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Homo Syntheticus, Addendum B: DNA/nanotube transistors
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...
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Homo Syntheticus: blueprints
The Federation of American Scientists’ Digital Human project is laying the groundwork for designing artificial organs of all types – check out this excerpt: Artificial Organs and Prostheses Computer...
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Homo Syntheticus: synthetic DNA from synthetic oligonucleotides
Not just a sci-fi fantasy… Generating a synthetic genome by whole genome assembly: φX174 bacteriophage from synthetic oligonucleotides Abstract We have improved upon the methodology and dramatically...
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The Singularity Summit 2009: Coming to NYC in October!
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...
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Exocortical Cognition: Heads in the Cloud
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....
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Breaking News! Transhumans descend on NYC! Designs unknown!
Well, OK, that would be Transhumanists. And yes, we’ll be converging on NYC with grand designs, but there’s nothing evil afoot. We’ll be here on May 14-15 2011 for the Transhumanism Meets Design...
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Interview | Dr. Ben Goertzel
Artificial General Intelligence, Transhumanism and Open Source Transhumanism Transhumanism Meets Design Conference New York City| 14-15 May 2011 Dr. Ben Goertzel. Photo courtesy of Neural Imprints Dr....
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The Singularity is Near(er)
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...
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Randal Koene | A Window of Opportunity
Dr. Randal Koene, neuroscientist and neuroengineer, is a preeminent theorist and developer focused on Substrate Independent Minds, or SIM - a field of research which seeks to understand the brain and...
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Transhumans: Beyond a social species?
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...
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The world according to Itskov: Futurists convene at GF2045
As many Phys.org readers undoubtedly know, Einstein famously said that imagination is more important than knowledge – but there’s more to it. The full quote reads: I believe in intuition and...
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The Zeitgeist of Change
When envisioning, planning for or attempting to create a future scenario, an often-overlooked problem is ignoring the Zeitgeist – the dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture...
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