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"The 1st Human to Live to 1,000 is Alive Today" -A Galaxy Insight"The 1st Human to Live to 1,000 is Alive Today" -A Galaxy Insight Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 ...
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TKK - News: Single-atom transistor discoveredSingle-atom transistor discovered Posted on 03 Dec 2009 17:52:16. Helsinki University of Technology TKK Press release December 3rd, 2009 Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have ...
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The Methuselah Manifesto - Reason MagazineLos Angeles, California—If you’re under age 30, it is likely that you will be able to live as long as you want. That is, barring accidents and wars, you have centuries of healthy life ahead of you. So the participants in the Longevity Summit convened in Manhattan Beach, California, contend. Over ...
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Rainbow trapped for the first time - physics-math - 26 November 2009 - New ScientistOh, to catch a rainbow. Well, it's been done for the first time ever – and with just a simple lens and a plate of glass at that. The technique could be used to store information using light, a boon for optical computing and telecommunications. All-optical computing devices promise to be ...
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Micro Machines and Opto-Electronics on a Contact Lense | h+ MagazinePrototype contact lenses powered by radio waves can be used for heads up displays (HUDs) Mathematician and SF writer Vernor Vinge has a thing for contact lenses. Wearing the special contact lenses he describes in his fiction –- coupled with computers in clothing and locational sensors ...
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ MagazineWhen surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, what biological systems have fine-tuned for eons, from nanobots ...
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Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix | h+ MagazineGhost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix When surveying the goals of transhumanists, I found it striking how heavily many of them favor conventional engineering. This seems inefficient and inelegant, since such engineering reproduces slowly, clumsily and imperfectly, ...
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Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? The Simulation Argument On this website you can peruse the debate that followed the paper presenting the Simulation argument. The original paper is here, as are popular synopses, scholarly papers commenting on the first paper, and a couple of replies ...
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Introductory Reading | The Singularity Institute for Artificial IntelligenceBostrom, N. 2003. Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence . In Cognitive, Emotive and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making in Humans and in Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 2, pp. 12-17. Bostrom, N. 2003. The Transhumanist FAQ: A General Introduction . Published by the World ...Benjamin Mayhew added 3 weeks ago