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02 Jun 09

POLL: Is A Terminator Scenario Possible? | h+ Magazine

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Design Future Singularity

01 May 09

Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up - Times Online

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Singularity Internet

It will initially lead to computers being disrupted and going offline for
several minutes at a time. From 2012, however, PCs and laptops are likely to
operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an “unreliable toy”.
In America, telecoms companies are spending £40 billion a year upgrading
cables and supercomputers to increase capacity, while in Britain proposals
to replace copper cabling across part of the network with fibreoptic wires
would cost at least £5 billion.
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- Monthly traffic across the internet is running at about eight exabytes. A
  recent study by the University of Minnesota estimated that traffic was
  growing by at least 60 per cent a year, although that did not take into
  account plans for greater internet access in China and India.

10 Dec 08

Study: Digital universe and its impact bigger than we thought

Bits Bytes, Atoms and Quantums

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Information Singularity entropy

by 2011, the amount of electronic data created and stored will grow to 10 times the 180 exabytes that existed in 2006, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of almost 60%.
by 2023 the number of stored bits will surpass Avogadro's number, which is the number of carbon atoms in 12 grams, or 602,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6.022 x 10^23).
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- The study, "The Diverse and Exploding
  Digital Universe," also found that the rate at which electronic containers for that data — files, images, packets and tag contents — is growing 50% faster than the data itself

01 Nov 08

Mummy, that robot is making faces at me - tech - 29 October 2008 - New Scientist Tech

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Robot Human Singularity

Robotics engineers at the University of Bristol, UK, have been grimacing a lot recently, thanks to their copycat robotic head, Jules, which can mimic the facial expressions and lip movements of a human being.

'Digital dark age' may doom some data

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Singularity Data Destination

The framed photograph will inevitably fade and yellow over time, but the digital photo file may be unreadable to future computers – an unintended consequence of our rapidly digitizing world that may ultimately lead to a "digital dark age," says Jerome P. McDonough, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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- To avoid a digital dark age, McDonough says that we need to figure out the best way to keep valuable data alive and accessible by using a multi-prong approach of migrating data to new formats, devising methods of getting old software to work on existing platforms, using open-source file formats and software, and creating data that's "media-independent."
- McDonough cites Brazil, the Netherlands and Norway as examples of countries that have mandated the use of non-proprietary file formats for government business.

31 Oct 08

Next Big Future: Avogadro Scale Computing : digging into Gernshenfeld's Presentation from the Singularity Summit

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Singularity Brain Roadmap

12 Oct 08

Leading geneticist Steve Jones says human evolution is over

The time for social evolution

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Evolution Singularity

This is because cell divisions in males increase with age. “Every time there
is a cell division, there is a chance of a mistake, a mutation, an error,”
he said. “For a 29-year old father [the mean age of reproduction in the
West] there are around 300 divisions between the sperm that made him and the
one he passes on – each one with an opportunity to make mistakes.
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- it amazes me that the people who believe in creatonism will not question it in any way,however they will come out with ludicrous statements against evolution that they have been spoon fed by some creatonist pseudo-scientist without doing any research into evolution themselves...open your eyes people

23 Sep 08

IEEE Spectrum: Singular Simplicity

Hype?

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Singularity

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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Book Future Singularity Brain

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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- The rest of the Year Million authors are keener to explore posthuman, extraterrestrial futures that are far removed from the cosy colonialism of Star Trek,
- Thus transformed, this smart hypothetical material will be assembled into Matrioshka brains, or M-brains. These are the current incarnation of Dyson shells, first described in detail by Freeman Dyson in 1959, which are built round a star to collect all its radiant energy.
- Earth escapes the attentions of these 'matter miners' for sentimental reasons. But nowhere else is safe. The stripped-down Darwinism shaping these essays means that more is better. The M-brains send out not starships but seeds, which are efficient and encode the ability to bootstrap new nano-manufacturing capacity on any world that happens to be suitable. Minds can then take up residence, either downloaded from the seed or transmitted through the, ahem, 'Universenet'.
- These are not futures of quiet contemplation. Rudy Rucker's engaging vision of an era when evolved intelligence will tap into the quantum computation of the cosmos to let us "commune with the souls of stones" is a startling exception.

03 Aug 08

理论的终结：数据洪流让科学方法变得过时 - 译言翻译

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科学理论 Singularity

谷歌的奠基哲学就是“我们不知道为什么这张网页比那张网页好”：只要引入链接的统计数据说明它好就行了，并不需要语义上或者是因果关系的分析。这就是谷歌不需要掌握一门语言就能翻译的原因（只要给以合适的文集数据，对于谷歌来说，把外星语（原文是Klingon，克林贡语）翻译成波斯语就和把法语翻译成德语一样容易）。这也是谷歌能在没有任何知识、对广告内容没有任何了解的情况下，能把广告和内容融合得这么好的原因。
现在，生物学也向同样的方向发展。我们在学校所教的“显性和隐形基因严格遵循孟德尔法则”的模型已被证明是比牛顿定律更简单的对事实的描述。基因蛋白质交感（gene-protein interactions ）和其他实验胚胎学的发现已经动摇了“DNA就是命数“的看法，甚至引入了“环境可以影响遗传特性”这些曾经在基因学上被认定为不可能的事情。简而言之，我们对生物学学得越透彻，我们发现自己离能解释生物的模型越远。
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- J. Craig Venter的鸟枪基因序列。有了高速序列器（sequencers）和超级计算机来解析它们产生的统计数据， Venter从单细胞体到整个生态系统都进行测序。在2003年，他开始海洋生物的测序，重溯COOK船长的旅行。在2005他开始对空气中的生物测序。他发现了上千种未知细菌和其他生命形式。