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"How far will technology advance in 20, 30, even 50 years from now? How will it affect our lives? Here are some technologies and scenarios predicted by science fiction writers, futurists, technology experts, me and you."
Yet, the chances are that our own descendants will ask the same question, with the same incomprehension, about some of our practices today.
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We must adjust to our unparalleled ability to shape the world's evolution
Yet even as we are acquiring ever more extraordinary knowledge, we are storing it in ever more fragile and ephemeral forms. If our civilisation runs into trouble, like all others before it, how much would survive? - tech - 02 February 2010 - New Scientist
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This edition of the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook
coincides with both the start of the new millennium and the 25th
Anniversary of the AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology
Policy. In recognition of these events, it takes both a retrospective and prospective look at S&T policy, and examines the mutual impacts of technology and society.
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Wired's fundamental mission is to be one such setting: a forum for new ideas and arguments, frequently celebrating the revolutions occurring in science and technology, but never afraid to explore any troubling implications as well. Obviously, we don't have all the answers, but we do know some of the best and most important questions. As the future rushes up to meet us, we intend to keep asking them. (Wired 8.07)
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Response to Bill Joy
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Molecular biologist Lee Silver says that while in theory it would be possible to attack males via the Y-chromosome, it now seems we share too much DNA for all women or any one race to be at risk.
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In practice, scientists still haven't figured out how to get artificial nanostructures to self-clone.
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"
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MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning? (Video on TED.com)
The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
"A couple of weeks ago, Nature News published an article titled ‘Making babies: the next 30 years‘. It interviews a number of specialists in human reproductive technologies and outlines the predictions that they think are likely to arise in the next few decades. I’ve been waiting until I have some spare time to go through it, and now I have. This gives me the opportunity to also comment on other blogs who picked up this story." « Human Enhancement and Biopolitics
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"From neuroscience to Nietzsche. A sobering look at how man may perceive himself in the future, particularly as ideas about genetic predeterminism takes the place of dying Darwinism." by Tom Wolfe
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The present moment resembles that moment in the Middle Ages when the Catholic Church forbade the dissection of human bodies, for fear that what was discovered inside might cast doubt on the Christian doctrine that God created man in his own image.
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The elders, such as Wilson himself and Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life , and Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker , insist that there is nothing to fear from the truth, from the ultimate extension of Darwin's dangerous idea. They present elegant arguments as to why neuroscience should in no way diminish the richness of life, the magic of art, or the righteousness of political causes, including, if one need edit, political correctness at Harvard or Tufts, where Dennett is Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, or Oxford, where Dawkins is something called Professor of Public Understanding of Science. (Dennett and Dawkins, every bit as much as Wilson, are earnestly, feverishly, politically correct.) Despite their best efforts, however, neuroscience is not rippling out into the public on waves of scholarly reassurance. But rippling out it is, rapidly. The conclusion people out beyond the laboratory walls are drawing is: The fix is in! We're all hardwired! That, and: Don't blame me! I'm wired wrong!
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"From Silicon Valley via Aspen, Bill Joy wants to call the police. On science. On technology. On the industry that made him rich. The Left is OverJoyed." Originally published in The American Spectator, March 2001. Published on KurzweilAI.net July 25, 2001.
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Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
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"I want to make it possible to think more rationally about big picture questions."
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"The wetware that gives rise to consciousness is far too complex to be replicated in a computer anytime soon" (John Horgan, IEEE Spectrum)
"Dr. Kurzweil has other graphs showing a century of exponential growth in the number of patents issued, the spread of telephones, the money spent on education. One graph of technological changes goes back millions of years, starting with stone tools and accelerating through the development of agriculture, writing, the Industrial Revolution and computers. (For details, see nytimes.com/tierneylab.)
Now, he sees biology, medicine, energy and other fields being revolutionized by information technology. His graphs already show the beginning of exponential progress in nanotechnology, in the ease of gene sequencing, in the resolution of brain scans. With these new tools, he says, by the 2020s we’ll be adding computers to our brains and building machines as smart as ourselves. " (John Tierney, NYTimes.com)
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Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software
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Law of Accelerating Returns
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