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Dunbar’s Number: Why We Can’t Have More Than 150 Friends
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2012: Toward A Positive Human Future
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“Decrease suffering. Reduce misery. Increase well-being. Build flourishing.” – Martin Seligman
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LiFi – The Internet of Light
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The World is Not As We See It
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“We’re behind the eight-ball as it were, if we think the world looks like how we see it. There’s much more information there and other animals see it much differently.” – Roger Hanlon
Original Sci-Fri embed code didn’t work here for some reason.
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Can We Talk? Let’s Talk About Evolution.
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Huntsville, The “Mighty Eagle” has Landed. NASA Robotic Lander Development Project.
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NASA successfully completed the final flight in a series of tests of a new robotic lander prototype at the Redstone Test Center’s propulsion test facility on the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. The team steadily increased the lander’s flight profile, starting by hovering the lander — dubbed Mighty Eagle — at 3 feet, then 30 feet and finally a record 100-foot flight test.
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Future Shock: A Primer from the Modern Father of Futuretechture
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/TD0530VWe2g/588
Totally embarrassed by the depiction of exhuberant gleaming youth in this clip, with whom I clearly identified too strongly at far too impressionable an age, some 40 years ago. Wonder how I got "this way?" By believing what Toffler explained and yet still being subjected to the very vestigial technium / techonomy that he describes, herein, a lifetime ago. It was like, "Here's everything that's most broken about the world, go do something to try and help fix it." Consider this as Exhibit A for the argument that The Singularity Already Happened and Is In The Process of Happening; marking the year 2029 more like the time at which a critical mass of 8 billion humans will look back, defining that new default reality.
Toffler: "All of us think about the future, but the futurist devotes more time to thinking about the long term future, not just what’s going to happen next." "We go around the world talking to people who are, in fact, MAKING the future. So this is not some mystical exercise in Nostradamus style prediction, but an attempt to find out who are the people that are changing, or will be changing our lives in the years and decades ahead." "It occured to us that when you go to a foriegn culture, you’re bombarded by strange cues, by visual, sound and other inputs that may be different from the ones in your own culture and that are hard to understand and some people get truly disoriented, and upset, and sociologist and anthropologists call it culture shock." "What happens, if a new environment comes to you, where you are, and comes to you rapidly? So that you don’t understand IT’S inputs, and it’s CUES? And the answer to use was, if you can have culture shock by relocating to another location in space; you could have Future Shock by, in effect, relocating in time. A future comes toward you, that you don’t understand." "You also hear people than ever complaining about being time harrassed, time squeezed, time over-worked, too many hours, and I think everybody feels this pressure. You’re under pressure usually to make more and more decisions in shorter and shorter intervals of time." "And guess what? There’s a limit beyond which we don’t make good decisions. If we push ourselves to decide quickly about things that are terribly complex, the chance are, we’ll make some serious mistakes; and we do. The hope was, computers will solve this problem." "The computer does simplify decision making, but it complexifies everything else, so you have to make more complex decisions, anyway. The computer as a source of complexity, as well as a machine for dealing with complexity has not yet been fully understood." "Technology and Social Change are all interrelated. The industrial revolution changed, not just the technologies of production, it meant that people stopped being peasants, they became urban industrial people. Totally different value systems, totally different forms of social organization, new institutions. They invented department stores. They invented post offices. Social inventions, not just technological inventions." Ed. Note: don’t miss "the miracle of HIGH SPEED wire communication is commonplace today, lift a telephone receiver and the world is at your fingertips." at 5:48. LOL! "It’s the civilization that gave rise to the world that most of us watching this were born into. The world of mass production, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass entertainment, mass recreation, and in some countries, Weapons of Mass Destruction." (Hipster Hints: he’s not talking about Iran or Iraq, homies.) "In that kind of a world, conformity is idealized; you are supposed to be like everyone else; and that is because it is economically advantageous for that system to produce people who are prepared to spend their lives doing work on the predicate; basically unthinking work, on assembly lines; or in offices built to operate like assembly lines. That product of the industrial revolution is not just an economy, it’s a way of life." Oh, we’re sooo much smarter now, right? :-) LOLCATSROTFLXPALADOCIOUS!
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Does Matter Emerge from Music? Are Individual Human Minds Constituent to a Single Global Supraorganism?
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/jFYKIpThVpg/544
From The Music Instinct: Science and Song (2009, PBS). "Music is written into our very being."
"In a sense what we’re saying is that if string theory is correct, at the heart of matter is music." "One of the recent developments in the last few years is that we are moving from a study of the individual brain into the study of a society of brains and music serves to synchronize our brain states."
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Approaching the Human Longevity Escape Velocity
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John James Audubon: The Birds of America
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“I marvel at nature when dawn presents her, in richest, purest array. Then, I am full of desire to comprehend all that I see.” — John James Audubon
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DIY Neuroscience – BackyardBrains.com – Tim Marzullo at HackerDojo
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Remote Control Life. Presentation of the Spiker box and live demonstration of DIY remote controlled cockroaches! The kids loved it!
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Beyond Human: The Cyborg Mind
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Graphene: Strongest Material Known to Man
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Sixth Sense, 2 Years Later
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Anyone have status updates to post? Thanks!
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Deborah Gordon Digs Ants
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A New Kind of Science – Stephen Wolfram
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“Back in 1981, I had the idea that, perhaps, just as I’d been able to find primitives for computations people want to do, I might somehow also be able to find primitives for what nature does. The crucial thing that I realized is that those primitives don’t have to be based only on traditional mathematical constructs. I mean, if one’s going to be able to do theoretical science, one has to assume that nature follows some kind of definite rules. But why do those rules involve only the kinds of constructs that have been invented in human mathematics? Can’t the rules be somehow more general? Perhaps the kinds of rules that can be embodied in programs might actually be what nature is using.” — Stephen Wolfram
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The Singularity
The technological singularity is a theoretical future point which takes place during a period of accelerating change, at which everything goes completely insane. We're talking hyperintelligent machines, radical biological control, effective immortality, extreme mind-machine interfacing, space colonies, and nanobot-everything. It's going to be great, don't you miss it.
Vernor Vinge called this event "the Singularity" as an analogy between the breakdown of modern physics near a gravitational singularity and the drastic change in society he argues would occur following an intelligence explosion.
Ray Kurzweil maintains that the inevitability of a technological singularity is implied by a long-term pattern of accelerating change that generalizes Moore's Law to technologies predating the integrated circuit, and which he argues will continue to apply to other technologies not yet invented.
**The Singularity will not happen in 2014. Facebook will, however, prevent you from listing events earlier than five years in advance... **EDIT: Updated :-)
When: Tuesday, August 21, 2029, 12am-11:30pm Attendees: 47 Comments: 5
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Outsourcing Personal Memory: The Benefits and Challenges of Capturing Yourself Digitally
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Mendeley: Open Scientific Research in ra…
Mendeley: Open Scientific Research in rapid growth phase. Co-founder and director Jan Reichelt believes ‘putting openness, sharing and collaboration at the heart of research.’ is at the heart of the companies success and are on track to become the largest online research network in Spring 2010. It appears Mendeley have breathed new life into the way scientists undertake research and the information they now have access to will only enhance the productiveness of their work. With the database doubling in size every 10 weeks, it’s a clear sign of the value the network is indeed providing scientists by allowing them to connect and collaborate with others.
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iCANN on Internationalized Domain Names
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Interesting that at nearly the same time as this iCANN decision, Aunt Rosie the Wave Translation Robot may remove language barriers, further enabling all people everywhere to use their own native languages, yet communicate across all language divides.
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The Headless Terminators are Here
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The Headless Terminators Are Here
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They’re he-errrrre …
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Quantum Computing with an Electron Spin Ensemble Proposed to Make Hundreds of Qubits (via feedly)
Shared by @silverton: Think of this as a qubit amplifier; 'cuz single qubits ow vewy, vewy qwuiet. ;-) In no particular order (other than the fact that Brian's post here triggered the thought) blips (see Google Wave lexicon for full understanding of a 'blip') like this one remind me just how much I want to become a Brian Wang (bw of Next Big Future; this post), Martine Rothblatt, James Hughes, Deborah Gordon, Eliezer Yudkowski, Tara Hunt, Nick Bostrom, Jill Bolte Taylor, Dewayne Hendricks, Amber Case, Todd Gailun, Jane McGonigal, Brad Fidler, Anne Corwin -- plus hundreds of others -- Collective Cyber Consciousness when I grow up. ;-)
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The physical setup of the quantum computer consists of a superconducting transmission line cavity coupled to an ensemble of electron spins and a transmon Cooper pair box. The cavity dimensions allow 100 billion electron spins to be coupled to the cavity mode, which could be used to make hundreds of physical qubits. Image copyright: J.H. Wesenberg, et al.Physics Review Letter A: UK and Denmark researchers propose to encode a register of quantum bits in different collective electron spin wave excitations in a solid medium. Coupling to spins is enabled by locating them in the vicinity of a superconducting transmission line cavity, and making use of their strong collective coupling to the quantized radiation field. The transformation between different spin waves is achieved by applying gradient magnetic fields across the sample, while a Cooper pair box, resonant with the cavity field, may be used to carry out one- and two-qubit gate operations.Phys org has coverageScientists have recently proposed a quantum computing scheme that uses an ensemble of about 100 billion electron spins. They show that hundreds of physical qubits can be made from these collective electron spin excitations.The system can also perform qubit encoding and provide one- and two-bit gates for quantum computing. In the setup, the electron spins are coupled to a superconducting transmission line cavity. In turn, this cavity is coupled to a transmon Cooper pair box that carries out the gate operations.“A single electron spin only interacts very weakly with its environment: this makes it a good quantum memory, except that it is very hard to initialize or read out,” Wesenberg explained to PhysOrg.com. “In the ensemble register we make use of the fact that the collective interaction between an ensemble of billions of spins and a microwave cavity is greatly enhanced by the so-called superradiant effect. This makes it possible to transfer a microwave photon (carrying a qubit), from the cavity to the spin ensemble in a few tens of nanoseconds compared to a significant fraction of a second for a single spin. Once the photon has been transferred to the ensemble, it lives as an delocalized excitation. “The state of the system is a quantum superposition of each spin being excited, that is, flipped relative to the very strong magnetic field that has been applied to the system. There is an infinite number of ways in which a single excitation can be superpositioned in this way, and these can be described in terms of spin waves. By applying a magnetic gradient pulse, we can transfer an excitation that lives as one kind of spin wave to another kind of spin wave.” Depending on the materials used, the system could achieve spin coherence times of up to tens of milliseconds, which could be used to build a solid-state device.“The immediate plan is to demonstrate experimentally that this works,” Wesenberg said. “First in the semi-classical setting (which is essentially electron spin resonance spectroscopy), and later in the quantum regime. Experiments to this end are underway at Yale and Oxford.”[extracted from Quantum Computing with an Electron Spin Ensemble Proposed to Make Hundreds of Qubits via feedly]
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Death Can Be Cured
http://improbable.com/2009/08/27/guardian-column-171/
Shared by @silverton: File under: Jaded Optimism.
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Jutting from almost every issue of a journal called Medical Hypotheses are articles that, in the editor’s opinion, may be wrong or wrong-headed. One is called Losing weight by defecating at night, another Why do gentlemen prefer blondes? These, and 98 other head-scratchers, each tinged with flecks of madness, genius, or cunning perversity, provide the raw material for a book called Death Can Be Cured. In the journal, this peppering of little, odd essays serves as both spice and provocation. Editor Bruce Charlton suspects that at least a few of them contain useful insights, and that each can stir up useful debates. Medical Hypotheses publishes clever guesses about medical mysteries. Most of the world’s several thousand other medical journals do, too. But Medical Hypotheses is unusual in that (1) it admits doing it and (2) it publishes nothing else. No “now we know the real story” medical case reports. No “thus it is proved” experimental results. Just hypotheses…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
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Microscopes zoom in on molecules at last (via feedly)
http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=11038
Shared by @silverton: Old news from last week, but still worth sharing. Hello, Diamond Mechano-Synthesis! The first image of a molecule has been achieved by IBM researchers using atomic force microscopy (AFM).
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They imaged the organic pentacene molecule, overcoming the problem of the probe sticking to the molecule (from electrostatic and van der Waals forces) by fixing a single carbon monoxide molecule to the end of the probe so that only one atom of relatively inactive oxygen came into contact with the pentacene.
The IBM researchers believe their technique may open the door to super-powerful computers whose components are built with precisely positioned atoms and molecules. (Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17699-microscopes-zoom-in-on-molecules-at-last.html) [extracted from Microscopes zoom in on molecules at last via feedly]
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bill giltner: I love when little kids show up big corporations with simple science class tests that result is million dollar lawsuits..
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Google Lunar X PRIZE contender Odyssey Moon Limited
Odyssey Moon intends to become the first private company to supply payload delivery services to the Moon in support of science, exploration and commerce.
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ISS Photosynth
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Meet Two of the Primary Contributing Architects of your Present and Future Local Earth Reality
It doesn't matter whether you've never heard of Eliezer or Jaron. It doesn't matter whether you agree with me about their relative memetic influence upon That Which Is in contemporary western technocratic society today, and That Which Is Emerging on the cusp of an accelerating, hybrid, augmented, extended intelligence explosion future. I just don't have the time right now to point to all the substantiating data that I believe supports the Subject Line's claim. You can find that all yourself if you care to; or you can find all kinds of ways to first support the claim, then debunk it. I don't care what you do with my flimsy, hopefully attention-hijacking claims; I only care that you watch and listen to this video below and then TRY TO FUCKING THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE SAYING. I'll be happy if I can get even one human neuron to fire in some productive direction other than obsessing over what's for dinner or who to fuck (or not) next. Are we reaching? Probably not. That's why this stream is first and foremost maintained for my own entertainment and archival reference. If you get something out of it, that's good for YOU; unless you send me money in exchange for this post, or for some random bullshit like powerpoint slides, a white paper, a spoken presentation, or other random artifact or behavioral compliance to your will to which you arbitrarily ascribe value. In every non-remunerated case, your edification as a proximate consequence of learning about this material here on this site, does pretty much nothing at all for me, right? You may have by now also guessed correctly that if I actually cared whether or not you easily understood what I'm writing; I'd have written less cryptically; but I don't care; which you likely also already deduced, inferred, or intuited. Enjoy.
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Calorie delusion: Why food labels are wrong
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Why do people laugh at creationists?
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A 30 part series in one embeddable player. Feel free to lift this code to embed in your own sites.
Please do vote to help balance skews from vote-bots. YouTube should really do a much better job of throttling 3 standard-deviation moves on such metrics. Legitimate big pops can be anticipated by content creators and account holders could temporarily disarm such circuit breakers when the situation merits.
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Open-mindedness
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“It’s not a virtue to be easily persuaded by people.”
Thank you for this great post, @mlanger!
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Ian McEwan Interview - Richard Dawkins
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