The Singularity

2008-02-16T11:31:00.001-08:00

http://tech.msn.com/news/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=6183619&page=3

Harvard Business Review On Nanofactories

2008-01-09T00:10:00.000-08:00

http://smarteconomy.typepad.com/smart_economy/2007/02/nanotech_could_.html

2008-01-08T19:47:00.001-08:00

At CES, the Intel CEO "showed off a demonstration of a mobile Internet device that will one day soon provide simultaneous voice translation as well visual translation of foreign signs and text."

2008-01-08T19:18:00.000-08:00

http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=3938.php

2008-01-03T23:23:00.001-08:00

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/MSD-conveyor-belt-for-nanoage.html

2008-01-03T21:07:00.000-08:00

"Nanotechnology job projections are estimated to be nearly two million workers worldwide by 2015.

In addition, nanotechnology will create another five million jobs worldwide in support fields and industries."

"Future for High-Paying Jobs is in Nanotechnology"

2008-01-03T20:50:00.000-08:00

"In 2020, nanotech will be an important part of the manufacturing base--every industry will be converted or in the process of converting to nanotech processes and products."

2008-01-01T16:52:00.000-08:00

"Self-Assembly is an economical method for assembling precise structures of molecules in a pre-defined way. Once initiated, the self-assembly process assembles trillions of components, such as molecules, into integrated structures that have specific functions."
-Nanoterra

2007-12-31T23:28:00.000-08:00

"Nanotechnology will completely redefine the means of production. When we reach a level of nanotech whereby we are capable of building any structure out of its raw atoms, then capitalism, or the concept of 'ruling elite' or concepts of 'work' or 'money' will not survive. Everybody will have access to the same amount of resources as a multi-millionaire. ... When having in-body nanobots becomes commonplace, people won't need doctors any more."

Nanomachine

2007-12-31T23:23:00.001-08:00

http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemScience/Volume/2008/01/enzyme_powered_delivery_vehicles.asp

"Internet Opens Elite Colleges to All"

2007-12-30T10:22:00.001-08:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/29/AR2007122900855.html?hpid=sec-tech

2007-12-29T23:30:00.000-08:00

http://www.nanotech-now.com/business.htm

2007-12-29T22:29:00.001-08:00

http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Matter-Levitating-Weirdness-Programmable/dp/0465044298/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198995675&sr=8-1

2007-12-29T00:49:00.001-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6940309.stm

2007-12-25T21:56:00.000-08:00

"In 2004, British scientists cultivated a complete tooth in mice and grew them stand-alone in the lab. Researchers theorize that stem cells could be coaxed in the lab to turn into tooth buds which, when implanted in the gums, would grow into a new tooth in a process similar to the way humans grow their original teeth.

King College’s Paul Sharpe predicts this technology will be developed and could become available to the general public by 2009.

Tooth replacement is just another area of expected miracles to come during the biotech revolution, 2010-2020."

2007-12-21T23:25:00.001-08:00

http://web.mit.edu/engineering/enews/vol1no4.html

2007-12-21T19:05:00.000-08:00

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204702409
http://www.theage.com.au/news/fashion/fashioning-technology/2007/12/06/1196812927346.html

2007-12-20T17:44:00.001-08:00

2007-12-20T16:37:00.001-08:00

"Nantero demonstrated a prototype NRAM (Non Volatile Random Access Memory)-based memory that could result in nanotechnology-based memory debuting as early as 2010."

2007-12-20T16:33:00.001-08:00

"Near term applications and associated companies based on carbon nanotube technology worth looking out for include:

• Non-volatile memory (Nantero)
• Field emission displays (Motorola, Samsung)
• Sensors and Actuators (Nanomix, Nano-Proprietary)
• Thermal management (Fujitsu, Nanoconduction)
• IC Interconnect (Fujitsu, Infineon)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Xidex)
• Random number generator (El-Mul)
• General CNT functionalization (Nanocyl)
• Logic Devices (Unidym, NEC, Intel, Aneeve, IBM)

According to NanoMarkets, carbon nanotubes will create $3.6 billion in new business for the electronics and semiconductor sectors by 2009."

2007-12-20T16:24:00.000-08:00

http://www.tfot.info/news/1073/directed-radiotherapy-using-carbon-nanotubes.html
- "clinical trials in ~2010"

Molecular machine research

2007-12-20T12:23:00.002-08:00

http://physorg.com/news117366760.html

Underwater car

2007-12-20T12:23:00.001-08:00

http://physorg.com/news117377410.html

3D Printers-The Economist-2008

2007-12-20T11:52:00.000-08:00

http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1779

Nanotechnology companies going public (on the stock market)

2007-12-19T23:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/business/smallbusiness/20edge.html?ref=technology

2007-12-19T04:51:00.000-08:00

http://www.physorg.com/news117269324.html
"A research team from the Tohoku University will begin a study with Toyota in the aim of putting the car in practical use in 2015-20, said Professor Ryuta Kawashima of the university's Institute of Development, Ageing and Cancer.

The vehicle would be mounted with devices to "watch the driver's brain activity, automatic nerve reflexes, attentiveness and other mental and physical conditions," Kawashima told AFP."

IBM Next Five in Five

2007-12-19T04:44:00.000-08:00

http://physorg.com/news117213808.html

Researchers develop 2-D visible light invisibility cloak

2007-12-19T04:43:00.000-08:00

http://physorg.com/news117219936.html

2007-12-19T04:28:00.000-08:00

"According to Intel, its chips can perform in excess of 1 trillion calculations per second, and could even lead to pure motion control replacing physical controllers if adopted for use in future generation videogame consoles.

"We imagine some future generation of [Nintendo's] Wii won't have hand controllers," said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer.

"You just set up the cameras around the room and wave your hand like you're playing tennis.""

2007-12-15T21:35:00.001-08:00

"sea level rise caused by global warming flooding swaths of Downtown Boston with waters reaching all the way to the Back Bay and Harvard Square in a severe storm"

2007-12-15T21:01:00.000-08:00

"NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: "At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012.""

seemed to say "It will eliminate the lower 20% of Florida."

2007-12-15T11:44:00.000-08:00

"Edward Reifman proposes diamond teeth but would this put dentists in the unemployment line? Brian Wowk manipulates phase array optics to enable the reader to construct a STAR TREK holodeck. J. Storrs Hall envisions filling one's environment with utility fog, placing one within a kind of pixel coated TV screen where objects in your personal space can be moved as easily as pictures on that screen. Tom McKendree say that nanosized assemblers will make goods so plentiful that nothing will be of any value. Crandall, himself, suggests that when room runs out on earth we might repackage man into geodesic spheres, floating ecospheres, in stationary orbit high above the planet."

2007-12-14T16:35:00.000-08:00

http://www.forbes.com/2002/03/14/0314nanotech.html

2007-12-13T20:48:00.001-08:00

http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=3651.php

2007-12-13T20:39:00.000-08:00

"We could grow fields of micro-factories in much the same way that we now grow trees. In such a future, we will have little trouble attaining wealth, but rather in learning how to control it."
-Marvin Minsky

2007-12-13T20:24:00.001-08:00

http://www.scribd.com/doc/888143/The-Scientific-Conquest-of-Death

2007-12-13T07:45:00.001-08:00

http://www.slashgear.com/voiscan-text-to-voice-from-hp-and-mouscan-108932.php
http://www.pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2205391/handheld-translator-developed

2007-12-07T19:31:00.000-08:00

http://e-drexler.com/p/07/00/1204TechnologyRoadmap.html

2007-12-03T16:20:00.000-08:00

http://cba.mit.edu/about/index.html

Voice to voice translating cellphone made

2007-12-01T04:05:00.000-08:00

http://physorg.com/news115630452.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/01/wphone101.xml

http://jp.blognation.com/2007/11/28/docomo-first-mobile-to-provide-voice-translation/

2007-11-28T06:26:00.001-08:00

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10202893

2007-11-27T09:23:00.000-08:00

http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/000256.html

2007-11-27T08:14:00.000-08:00

"Gates also said advances in programming will allow software developers to create applications in less time by using visual representations of the inner workings of software rather than writing lines of programing code."

1987-Bill Gates predicting the singularity

2007-11-27T00:12:00.001-08:00

http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2007/06/05/bill-gates-predictions-for-2007.aspx

2007-11-23T22:09:00.000-08:00

"technology to be able to build a space elevator by 2010, which could be followed by an actual elevator in 2020"

2007-11-23T21:59:00.001-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_engineering - around 2030

"The New Economics of Abundance"

2007-11-22T23:24:00.001-08:00

http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0671.html?printable=1

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http://www.melanieswan.com/presentations/future_of_technology_30min.pdf

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http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=3397.php - "Nanotechnology powered programmable matter could create 3-D representations of almost any object" - Carnegie Mellon

http://miriam-english.org/articles/endofmoney.html

Connectomics (computational neuroanatomy)

2007-11-22T10:12:00.000-08:00

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19731/

2007-11-15T22:41:00.000-08:00

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/speakers/kurzweil.php

3D Printer/Laser Cutter

2007-11-13T21:35:00.000-08:00

http://www.becausewecan.org/node/216

Ponoko

2007-11-13T17:36:00.001-08:00

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19678/
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/04/is_home_3d_scan.html

"It’s Official: The U.S. Government is Preparing for the Singularity"

2007-11-05T20:59:00.000-08:00

http://www.bloggingthesingularity.com/2007/03/

Yale on itunes and video online-15+ classes and 40+ later

2007-11-04T16:37:00.000-08:00

http://www.yaleherald.com/article-p.php?Article=5817
http://cmi2.yale.edu/cgi-bin/cmi2/news.cgi?group=&year=2007&story=49

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=520457 - Harvard

Internet-Connected Cars-probably 2008/2009

2007-11-04T11:16:00.000-08:00

http://tech.msn.com/products/articlecnet.aspx?cp-documentid=5654098>1=10638

2007-11-01T11:07:00.001-07:00

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/kramer5.html

3D Printing With Google Earth

2007-10-27T19:13:00.000-07:00

http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2007/oct/02/news2.html

2007-10-19T11:00:00.001-07:00

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/informance-shades-give-athletes-a-heads-up-display/

3D Printer-Relevant: Plastic as hard as steel through nanotechnology

2007-10-16T10:09:00.000-07:00

http://sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=8F6AA474-E7F2-99DF-3332C34C30DF9269&chanID=sa003
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2007/06/a_3d_printer_fo.html

2007-10-12T08:57:00.001-07:00

http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php?showmode=animated
http://mashable.com/2007/10/11/google-earth-youtube/

2007-10-09T21:58:00.000-07:00

robotic girl

2007-10-09T02:52:00.000-07:00

In 2025, we will have full molecular nanotechnology/MNT (Kurzweil) and "nano-manufacturing will take off and nearly all physical goods become extremely inexpensive. One could download a blueprint for a pair of gloves or an ipod from the internet, and have the household fabricator create them out of pennies' worth of simple 'nanofuel'. The nature of wealth is transformed."

2007-10-07T02:34:00.000-07:00

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/04/sharps-portable-voice-translator-talks-back-at-ceatec/

2007-10-05T17:28:00.001-07:00

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/visits/mitwatchav/mitwatchav.htm
http://cetus.stanford.edu/previewList.aspx
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/
http://itunes.extension.harvard.edu/

Solar Power

2007-10-05T17:05:00.001-07:00

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/03/news/companies/sunpower_solar.fortune/?postversion=2007100403

2007-10-05T15:35:00.001-07:00

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/05/scaler-intros-teleglass-t4-n-video-glasses/

Microsoft Health Vault

2007-10-04T22:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.healthvault.com/

Berkeley Classes Videos Online

2007-10-04T08:55:00.000-07:00

http://physorg.com/news110638174.html

2007-10-02T23:49:00.001-07:00

http://www.vuzix.com/ - virtual reality glasses

2007-10-01T23:33:00.000-07:00

http://taotakashi.wordpress.com/2006/09/01/another-3d-printing-service-about-to-open/
http://www.fabjectory.com/index.php/gallery/secondlife-gallery/

2007-10-01T21:21:00.000-07:00

Harvard dissertation on programmable matter - http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2499

2007-10-01T20:25:00.000-07:00

"In 2012, there will be 3D printer plans for everything imaginable on Bittorrent"/Second Life.

2007-10-01T01:19:00.001-07:00

"circa 2015-2025 when personal nanofactories have been developed and are used extensively"
http://positivefuturist.com/archive/124.html

http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Age-Illustrated-Primer-Spectra/dp/0553380966/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-7433527-3747665?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191729935&sr=8-1 - nanofactories

2007-09-30T03:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.openthefuture.com/2007/09/molecular_rights_management_1.html

2007-09-26T05:50:00.001-07:00

"Bill Gates said that, by 2014, advances in programming will allow software developers to create applications in less time by using visual representations of the inner workings of software rather than writing lines of programing code."

3D Printer to become "mainstream"

2007-09-26T04:46:00.001-07:00

http://www.physorg.com/news109905388.html

Harvard Class-Video Online

2007-09-24T17:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519641

2007-09-24T14:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/09/24/introducing-ahem-windows-live-translator-beta.aspx

2007-09-22T22:17:00.000-07:00

Kurzweil Singularity movie: http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/1049412/Ss/1049412/iid_1327298.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=1049412

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%28film%29 - By Terminator director

2007-09-22T15:26:00.001-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_D._Putnam

2007-09-22T00:34:00.001-07:00

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/google-invasion/google-streetview-camera-cars-continue-their-us-invasion-285655.php

2007-09-21T21:44:00.001-07:00

http://businessweek.mobi/detail.jsp?key=1835&rc=as

"Investment banks are scrambling to implement technology that works faster than human operatives. It could put 90% of traders out of jobs

Updated: 10/03/2006

The robots are on the march and there could be little that City traders can do about it.

Research from IBM has predicted that by 2015 there will be 90 per cent fewer traders employed by the top investment banks as they lose their jobs to computer systems.

In what IBM has dubbed the "algorithmic arms race," investment banks are trying to implement the fastest and most sophisticated systems in a bid to secure an advantage.

The systems which are being increasingly used in investment banks and stock exchanges work to a set of rules or algorithms that allow them to respond to changes in market conditions and make the most profitable trades.

Already the London Stock Exchange is increasing the capacity of its systems to cope with a big increase in algorithmic trading."

2007-09-21T21:01:00.001-07:00

"When I started out in IT, people were saying that Computer Aided Software Engineering tools would eliminate most traditional programming jobs."

2007-09-21T20:14:00.000-07:00

"It won't be long before companies are able to offer Facebook-like social networking services centred around our genomes." ("2012")

2007-09-21T15:27:00.000-07:00

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/fuji-xerox-touts-language-translating-photocopier/

2007-09-19T02:39:00.000-07:00

Minority Report was set in 2054.

2007-09-17T22:20:00.000-07:00

"DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google Earth, said WorldView I, a new high-resolution satellite to be launched on Tuesday, will produce one-half meter resolution images for commercial use, and will be able to collect over 600,000 square kilometers of imagery each day, up from each week."

"Half-meter resolution means the satellites can record images with enough resolution to make it possible to identify objects as small as a half-meter across."

http://www.news.com/New+satellite+to+sharpen+Google+Earth/2100-11397_3-6208209.html?tag=nefd.top

Michio Kaku - 21st Century, Economy

2007-09-17T02:05:00.001-07:00

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/surveys/2024_article/977/
http://www.cap-lmu.de/fgz/reviews/08.php

2007-09-16T21:55:00.001-07:00

http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/150/2015.xhtml

2007-09-16T21:40:00.000-07:00

http://morenews.blogspot.com/2004/07/what-to-do-with-40-petabyte-ipod.html

2007-09-10T14:55:00.001-07:00

http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/09/10/singularity-computers-conference-tech-sciences-cx_bc_0910techsingularity.html

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9774502-7.html

2007-09-09T22:47:00.001-07:00

"Everyone who understands the significance of the singularity is interested in the singularity."

Singularity

2007-09-09T22:34:00.000-07:00

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20676037/
http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/09/peter-thiel-exp.html

Jurvetson

2007-09-08T21:24:00.000-07:00

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail738.html

2007-09-08T16:59:00.000-07:00

"According to a new book by Ian Ayres, an econometrician and law professor at Yale, this is a microcosm of a powerful trend that will shape the economy for years to come: the replacement of expertise and intuition by objective, data-based decision making, made possible by a virtually inexhaustible supply of inexpensive information. Those who control and manipulate this data will be the masters of the new economic universe. Ayres calls them "Super Crunchers.""

"Evidence-based medicine, the use of statistical models to guide diagnoses and treatment, is already changing how doctors practice. "Many physicians have effectively ceded a large chunk of control of treatment choice to Super Crunchers," he writes, and the trend will continue despite understandable resistance from the profession. No one wants to throw away a lifetime of specialized training and experience."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20438245/site/newsweek/

Cab-tracking strike

2007-09-08T15:14:00.000-07:00

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/brenner070907.html

2007-09-08T13:24:00.000-07:00

http://senseable.mit.edu/wikicity/rome/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070907104822.htm

2007-09-07T08:53:00.001-07:00

"What do people most misunderstand about the idea of singularity?"

"I don't think they understand how radically different the world will be in 30 or 40 years, and there are choices that we need to make today to shape the future. - Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal"

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6819441?nclick_check=1

2007-09-06T17:17:00.001-07:00

"Programming tools that are so simple that even laypeople can use them"

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/13377/?a=f

2007-09-05T18:11:00.000-07:00

"There will be many more location-aware services available via mobile devices; such as getting personalized shopping offers as you walk through your local mall, or getting map directions while driving your car, or hooking up with your friends on a Friday night."

2007-09-05T13:24:00.000-07:00

"Apple Puts Wi-Fi in iPod Touch"; has Safari - $299
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136850-c,mp3players/article.html