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25 Mar 09
The Next 1,000 Years by Dr. Bruce Goldberg
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Solar power will be incorporated into everyday life in the 22nd century. The lifespan of the average adult will be increased to over 90 years.
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It is during the 25th century that we finally control the weather. Androids are used to perform all menial tasks. A major cold fusion war
reduces the world's population to less than a billion people.
06 Feb 09
Teleporter sends ions on long-distance journey - physics-math - 03 February 2009 - New Scientist
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Photons cannot carry quantum states over long distances along an optical fibre without the states being destroyed. The promise of this new process is that it could form the basis of a "quantum repeater" that will enable quantum communication over almost any distance: ion teleporters placed at regular intervals along a fibre could briefly store quantum states before sending them on their way, so no single photon has to travel too far.
19 Nov 08
悲观的人是可耻的 | 雙葉－維艱維難
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我不是个非常乐观的人，也曾抑郁的想自杀。但我现在认为，我们正处于一个伟大的时代，连岳那句“在中国现阶段，悲观主义是不道德的事”说出了我的心声。
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我曾经不止一次跟朋友说，这是个产生伟大人物的时代，只要我们去努力，为什么不能是你，不能是我？
17 Nov 08
Futurist Top Ten for 2009 and Beyond
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1. Everything you say and do will be
recorded by 2030. By the late 2010s, ubiquitous, unseen nanodevices
will provide seamless communication and surveillance among all people
everywhere. Humans will have nanoimplants, facilitating interaction in
an omnipresent network. Everyone will have a unique Internet Protocol
(IP) address. Since nano storage capacity is almost limitless, all
conversation and activity will be recorded and recoverable. -Gene
Stephens, "Cybercrime in the Year 2025," July-Aug 2008, p. 34
22 Oct 08
Self-Assembled Organic Circuits
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In the past, others have used similar self-assembly tricks to make organic transistors, but the new method is much simpler. Moreover, researchers have been unable to accurately and reliably replicate self-assembled devices until now. "You need every transistor to be working in order for the circuit to work," says John Kymissis, an electrical-engineering professor at Columbia University. "Here, there are hundreds of transistors, all of which work. The yield is extremely good for complicated circuits."
28 Aug 08
The China Delusion
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"Change in China will arrive on its own terms and in keeping with its own history and its own traditions," the president predicted. He pronounced, "Yet change will arrive."
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Over the past decade, China's economic and military strength has expanded with startling rapidity and presents a profound and unsettling change in the balance of global power and influence. Yet, despite China's signal disinterest in human rights (either for its own people or anywhere else), its equanimity toward nuclear proliferation, its insouciance with environmental degradation, and its border harassment of neighbors from Japan to India, from the South China Sea to Bhutan, and (of course) Taiwan, our leaders appear more comfortable facilitating its leadership than challenging it. Perhaps, they calculate that China has simply become too big to do otherwise. That calculation is not worthy of our ideals and represents an error of epochal proportions.
21 Aug 08
Polygamy is the key to a long life - being-human - 19 August 2008 - New Scientist
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After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous nations, says Virpi Lummaa, an ecologist at the University of Sheffield, UK.
13 Aug 08
Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge
-Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge
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A million years, or 40,000 generations, is a long time — but not that long on a cosmic timescale. As Broderick puts it, the number is an emblem of a remote future.
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14 Jun 08
Future Positive : Front Page
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he concept of the "order" of information is important here, as it is not the same as the opposite of disorder. If disorder represents a random sequence of events, then the opposite of disorder should imply "not random." Information is a sequence of data that is meaningful in a process, such as the DNA code of an organism, or the bits in a computer program. Noise, on the other hand, is a random sequence. Neither noise nor information is predictable. Noise is inherently unpredictable, but carries no information. Information, however, is also unpredictable. If we can predict future data from past data, then that future data stops being information. We might consider an alternating pattern ("0101010. . . .") to be orderly, but it carries no information (beyond the first couple of bits).
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but we have not achieved a deeper level of order
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12 Apr 08
Why China is the REAL master of the universe | the Daily Mail
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The boys in blue: Chinese security men escorting the Olympic torch on the streets of London last weekend. Many were shocked by their heavy-handed tactics
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