UFO Hearings On Capitol Hill To Mark FIRST Public Panel In 50 YEARS
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to news that Congress will hold a hearing on UFOs next week.
Can Artificial Intelligence Disrupt the Battlefield?
For Day 16 of The Realignment’s daily coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Mark Valentine, Head of Federal at Scale AI and Air Force veteran/F-16 pilot, joins to discuss how artificial intelligence/machine learning tools teamed with human analysts will reshape the battlefield and scale the satellite-based reconnaissance that […]
The Great reset, UFO’s, transhumanism, and the Occult engineering of the new man
By Jonathan McCormack “Any student of the rise and fall of cultures cannot fail to be impressed by the role in this historical succession by the image of the future. The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures […]
World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN)The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce — and in a way not seen in plants and animals. Formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which […]
Restaurants Turn To ROBOTS To Replace Staff, Almost HALF Of Businesses Can’t Find Skilled Workers
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss the labor shortage, and how the food industry has turned to automation to address staffing issues.
Kick the Puppy S2: E4
Keith, Emma & RJ Game Stop vs Wall Street, Robinhood, micro-revolts in the United States, Dodger Stadium’s COVID-19 vaccination site temporarily shut down after protesters gather at entrance, Robinhood was supposed to be for the little guy, Citadel, aristocrats pretending to be friends with the peasants, rich people […]
Hawking: Mankind has 1,000 years to escape Earth
Russia Today Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking warns human beings won’t survive “without escaping” from the “fragile” planet. His gloomy forecast is people will become extinct on Earth within current the millennium. Speaking at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles the 71-year-old scientist called for further exploration […]
75% of a human skull replaced with 3D-printed material
extremetech.com Grant Brunner 3D printing has really come into its own in the last year or so. From guns to cars, many researchers are now focused on using 3D printing to improve and tweak existing technology. We’ve been able to aid the body’s own repair of damaged bones […]
3D-printed ‘magic arms’ give little girl new reach
news.cnet.com Leslie Katz While Emma can stand and walk on her own, she lacks the upper-body strength to do things like lift objects and draw. (Credit: Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) Thanks to 3D-printed plastic appendages, 4.5-year-old Emma Lavelle now plays with blocks. Born with a rare neuromuscular […]
Brain-computer interfaces let you move things with a thought
slate.com Will Oremus A man wears a brain-machine interface, equipped with electroencephalographyPhoto by Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images Behind a locked door in a white-walled basement in a research building in Tempe, Ariz., a monkey sits stone-still in a chair, eyes locked on a computer screen. From his head protrudes […]
Mercedes give teen a new bionic arm
U.S. Spies See Superhumans, Instant Cities by 2030
wired.com Noah Shachtman Artificial limbs like these could be only the beginning of man-machine interfaces, the National Intelligence Council predicts. Photo: DoD 3-D printed organs. Brain chips providing superhuman abilities. Megacities, built from scratch. The U.S. intelligence community is taking a look at the world of 2030. And […]
Ambassador Lasse Birk Olesen at TEDx Copenhagen: Seasteading + Technology > Politics
Seasteading ambassador Lasse Birk Olesen has been one of the most effective messengers of our vision, and probably the most effective messenger in all of Europe. He has spoken to dozens of groups in his native country of Denmark, and reached countless others through online forums and his volunteer […]
First man to live without a heart dies
google.com (AFP) Czechs on Thursday mourned the death of Jakub Halik, a 38-year-old fireman, who became the first human ever to have survived six months without a heart on artificial life support, but succumbed to liver and kidney failure.
‘Five Top Reasons Transhumanism Can Eliminate Suffering’
transhumanity.net by David Pearce Reality is big. So our optimism must be confined to sentient beings in our forward light-cone. But I tentatively predict that the last experience below “hedonic zero” will be a precisely dateable event several hundred years hence. Here are five grounds for cautious optimism: […]
Should California Secede from the United States?
By Hank Pellissier Transhumanity “Yes (sort of),” says Chris Hables Gray, a “pragmatic anarchist feminist revolutionary” who works as a lecturer of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Cal State Monterey. He believes “devolution” of large nations into smaller regions will improve democratic decision-making. […]
You, robot?
economist.com Technology and regulation: A research project considers how the law should deal with technologies that blur man and machine SPEAKING at a conference organised by The Economist earlier this year, Hugh Herr, a roboticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described disabilities as conditions that persist “because […]
Reverse aging? Scientists find way to make old muscles young again
foxnews.com Loren Grush It is a dream for everyone as they grow older to turn back the clock and live in a younger body once again. While many have developed ways to make the body look younger cosmetically, there have been very few effective methods to combat the […]
Stealth cyborgism: pacemakers, cochlear implants and prosthetics
wired.co.uk Antonio Espingardeiro In science fiction the term “cyborg” is used to describe human beings whose bodily functions are aided or controlled by some type of technology. When you consider that what this actually refers to is enhanced capabilities through technology, we’re not talking about the bionic man. […]
Visions Of The Future: ‘DR0NE’, A Webseries About Autonomous Humanoid Super Soldiers
by David J. Hill singularityhub.com Consider, for a moment, the rising use of drone technology by the military. In light of how years of advances in robotics and artificial intelligence will transform drones, imagine how warfare will look in merely one decade. That’s the subject of a recently released […]
Australians implant ‘world first’ bionic eye
brecorder.com Agence France-Presse Australian scientists said Thursday they had successfully implanted a “world first” bionic eye prototype, describing it as a major breakthrough for the visually impaired. Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), a government-funded science consortium, said it had surgically installed an “early prototype” robotic eye in a woman […]
Artificial limbs, controlled by thoughts
salon.com The idea that paralyzed people might one day control their limbs just by thinking is no longer a fantasy By Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, Scientific American This article originally appeared on Scientific American. In 2014, billions of viewers worldwide may remember the opening game of the World Cup […]
Italy elects first transhumanist MP
kurzweilai.net Giulio Prisco A transhumanist congressman? In Italy? Seriously? Yes. In July, Italy — ironically, a stronghold of the Catholic Church — became the first major Western nation to elect an active transhumanist.
Cyborg tissue is half living cells, half electronics
New Scientist Will Ferguson They beat like real heart cells, but the rat cardiomyocytes in a dish at Harvard University are different in one crucial way. Snaking through them are wires and transistors that spy on each cell’s electrical impulses. In future, the wires might control their behaviour […]
Scientists Clear Path to the Fountain of Eternal Youth
gizmodo.com Jesus Diaz Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered an efficient and totally safe method to turn adult blood cells “all the way back to the way [they were] when that person was a 6-day-old embryo.” The discovery could be the key to cure the incurable—from heart attacks […]
Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers
theverge.com Ben Popper Shawn Sarver took a deep breath and stared at the bottle of Listerine on the counter. “A minty fresh feeling for your mouth… cures bad breath,” he repeated to himself, as the scalpel sliced open his ring finger. His left arm was stretched out on […]
The First Transhumans, or Why Doc Savage Lost His Superpowers
io9.com by Jess Nevins Transhumanism is a popular movement to convert ordinary humans into superhumans, using technology. For 20 years, transhumanism has been a favored topic of futurists, who see it as a possible salvation for humanity. But we’ve already seen one attempt at transhumanism, and it failed […]
Cryonics, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism: Utopia Then and Now
chronopause.com CHRONOSPHERE Over the past few years there has been increasing friction between a subset of cryonicists, and people in the Transhumanist (TH) and Technological Singularity communities, most notably those who follow the capital N, Nanotechnology doctrine.[1, 2] Or perhaps more accurately, there has been an increasing amount […]
2045: A New Era for Humanity
Prometheus – Peter Weyland TED 2023 [OFFICIAL CLIP] HD
Human hearts replaced by 10,000 RPM artificial pump with no pulse
theverge.com T.C. Sottek At least fifty calves and three human beings are living with no pulse in their bodies, thanks to an artificial pump that replaced their naturally-grown hearts, as detailed in a story from Popular Science. Doctors Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn devised the artificial organ, and […]
Nanotube yarns twist like muscles
bbc.co.uk Yarns made of the tiny straws of carbon called nanotubes have an astounding ability to twist as they contract, scientists have found. The effect, reported in Science, is similar to the action of muscles found in elephant trunks and squid tentacles. However, the yarns twist 1,000 times […]
Scientists Report Breakthrough in Quest For “Prosthetic Exoskeleton”
slatest.slate.com Abby Ohlheiser The team’s goal is to build what amounts to a new body for quadriplegics. A Brazilian-born physician and neuroscientist has a goal: A young quadriplegic, suited up in a “prosthetic exoskeleton,” will deliver the first kick at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. It’s a […]
Bulletproof human skin made from spider silk and goat milk developed by researchers
dailymail.co.uk Daniel Bates Researchers genetically engineered goats to produce milk packed with the same protein as silk spiders The protein is then milked out and spun and weaved into a material ten times stronger than steel By Daniel Bates UPDATED: 09:37 EST, 16 August 2011 It might look […]
Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant
thinkonthat.com ChrisB BBC News – Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant. Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world’s first synthetic organ transplant. Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient. Crucially, the technique does not need a […]
New ‘bionic’ leg gives amputees a natural gait
David Salisbury phys.org Enlarge A new lower-limb prosthetic developed at Vanderbilt University allows amputees to walk without the leg-dragging gait characteristic of conventional artificial legs.
Electronic circuits that are integrated with your skin
io9.com Robert T. Gonzalez A team of engineers today announced a discovery that could change the world of electronics forever. Called an “epidermal electronic system” (EES), it’s basically an electronic circuit mounted on your skin, designed to stretch, flex, and twist — and to take input from the […]
Nanofiber Regenerates Blood Vessels
technologyreview.com Kenrick Vezina A synthetic material may help to repair tissue after a heart attack, and aid transplants. Regenerating blood vessels is important for combating the aftereffects of a heart attack or peripheral arterial disease, and for ensuring that transplanted organs receive a sufficient supply of blood. Now […]
DNA circuits used to make neural network, store memories
arstechnica.com Kyle Niemeyer Photograph by albany.edu Even as some scientists and engineers develop improved versions of current computing technology, others are looking into drastically different approaches. DNA computing offers the potential of massively parallel calculations with low power consumption and at small sizes. Research in this […]
A New Artificial Lung Can Breathe Regular Air Rather Than Purified Oxygen
popsci.com Clay Dillow The Iron Lung of Yesteryear Cleveland researchers have devised a way to pack all the function of existing artificial lung technology into a more efficient package that is the size of an actual human lung. CDC Researchers in Cleveland have built an artificial lung that […]
Who wants to live forever? Scientist sees aging cured
reuters.com Kate Kelland (Reuters) – If Aubrey de Grey’s predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger. A biomedical gerontologist and chief […]
Mercedes and Touch Bionics give teenager a hand; the electronic prosthetic kind
tecca.com Mariella Moon This time a week ago, 14-year-old Matthew James still lacked a left hand — something he’s had to live with all his life. But a life-changing procedure he went through on Friday gained him not only a new robotic hand, but also oodles of cool […]
Artificial womb allows embryos to grow outside the body
Robin McKie The Observer Men redundant? Now we don’t need women either Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow outside a woman’s body. The work has been hailed as a breakthrough in treating the childless. Scientists have created prototypes made out of cells extracted from […]
How to Be Inhuman
reason.com Ronald Bailey Biotechnology holds the promise of some day allowing people to enhance themselves and their children using pharmaceuticals or genetic interventions. This prospect is welcomed by some, but causes a great deal of anxiety in many people: Are there enhancements whose benefits would come at the […]
The Politics of Transhumanism
changesurfer.com Version 2.0 (March 2002) James J. Hughes, Ph.D. Originally Presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science Cambridge, MA November 1-4, 2001 For more information please contact: James Hughes Ph.D. Public Policy Studies, Trinity College, 71 Vernon St., Hartford […]
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