Chris Lewicki on Singularity 1 on 1: Stop Reading About It And Start Doing It!

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Chris Lewicki is the president and Chief Asteroid Miner at Planetary Resources - the first company that plans to locate and mine asteroids for water and precious metals. The company is backed by a number of billionaires and space enthusiasts such as director James Cameron, Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, X Prize founder Peter Diamandis and billionaire Ross Perot Jr., along with a number of other incredible minds. As Michio Kaku once put it: “You can’t go wrong if you put together a bunch of billionaires and NASA scientists.” And [...]

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Is The Singularity Happening Now?

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People have grossly misunderstood the Singularity if they think it is already happening or has happened. The Singularity is not a seamless merging of humans and technology, neither is it about mind-uploading. The Singularity is an intelligence explosion, we are considering utterly colossal intelligence. I was inspired to clarify what the Singularity is because wearable computing pioneer Thad Starner, who is also the technical manager of Google Glass, recently stated: “I would argue that we’re currently living the singularity, where the tool stops and the mind [...]

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Peter Diamandis at OCE Discovery: Technology is a Resource Liberating Force

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This year’s OCE Discovery conference in Toronto was the first of five consequent events that I am attending within the next 3 weeks. The other four are the just finished Subtle Technologies Festival and the upcoming Global Future 2045 Congress in NY City, the ISTAS13 Conference and the Pros and Cons of Drones in Toronto. Out of the first two events the highlight for me was Peter Diamandis‘ keynote speech at the OCE Discovery conference. It is for this reason that I wanted to share it [...]

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If Death Is Natural Then Why Are Some Immortal?

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Woody Alen famously quipped that he doesn’t want to accomplish immortality through his work but through not dying. But we are often told that death is natural. Much of the time the statement is left hanging without support as if it is totally obvious. Occasionally, someone will go the extra mile by repeating the (Buddhist?!) mantra that everything and everyone born will die and become food and/or raw material for the next generation – the proverbial great circle of live. But the above claim is at [...]

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Singularity University Gets Featured on Bloomberg Brink

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Recently Bloomberg Brink visited Singularity University, where the world’s brightest minds convene to attack the world’s toughest challenges. SU acts as an incubator for companies that aim to fulfil the 10^9 challenge i.e. to improve the lives of a billion people within 10 years. Just some of the companies that have come out of Singularity University include Made in Space – which aims to eliminate the need for building massive amounts of spare parts for the space station by making a 3D printer that works in [...]

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Humanity is Dead as the Dodo

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There was this unique bird. It was endemic to a small island called Mauritius. It flourished there for thousands of years. It then went extinct. It was called the Dodo. There was this some-what intelligent species. It was endemic to a small blue planet called Earth. It flourished there for a couple hundred thousand years. It then went extinct. It was called homo sapiens… This is what history will say some time from now. “Why so dark and pessimistic?” you may ask. “On the contrary!” I would [...]

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Young At Heart: Making Old Hearts Young Again

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A group of scientists from Harvard has managed to turn back time in the heart of a mouse. The researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have identified a blood protein they say can reverse the aging process in mouse hearts. After introducing the protein into the hearts of old mice, the scientists say they saw the organs ‘grow younger’ before their eyes, results that could eventually help in the treatment of human heart disease and give new meaning to “young at heart”. Original story by [...]

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