March 2010

Peter Diamandis: the Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It Yourself

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This is another amazing video presentation from Singularity University: Peter Diamandis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Singularity University, discusses the best way to predict the future, and shares his personal philosophies on innovation and the commercial space industry. Flimed at Singularity University’s Executive Program, March 2010. Related articles by Zemanta At Singularity University, blowing minds and taking meetings (news.cnet.com)

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Aubrey de Grey: In Pursuit of Longevity

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Here is another great must-see video of Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation. In this video Aubrey speaks about the future of regenerative medicine, life extension and his most controversial concept of LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity). This video was filmed during the 2009 Graduate Summer Program at Singularity University. Related articles by Zemanta To Age or Not to Age documentary (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com) Do you want to live forever? (the full documentary) (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com) Top 10 Singularitarians of All Time (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com) The Clinic: How to live longer (cnn.com) Immortality a tantalizing, frightening possibility (thestar.com) New Documentary on the End to Aging Premiers Feb 11th (Video) (singularityhub.com) Anti-aging talk: Getting old or just getting started? (scientificamerican.com)

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Douglas Adams on Parrots, the Universe and Everything

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Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares hilarious accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world’s creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity. Enjoy! Related articles by Zemanta Douglas Adams lecture (boingboing.net) We Are Here: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com)

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Aubrey de Grey at the Minx Mandate

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Just in case you missed it — here is a funny interview with Aubrey de Grey at the Minx Mandate:

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Space Junk Collector: enter CubeSail

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There are over 5,000 tons of scattered space junk floating around in orbit above the Earth’s atmosphere. Those debris pose a serious hazard to the growing number of manned and non-manned  space missions and cost substantial amount of money and resources to identify, track and classify. Thus, dealing with space junk and cleaning up Earth’s orbit from it, is the smart thing to do both in terms of space-flight safety and in terms of economizing scarce space resources. UK researchers have designed a concept satellite that could potentially collect and drag space junk debris out of orbit. The team plans to launch a demonstration of their “CubeSail” next year and test the principles it is designed on. In essence, CubeSail is a 3kg (6.6lb), 10cm x 10cm x 30cm (4in x 4in x 12in) nanosatellite cube that deploys a thin, [...]

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Smart Clothes

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On the heels of the Smart Exercise Machines video here is another one on smart clothes: Imagine a dress that charges your iPod, changes color on a whim and will someday even monitor your vital signs. Researchers developing “smart cotton” say their nano-particle fabric will do all that and more. From Reuters News: Nano Dress: Fashion meets Function Related articles by Zemanta Cornell Professor Develops Cotton Fabric That Charges Your Electronics (huffingtonpost.com) Powering Up Electronics With Cotton Fabric? (treehugger.com) Cotton is the fabric of your lights…your iPod…your MP3 player…your cell phone (scienceblog.com) Smart Underwear (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com) Smart Exercise Machines (singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com)

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Smart Exercise Machines

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A funny “mock news” video showing off Intel’s latest chips in the next generation of smart exercise machines as only some of the devices that will eventually be connected to the net. While the video is most definitely a joke the point that it makes is rather serious. The question is: Is there anything that will not eventually have chips inside of it? The answer, of course, is: NO, there is isn’t! Eventually, not only all machines but all biological organisms will have one kind of chip or another embedded in them.

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What is Collective Intelligence?

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A 5 min video presentation on the meaning and importance of collective intelligence from Ideas Lab’s YouTube Channel of MIT’s Thomas Malone. Related articles by Zemanta Forget IQ, Collective Intelligence is the New Measure of Smart (video) (singularityhub.com)

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