2006 posted a decidedly paranoid response to the development of "in vitro meat," meat cultured in laboratories free of animal suffering. The article demonstrates that progressive news media may still latch onto bioconservative political stances. ...
Memes
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »The "meme" is a term coined by Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene, published in 1976. Dawkins observed that ideas are subject to the same manner of evolutionary patterns as genes, undergoing diffusion, mutation, and ...
SENS
Monday, September 4th, 2006 Posted in SENS | No Comments »For those concerned with preserving life despite the many reasonable arguments to the contrary, Strategies for Engineering Negligible Senescence is a project spearheaded by Cambridge biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey. SENS takes a goal-directed approach to eliminating aging, rather ...
Existential Risk
Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »With advanced destructive technologies becoming increasingly affordable to develop, error or deliberate misuse resulting in near-term human extinction has never before posed such an immediate threat. If you find discussions of this sort offensive, please read no further. The threat ...
Neurodiversity
Friday, September 1st, 2006 Posted in Futurism | No Comments »Asperger’s Syndrome is a neurological condition named by Austrian doctor Hans Asperger. His child patients' fondness for demonstrating their detailed knowledge on a given topic made them resemble “little professors," tending to focus intently on a certain limited range ...