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May 6, 2018
The Post-Human Generation–An Engineered Evolution
Posted by Steve Nichols in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience
On a recent BBC World Service program (News Hour Extra, 12.18.15), a group of space scientists were gathered to discuss these and other aspects of the post-human era. “What about the human soul”, the moderator asked, wondering whether or not these post-humans would still be human. None of the participants were particularly troubled by the question, since they all had assumed that the soul was no more than the particular configurations of DNA which resulted in varying degre…es of insight, intelligence, creativity, and sensitivity. Post-humans will be no different, they all agreed. Only their individual genomes will have been altered to produce a very different human reality – in other words a different human soul.
Once the human genome was completely sequenced; once efforts to recombine DNA had become a reality; and once a mind-computer interface had been realized, there was never any doubt that a post-human era was coming.
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May 3, 2018
The Energy Department is Investing $30 Million in Quantum Research
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, quantum physics
May 2, 2018
Creativity Is The Skill Of The Future
Posted by Ian Hale in categories: computing, futurism
So, since technology is only going to advance, the question is: what will be the most coveted skill of the future? In my opinion, it is creativity. Ultimately a computer lacks imagination or creativity to dream up a vision for the future. It lacks the emotional competent that a human being has. Thus, creativity will be the skill of the future.
May 2, 2018
Can We Train a Computer to Read Your Mind?
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: computing, transportation
May 2, 2018
Nobody knows how far off useful quantum computers are: Here’s why
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, quantum physics
The recent breakthroughs in quantum physics expand on work down nearly two decades ago. So how far away are useful quantum computers?
May 2, 2018
Singularity Hypotheses Analysis
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: computing, neuroscience, physics, singularity, transhumanism
Publication numbers are in: 55 thousand downloads! 🎉😁🍾.
Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment offers authoritative, jargon-free essays and critical commentaries on accelerating technological progress and the notion of technological singularity. It focuses on conjectures about the intelligence explosion, transhumanism, and whole brain emulation. Recent years have seen a plethora of forecasts about the profound, disruptive impact that is likely to result from further progress in these areas. Many commentators however doubt the scientific rigor of these forecasts, rejecting them as speculative and unfounded. We therefore invited prominent computer scientists, physicists, philosophers, biologists, economists and other thinkers to assess the singularity hypotheses. Their contributions go beyond speculation, providing deep insights into the main issues and a balanced picture of the debate.
May 1, 2018
If quantum computers threaten blockchains, quantum blockchains could be the defense
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bitcoin, business, computing, encryption, quantum physics
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If quantum computers threaten blockchains, quantum blockchains could be the defense.
Quantum computers could break the cryptography that conventional blockchains rely on. Now physicists say a way of entangling the present with the past could foil this type of attack.
ALON — Transparent Aluminum — is a ceramic composed of Aluminium, Oxygen and Nitrogen. Transparent Aluminum, was once pure science fiction, a technical term used in a Star Trek Movie from the 80’s.
In the movie Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home, Captain Kirk and his team, go back in time to acquire 2 whales from the past and transport them back to the future. Scotty needed some materials to make a holding tank for whales on his ship, but had no money to pay for the materials.
May 1, 2018
A new physics discovery could change the game for quantum computing
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: computing, mathematics, particle physics, quantum physics
From tunneling through impenetrable barriers to being in two places at the same time, the quantum world of atoms and particles is famously bizarre. Yet the strange properties of quantum mechanics are not mathematical quirks—they are real effects that have been seen in laboratories over and over.
One of the most iconic features of quantum mechanics is “entanglement”—describing particles that are mysteriously linked regardless of how far away from each other they are. Now three independent European research groups have managed to entangle not just a pair of particles, but separated clouds of thousands of atoms. They’ve also found a way to harness their technological potential.
When particles are entangled they share properties in a way that makes them dependent on each other, even when they are separated by large distances. Einstein famously called entanglement “spooky action at a distance,” as altering one particle in an entangled pair affects its twin instantaneously—no matter how far away it is.
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