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Homo Syntheticus: The world beyond GNR
In the Fall/Winter 2003 Issue of CIO Magazine, MIT’s Negroponte writes extensively about his dystopiean vision of future developments in GNR – genetics, nanotechnology and robotics. What surprised me...
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Homo Syntheticus, Phase I: synthetic genomes arrive
…sooner than I expected. Today smokestacks, tomorrow bronchii: Progress in creating artificial virus. I’m just sayin’… Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012The post Homo Syntheticus, Phase I: synthetic...
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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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Artificial Life: Cell on a Chip
In Technology Review: Cell on a Chip, Lauren Gravitz reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, have created the first artificial cellular organelle. This “cell on a...
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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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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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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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