there is no dispute that fossil fuels are finite. it took millions upon millions of years to give us the oil reserves we have today. and we arent exactly replenishing the oil supply unless we halt all life on this fine planet of hours including mankind break down into our carbon and hydrogen components over millions upon millions of years in order to form oil. then we can all......
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the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn unlearn and relearn. alvin toffler jeg snublet over alvin toffler i 1990. da hadde nettopp gitt ut boken powershift og jeg var dypt fascinert av tankene hans. jeg leste rimelig umiddelbart hans the third wave og ikke minst future shock . future shock kom ut i 1973 og tofflers t......
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aerogel holds 15 entries in the guinness book of records more than any other material. sometimes called frozen smoke aerogel is made by the supercritical drying of liquid gels of alumina chromia tin oxide or carbon. its 99.8 empty space which makes it look semitransparent. check out the rest......
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lots of people escape the world through the internet some with games perhaps web environments like second life but whats happened to virtual reality that promised so much so many years ago. from what i understand the only thing really holding things back is the cost. one thing that i would love to see is sport vr. imagine if you could don a suit and be your favorite all black or soccer......
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i suppose the basic intuition that i have about it is very simply this is a world in which there is a possibility of things going extraordinarily well or extraordinarily badly where both the good things and the bad things are bigger than people think. if you have a bell curve distribution of possible futures for the world the tails on that bell curve are much fatter than people think. there ......
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materiales que parecen de ficcian pero son reales y otros que aparecen en la ciencia ficcian. esta entrada es una invitacian. os pido que propongais yo votais aquellos materiales reales que sin embargo podraan haber salido de una historia de ciencia ficcian. y quizas sea oportuno daros una pequeaa explicacian de como decida escribir una entrada tan peculiar. a pesar de sonar un ......
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is the real clash of civilizations not really about civilization at all but the past and future since the world wars our species has been repeatedly confronted with the horrible visage of our increasingly godlike power. it grins at all of us from behind the emaciated ribs of starved jews cambodians and darfurians with the glare of hiroshima shimmering across its jagged teeth. now what be......
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the future is not a story . if i were in charge of a futurist seminar one of the first things i would probably do is discourage anyone from mentioning any fictional story whatsoever. i do believe that fiction does have something to teach us about future possibilities but the bias towards interesting stories is so overwhelmingly strong that most casual thinking about the future is thoroughl.....
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like many other blogsa we here at biomedicine on display ahave a long list ofap otentially useful life science and healthmedical blog linksall those sites which together constitute the hypertextual inspiration base foraour web presence. it would be great if these could be visualised as a blogroll cloud like a tag cloud or a category cloud. so far i havent se......
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heard this great lecture audio transcript by steve omohundru from the singularity summit 2007 in it conversations. heres a partial mindmap summary of it. i found it extremely enlightening. steve omohundro on the nature of selfimproving ai company selfaware systems what is going to be like extremely unpredictable if you inderstand the current versio......
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the problem of evil. theologians and philosophers couldnt have found a staler term to categorize the spiritual and intellectual catastrophe that is the question where was god where was god during deir ezzor auschwitz darfur and september 11th where is god when everyday people suffer and die from the most banal of causes. a nonstick frying......
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a belief in the power and imminence of the drexlerian vision of radical nanotechnology is part of the beliefpackage of adherents of the view that an acceleration of technology linked particularly with the development of a recursively selfimproving superhuman artificial intelligence will shortly lead to a moment of ineffably rapid technological and societal change the singularity. so it......
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its a couple of weeks since my article in the current edition of ieee spectrum magazine the singularity special rupturing the nanotech rapture appeared and its generated a certain amount of discussion on the nanotech blogs. dexter johnson on tech talk ieee spectrums own blog observes that in all its a deftly diplomatic......
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are we imminently facing the singularity this is the hypothesised moment of technological transcendence in the concept introduced by mathematician and science fiction writer vernor vinge when accelerating technological change leads to a recursively selfimproving artificial intelligence of superhuman capabilities with literally unknowable and ineffable consequences. the most vocal propon......
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.... mostsignificant halfword of areg and set the leastsignificant the movh instruction before shifting. 16th bit is already 1 in the value of absolute httpwww .accelerat ingfuture. commichae lblogp 742 in his 1986 book the engines of creation k eric drexler set down the longterm aim of nanotechnology to create an assembler a microscopic device a robot that could construct yet smal...
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...17ve been writing my compiler in ruby series and including a lot of x86 assembler i figured id see how much or little work adding a syntax highlighter for httpwww .accelerat ingfuture. commichae lblogp 742 in his 1986 book the engines of creation k eric drexler set down the longterm aim of nanotechnology to create an assembler a microscopic device a robot that could construct yet...
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every once in a blue moon ill participate in a blogmeme. blink and youll miss it right back to longevity science and advocacy the next day. this is a small one put forward by michael graham richard here are 7 questions that i would like to ask to the following people michael anissimov jamais cascio tom mccabe george dvorsky steven smithee randall parker and......
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here are 7 questions that i would like to ask to the following people michael anissimov jamais cascio tom mccabe george dvorsky steven smithee randall parker and rea son of fight aging . guys no girls in my blogroll sadly you dont have to reply if you dont feel like it but if you want to just post the answers on your blog i8217......
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a few months ago i discovered futures in biotech a podcast that explores the world of genetics cloning protein folding genome mapping and more by marc pelletier. the episode that first caught my attention was an interview with dr. vijay s. pande of foldinghome . in fact i might have found futures in biotech via a link on the foldinghome blog . anyway i had a look at th......
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