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Transhumanism has been defined by Humanity+ as the intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities, as well as the study of the ramifications, promises, […]
In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and carts our legs, and fire our environment, we’re now investigating and manipulating the fabric of that reality – including the very components of life […]
Technological evolution can be defined as the ongoing projection of our sensorimotor cortex through augmentation of our physicality – i.e., devices that enhance our arms, legs, eyes, ears, and so on. It’s clear that the next (and at least penultimate) frontier is our emerging ability to directly augment and extend our brain.
The current extension of […]
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…
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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 […]
In his New York Times article Smaller Computer Chips Built Using DNA as Template, Kenneth Chang wrote:
In an advance that might provide a practical method for making molecular-size circuits, the smallest possible, scientists in Israel used strands of DNA, the computer code of life, to create tiny transistors that can literally build […]
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’…
In the Fall/Winter 2003 Issue of CIO Magazine, MIT’s Negroponte writes extensively about his dystopiean vision of future developments in GNR – genetics, nanotechnology and robotics. What surprised me is what he doesn’t mention – in fact, what I’ve yet to find explicitly published anywhere.
Homo Syntheticus. The ultimate GNR convergence. The species destined to supplant […]
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