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(http://www.thevenusproject.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
about 21 hours ago
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The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, vio...
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thevenusproject, venusproject, design, future
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(http://www.nickbostrom.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
about 21 hours ago
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I want to make it possible to think more rationally about big picture questions.
Some of these questions are about ethics and value. Others have to do with methodology and how we make predictions or deal with uncertainty...
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nickbostrom, philosophy, simulation, simulationtheory, singularity, acceleration
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(http://forwardonline.wordpress.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
about 21 hours ago
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First, as timely and effective as Superstruct will be, this game will not change everything. No “one thing” will change everything! I actually intended the title as a little futurist humor (very little) in response to a post by Futurist, Speaker, ...
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superstruct, cascio, frankspencer, forward, discover, iftf, foresight
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(http://www.bltc.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
about 23 hours ago
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BLTC RESEARCH was founded in 1995 to promote paradise-engineering. We are dedicated to an ambitious global technology project. BLTC seek to abolish the biological substrates of suffering. Not just in humans, but in all sentient life.
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bltc, biologicalsubstrate, postdarwinism, singularity
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(http://online.wsj.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
1 day ago
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Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker on the inevitable recession and the tools that are in place to mitigate its impact.
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recession, depression, volcker, fed, federalreserve, banks, stockmarket, wallstreet, finance
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(http://www.newscientist.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
3 days ago
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Men may wince at the thought, but biopsies from human testicles have yielded stem cells that can be turned into virtually any cell in the body...such cells would avoid the ethical concerns surrounding embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which have the sa...
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stemcells, ethics, testicular, programmablecells
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(http://www.canada.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
3 days ago
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Police often say that organized crime in B.C. is big business. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before gangsters here adopted the device of choice among corporate workaholics: the BlackBerry.
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blackberry, crime, pda, corporations, enterprise, cellphone
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(http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
3 days ago
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The laboratory which invented genetic fingerprinting believes the same technique could be refined to reveal the surnames of men. A study of more than 2,500 men bearing over five hundred different surnames found those with the same family name are ...
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dna, fingerprinting, surname, id, identification, crime, suspect
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(http://www.memebox.com)
- posted by: Mielle Sullivan
4 days ago
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Nothing gets humans up in arms like a new technology. Will it cure our ills and save us from destruction? Or end the world in one cataclysmic Earth-shattering moment? Clearly, no invention has accomplished either, but try telling that to the fa...
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socrates, singularity, y2k, google, largehadroncollider, writing, technology, psychology, film, nuclearpower, climatechange, energycrisis, cullture, socialissues, internet, worldwideweb
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(http://www.cnn.com)
- scanned by: Lani
4 days ago
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Most people by now will be familiar with the term 'carbon footprint' and may even have calculated it themselves, but how many are familiar with their 'water footprint'?
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(http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals...)
- scanned by: Marisa Vitols
5 days ago
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Determining which industries aren't long for this world may seem easy enough - but some types of businesses, such as telemarketing, are surprisingly hard to kill. And then again, other industries, probably the ones you're sad to see go, can't find...
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industry, work, jobs, markets
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(http://www.singularity2050.com)
- scanned by: Marisa Vitols
5 days ago
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The accelerating rate of change in many fields of technology all manifest themselves in terms of human development, some of which can be accurately tracked within economic data. Contrary to what the media may peddle and despite periodic setbacks,...
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