Tag: The Singularity Is Near
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My grandparents #throughglass
My grandparents enjoying their great-grandchildren #throughglass. I may have to get an extra pair…
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Dr. Aubrey de Grey in Israel
Dr. Aubrey de Grey (Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey to be exact, age 50) came to Israel for the first time to take part in the 8th European Congress of Biogerontology (fallback link) organized this year by Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Utopia, the Tel-Aviv International Festival for Science Fiction, Imagination and the Future, organized an…
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TED MED: How will nanobots change medicine?
“One word of notice before we begin, all the the technologies you’re going to see here, now, are real…” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5KLTonB3Pg&w=540&h=304] Nano-robots that fix tissues and control drugs have been envisioned for over 30 years. Now, using DNA origami and molecular programming, they are reality. These nanobots can seek and kill cancer cells, mimic social…