Nanotech Could Make Humans Immortal By 2040, Futurist Says - CIO Computerworld — In 30 or 40 years, we'll have microscopic machines traveling through our bodies, repairing damaged cells and organs, effectively wiping out diseases. The nanotechnology will also be used to back up our memories and personalities. In an interview with Computerworld , author and futurist Ray Kurzweil said that anyone alive come 2040 or 2050 could be close to immortal. The quickening advance of nanotechnology means that the human condition will shift into more of a collaboration of man and machine , as nanobots flow through human blood streams and eventually even replace biological blood, he added. That may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Kurzweil, a member of the Inventor's Hall of Fame and a recipient of the National Medal of Technology, says that research well underway today is leading to a time when a combination of nanotechnology and biotechnology will wipe out cancer, Alzheimer's disease , obesity and diabetes . Continue Reading
Google et les transhumanistes Ray Kurzweil, le "pape" du transhumanisme, a été embauché par Google comme ingénieur en chef pour faire du moteur de recherche la première intelligence artificielle de l'histoire. LE MONDE SCIENCE ET TECHNO | • Mis à jour le | Par Laurent Alexandre (Chirurgien urologue, Président de DNAVision) Le transhumanisme est encore quasi inconnu en France. Dans ce contexte, les transhumanistes soutiennent une vision radicale des droits de l'humain. L'homme du futur serait ainsi comme un site Web, à tout jamais une "version béta", c'est-à-dire un organisme-prototype voué à se perfectionner en continu. Aujourd'hui, Google est devenu l'un des principaux architectes de la révolution NBIC et soutient activement le transhumanisme, notamment en parrainant la Singularity University qui forme les spécialistes des NBIC. Google s'intéresse également au séquençage ADN au travers de sa filiale 23andMe, dirigée par la femme de Sergei Brin, le cofondateur de Google.
inversion vieillissement A technique to keep the tips of your chromosomes healthy could reverse tissue ageing. The work, which was done in mice, is yet more evidence of a causal link between chromosome length and age-related disease. Telomeres, the caps of DNA which protect the ends of chromosomes, shorten every time cells divide. But cells stop dividing and die when telomeres drop below a certain length – a normal part of ageing. The enzyme telomerase slows this degradation by adding new DNA to the ends of telomeres. Mariela Jaskelioff and her colleagues at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, engineered mice with short telomeres and inactive telomerase to see what would happen when they turned the enzyme back on. Four weeks after the team switched on the enzyme, they found that tissue had regenerated in several organs, new brain cells were developing and the mice were living longer. Journal reference: Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature09603 Topics: age
32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow - Interactive Feature Electric Clothes Physicists at Wake Forest University have developed a fabric that doubles as a spare outlet. When used to line your shirt — or even your pillowcase or office chair — it converts subtle differences in temperature across the span of the clothing (say, from your cuff to your armpit) into electricity. And because the different parts of your shirt can vary by about 10 degrees, you could power up your MP3 player just by sitting still. According to the fabric’s creator, David Carroll, a cellphone case lined with the material could boost the phone’s battery charge by 10 to 15 percent over eight hours, using the heat absorbed from your pants pocket. Richard Morgan Chris Nosenzo The New Coffee Soon, coffee isn’t going to taste like coffee — at least not the dark, ashy roasts we drink today. Analytical Undies Your spandex can now subtly nag you to work out. The Morning Multitasker Clean Hair, No Hands Tim WuAuthor of “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”
From Fermilab, a New Clue to Explain Human Existence? - NYTimes. In a mathematically perfect universe, we would be less than dead; we would never have existed. According to the basic precepts of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang and then immediately annihilated each other in a blaze of lethal energy, leaving a big fat goose egg with which to make stars, galaxies and us. And yet we exist, and physicists (among others) would dearly like to know why. Sifting data from collisions of protons and antiprotons at Fermilab’s Tevatron, which until last winter was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the team, known as the DZero collaboration, found that the fireballs produced pairs of the particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons, slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons. So the miniature universe inside the accelerator went from being neutral to being about 1 percent more matter than antimatter. Dr.
Transhumanisme H+, un symbole du transhumanisme. Le transhumanisme est un mouvement culturel et intellectuel international prônant l'usage des sciences et des techniques afin d'améliorer la condition humaine notamment par l'augmentation des capacités physiques et mentales des êtres humains. Les transhumanistes considèrent certains aspects de la condition humaine tels que le handicap, la souffrance, la maladie, le vieillissement ou la mort subis comme indésirables. Le transhumanisme partage de nombreux éléments avec l'humanisme, y compris le respect de la raison et de la science, une volonté de progresser et une valorisation de l'existence humaine (ou transhumaine). Le terme « transhumanisme » est symbolisé par « H+ » (anciennement « >H »[3]) et est souvent employé comme synonyme d'« amélioration humaine ». Pour résumer la FAQ transhumaniste d'Humanity+ développée dans les années 1990, un des documents transhumanistes les plus reconnus, le transhumanisme est défini par Max More comme suit[4] :
molecules storage Storage is a very exciting thing these days: SSDs are increasing in capacity and becoming cheaper, hard drives are offering storage capacity that’s unprecedented at the consumer level, and recently, scientists have been able to store significant amounts of data using unusual mediums, such as strings of DNA and small groups of atoms. Now, scientists have managed to store data in individual molecules. Using a new, still-experimental technology, researchers have managed to turn individual molecules into a storage medium. Molecular memory isn’t an entirely new concept but there have always been significant hurdles, the first of which is no stranger to the computing world: cooling. The team also overcame another significant hurdle standing in the way of molecular memory. Research paper: Interface-engineered templates for molecular spin memory devices [Image credit: Wallsonline]
me In an Ancient Mexican Tomb, High Society and Human Sacrifice - N The archaeologist in charge, Bruce R. Bachand of in Utah, determined from the style of ceremonial pottery in the tomb that the burials occurred about 2,700 years ago. He said that could be several centuries earlier than any richly decorated burials previously found in Mesoamerican pyramids. Dr. Bachand said recently in an interview by telephone from the site that the two principal skeletons bore the hallmarks of persons “at the very top of society.” Anthropologists who specialize in pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico and Central America said it was premature to assess the find’s full significance but agreed with Dr. The discovery was made near the top of a 30-foot-tall pyramid, the highest structure at the central plaza of the ancient site at Chiapa de Corzo in the state of Chiapas, not far from the Guatemala border. The tomb raised a difficult question: What culture was responsible for it? Dr. But aspects of the burials differed from the Olmec culture, he said. Elsa M. She praised Dr.
Les conséquences de la techno-médecine 01Business le 08/07/13 à 15h20 « L’homme qui vivra mille ans est peut-être déjà né » cette phrase de Laurent Alexandre, chirurgien-urologue et neurobiologiste, diplômé de Science Po, d'HEC et de l'ENA, résume bien l’influence des biotechnologies sur le futur de l’humanité. Depuis sa première édition en 2008, l’USI a pour vocation de réunir "les geeks et les boss" autour de sujets traitant d’actualité informatique, de nouvelles technologies, d’innovation, mais aussi de philosophie ou de design. Accelerating Future » Top 10 Transhumanist Technologies Transhumanists advocate the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology. Not just technology as in gadgets you get from Best Buy, but technology in the grander sense of strategies for eliminating disease, providing cheap but high-quality products to the world’s poorest, improving quality of life and social interconnectedness, and so on. Technology we don’t notice because it’s blended in with the fabric of the world, but would immediately take note of its absence if it became unavailable. Transhumanists tend to take a longer-than-average view of technological progress, looking not just five or ten years into the future but twenty years, thirty years, and beyond. 10. Cryonics is the high-fidelity preservation of the human body, and particularly the brain, after what we would call death, in anticipation of possible future revival. 9. Clearly, World of Warcraft’s eight million subscribers and SecondLife’s five million subscribers are onto something. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
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The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity’s Impact by Elizabeth 17 May 2010: Analysis by elizabeth kolbert The Holocene — or “wholly recent” epoch — is what geologists call the 11,000 years or so since the end of the last ice age. As epochs go, the Holocene is barely out of diapers; its immediate predecessor, the Pleistocene, lasted more than two million years, while many earlier epochs, like the Eocene, went on for more than 20 million years. In a recent paper titled “The New World of the Anthropocene,” which appeared in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, a group of geologists listed more than a half dozen human-driven processes that are likely to leave a lasting mark on the planet — lasting here understood to mean likely to leave traces that will last tens of millions of years. Human activity, the group wrote, is altering the planet “on a scale comparable with some of the major events of the ancient past. Are we living in the Anthropocene? Stratigraphy, the official keeper of the geological time scale. MORE FROM YALE e360