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| Human Future WebsitePredicting the future is by no means an easy task, it requires considerable erudition, creativity, imagination and wisdom.
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| Future ExtremeNew technologies are entering the world scene, challenging us and creating an environment for restructuring of society. Future Extreme is an online magazine dedicated to observe and discuss the implications. |
| Transcurve NetworkTranscurve is a website dedicated to the technological singularity, including information technology, robotics, genetics and artificial intelligence. Transcurve is a social network for transhumanism on Ning. |
| News Bits About Qubits: Scientists Store and Retrieve Data Inside an AtomIn a paper entitled: “Solid-state quantum memory using the 31P nuclear spin,” published in the October 23 issue of the journal Nature, the team described an experiment in which exceptionally pure and isotopically controlled crystals of silicon were precisely doped with phosphorus atoms. Quantum information was processed in phosphorus electrons, transferred to phosphorus nuclei, then subsequently transferred back to the electrons. This is the first demonstration that a single atomic nucleus can serve as quantum computational memory. |
| The Apple “iThink” conceptConsider this a concept that that might have been and may still be, should Steve Jobs get a bit too enamored with The Matrix. It could be the next hot Apple item, leaving the iPod and iPhone in the dust. Designer Paul Micarelli came up with it. |
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| EARTH 12000: EXPLORING SPACE, TIME, AND PARALLEL UNIVERSESThis concludes the ten-part Earth series which began three years ago with “Earth 2030” and ends today with a glance at what life may be like ten millennia from now.
Of course, nobody can predict exactly how the future will unfold in 10,000 years, but by tracking technology advances expected in the coming centuries, we see changes that will transform humanity into super-intelligent beings focused on developing space, exploring universes, and traveling through time.
Imagine if you could peek in on the dinosaurs first-hand, enjoy an exotic vacation thousands of light years from Earth, or jump into a parallel universe where another you is living a far more exciting life than yours – and you could stay there if you like.
For years, scientists around the world have bandied about the revolutionary idea that future humans could zip across the universe using wormholes as high-speed portals enabling faster-than-light travel to explore space, enter other universes, and witness the past and future. |
| Earth 2500 – humans dominate galaxy, develop space/time travelAfter rising from the ‘primordial soup’ to become today’s amazing humans, futurists ponder our next step. Hawking, Kurzweil, Drexel and others see technologies advancing exponentially in the coming centuries providing a future filled with happiness, affluence, and a greatly extended lifespan.
Of course, no one knows for sure how life will progress in 500 years, but if we look at what experts predict in the near future – biotech wonders repairing bodies in the 2010s, nanotech providing affluence for everyone in the 2020s, and 2030s miracles that suggest rebuilding bodies with ‘immortal’ materials – then blend in some creative thoughts, a future appears that seems more magical than real.
Imagine a world with only 2,000 families, each living on an estate the size of California with snow-capped mountains, deserts and beautiful coastlines. Now further imagine that ‘humanoid’ robots cater to our every whim and we can change the weather with voice commands (“let there be snow; rain; sunshine”), but here’s the best part: these estates are available free as land grants.
The catch: you’re on a newly-terraformed planet orbiting 16 Cygni, a double-star system seventy light-years from Earth. Hoping to encourage more people to become space-dwellers, officials offer deals like this with the following arrangement: “Stay one year in your new home, become active in global politics, and this beautiful nano-protected estate is yours forever”. |
| Life in the 2050s – immortal bodies, robot servants, increased wealthImagine living in a powerful, healthy body without fear of unwanted death, in a world with humanoid robots responding to our every need, and in a life filled with abundance and prosperity, free from financial worries.
Though these scenarios may seem too futuristic to happen in just 43 to 53 years, experts believe that exponentially-advancing technologies could indeed make this amazing future possible by the 2050s.
Author Ray Kurzweil, in The Singularity is Near details how our bodies will evolve. Today’s frail human body, “version 1.0”, has a high failure rate (more than 50 million people died last year). Biotech and nanotech advances predicted for the next two decades promise a more durable “version 2.0” that will become immune to many diseases, including aging.
“This brings us to “version 3.0”, a remarkable body boasting a zero failure rate,” Kurzweil says. Even if a destructive accident were to occur, molecular nanotech and quantum computing – expected by mid-century or before – could construct a new body with simulated programming of the patient’s lifetime of mind activities and memories, allowing life to continue |
| Artificial brains will create smarter robots, enhanced humansSpanish researchers at University of Granada have achieved a giant leap for robotkind by creating the first artificial cerebellum (the brain section that controls motor functions), with the goal of improving how robots interact with humans.
Their creation will soon be installed in a robot designed by the German Aerospace Centre in a four-year project funded by the EU, which brings together physicists, neuroscientists and electronic engineers from leading European universities.
Researchers are building microchips that incorporate a full neuronal system, emulating how the cerebellum interacts with the human nervous system. This, they say, will help robots become more human-like when working in the everyday world. They are also constructing an artificial skin to give robots a more sensitive touch. |
| Posthuman EthicsPosthuman Ethics
Dale Carrico has some interesting ideas about what posthumanism should not mean, drawn from a rather bleak picture of what humanism was all about:
Clothed in the language of universality, the entitlements of the humanity proclaimed by humanists have never extended to more than a fraction of actual human beings. Assured of its location on a “natural†progressive trajectory attaining inevitably toward universal emancipation, humanism too readily accommodated contemporary injustices as temporary and, hence, somehow tolerable -- especially to those humanists who didn’t happen to suffer them. And, further, as the ethics of a questionably contrued "human race" and of the universal "civilization" problematically connected to this race, it grows ever more difficult to shake the troubling analogies between humanism and its debased technoscientific companion discourse: the "race science" that legitimized every brutal imperial, colonial, globalizing, ghettoizing, apartheid regime in modern memory.
Needless to say, these painful recognitions demand painful reckonings. It is this crisis of humanist conscience -- which is not really one crisis, so much as many different crises, arising out of a variety of concrete situations and taking a proliferating variety of consequential forms -- that more properly goes by the name "post-humanism." |
| Our Accelerating FutureThe other day I explained why society doesn’t always absorb new technologies as fast as early advocates often believe will happen. As with almost every issue, there is another side to the story and I’d now like to argue why emerging technologies will be adopted at an ever accelerating rate. |
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