First used in its current sense by mathematician and scifi writer Vernor Vinge in 1993, and introduced to popular culture by technology futurist Ray Kurzweil 1n 2005, the Singularity is the theoretical future point of hyper-accelerating societal, scientific and economic change made possible by the emergence of machine superintelligence.
The premier dialog on the Singularity, […]
Not just a sci-fi fantasy…
Abstract
We have improved upon the methodology and dramatically shortened the time required for accurate assembly of 5- to 6-kb segments of DNA from synthetic oligonucleotides. As a test of this methodology, we have […]
You see where I’m going with this…genetic sequences that express as skin cells with toxic substance-detection capability.
It starts here: as Karen Lurie writes in ScienCentral: Super Screener, Lydia Sohn and Omar Saleh have fabricated a miniscule, silicon-based sensor that functions much like a pore.
An artificial pore etched into a […]
Thanks to Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends blog for finding Pitt research delves into amazing shrinking computer chips.
Next step (an admittedly big one): nanoscale genetic assemblers generating custom genomes that express as fermionic biodevices with controllable quantum properties – like entanglement.
Meaning…a cluster of synthetic neurons designed to translate between languages (yeah, I […]
…sooner than I expected.
Today smokestacks, tomorrow bronchii: Progress in creating artificial virus.
I’m just sayin’…
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