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Advancing Technologies
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
Monday, July 21, 2025
Saturday, July 19, 2025
OpenAI Just Won Gold on the 2025 International Math Olympiad — BIGGEST AI NEWS ALL YEAR!
Math is the basis of every science. Solve math and you can accomplish almost anything.
A Realistic Scenario of AI Takeover
This is an interesting perspective. A very plausible benign AI apocalypse that doesn’t even require actual AGI:
Friday, July 18, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Monday, July 14, 2025
AI may not be nearly as advanced as we think
From the perspective of those who don’t think AI will become conscious anytime soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtHuXwxBcFA&feature=youtu.be
and
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
How AI Takeover Could Happen In 2 Years: A Scenario
This is the scariest but still plausible future of AI:
Monday, July 7, 2025
China’s Groundbreaking Diabetes Breakthrough—And the Global Backlash
This could be either a technology or political post, but I think the technology part is more important so here you go:
https://engineerine.com/chinas-groundbreaking-diabetes-breakthroug/
Sunday, July 6, 2025
AI helps develop ‘clean magnet’ that could spur green energy production
This is important because China, I think, produces the world majority of rare earth magnets.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-magnet-rare-earth-mineral-clean-energy-b2565041.html
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Friday, July 4, 2025
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Scientists Find an “Off Switch” for Cholesterol – And It Could Save Millions
“By shutting this “off switch,” immune cells called macrophages regain their ability to soak up cholesterol, potentially stopping heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and more before they start. The team also fingered nitric oxide synthase as an accomplice, hinting at a two-pronged drug strategy that could revolutionize treatment for millions.”
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-find-an-off-switch-for-cholesterol-and-it-could-save-millions/
Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors
It uses all the top tier US models as a team of medical experts. This should get released soon!
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-medical-superintelligence-diagnosis/
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Saturday, June 28, 2025
The Dream of an AI Scientist Is Closer Than Ever
More important still, though, is using AI to improve AI, which is already starting to happen.
https://singularityhub.com/2025/06/26/the-dream-of-an-ai-scientist-is-closer-than-ever/
Friday, June 27, 2025
Space Emerges From Time? Groundbreaking Theory Upends Einstein
Fascinating potential rewrite of physics:
https://scitechdaily.com/space-emerges-from-time-groundbreaking-theory-upends-einstein/
Time would be analogous to a spiderweb (“timeweb”). We travel along the strands radiating from the center (the Big Bang). The perpendicular supporting strands are junctures where you can leave your strand and move over to a different strand, thus allowing you to travel into a different future. You could potentially return to your original strand via another perpendicular strand, or travel to a different timeline by taking a different perpendicular strand, but every timeline you traveled to would be the same date (although if the Earth of a different timeline was near a high-mass object, like a neutron star or black hole, relativistic effects could decouple the sync!).
Alas, according to Sabine, it’s all bollocks: https://youtu.be/LWzK6nITCK0?si=FP2JH3ImQOiPR7VZ
This Anti-Aging Drug Rivals Calorie Cutting for Longer Life, Study Finds
But how to get it…and for a reasonable price?
https://scitechdaily.com/this-anti-aging-drug-rivals-calorie-cutting-for-longer-life-study-finds/
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Monday, June 23, 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
World’s First Hybrid Betavoltaic Cell Promises Decades of Power Without Charging
I suspect it’s very low power, though.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Friday, June 13, 2025
What If the Big Bang Wasn’t the Beginning? Research Suggests It May Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole
A very interesting solution to the origin of our universe:
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Sam Altman's STUNNING Post "We Are Close to Building Superintelligence"
The technological singularity predictions of a few decades ago no longer sound like science fiction, as they are within our grasp right on time:
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Saturday, June 7, 2025
New Material Supercharges Solar Panel Power & Lifespan
“While operating for weeks in the Saudi desert, solar cells with this material adhered to them were 9.4 oC cooler than those without the new material. They also showed an increased power output of more than 12% and an increased lifespan of more than 200% while reducing their cost of generating electricity by nearly 20%.”
https://scitechdaily.com/new-material-supercharges-solar-panel-power-lifespan/
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Monday, June 2, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025
AI 2027: A Realistic Scenario of AI Takeover
Wow. This is the most detailed description of the future of AI that I have yet seen, including both utopian and dystopian possibilities:
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Saturday, May 24, 2025
AI Video Just Went TOO FAR... NIGHTMARE FUEL (VEO 3)
Truly life-like AI video with audio narration and other sounds all generated with simple prompts is here:
https://youtu.be/caXrIUtl2s0?si=U7yjHidccPXXlwxZ
Truly amazing.
Although I have noticed a slight tell: over-articulation of the mouth.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Google’s AlphaEvolve is absolutely SAVAGE
This is a really good description of how evolutionary principles are being used to create scientific and technological breakthroughs and allow AI to self improve.
Who would have thought my evolution degree would be more useful in creating the technological singularity than a programming degree? ;-)
Friday, May 16, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Alzheimer’s Risk May Begin Before 30, New Study Warns
“Additionally, we learned that certain Alzheimer’s risk factors—such as cardiovascular health, ATN (amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration), and immune biomarkers—are present and related to cognition in individuals in their forties and even earlier.”
So where do we get these tests?
https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-risk-may-begin-before-30-new-study-warns/
Scientists Discover Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s Hiding in Plain Sight
"Researchers found the PHGDH gene directly causes Alzheimer’s and discovered a drug-like molecule, NCT-503, that may help treat the disease early by targeting the gene’s hidden function."
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-hidden-cause-of-alzheimers-hiding-in-plain-sight/
Thursday, May 8, 2025
$2M supercomputer powered by NVIDIA delivers 80X leap in chip and drug design
Yow!
“The system delivers up to 80X faster performance and 20X lower power usage compared to CPU-based predecessors.”
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/2m-supercomputer-powered-by-nvidia
Friday, May 2, 2025
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Natural Supplement Rewinds Biological Age and Improves Health
Great, but WHICH compounds, vitamins and antioxidants?
“A study led by researchers from TruDiagnostic explored the potential anti-aging effects of the Cel System, a natural supplement composed of plant compounds, vitamins, and antioxidants. In a year-long trial involving adults aged 54 to 84, participants who took the supplement experienced reduced biological age, improved strength, better body composition, and shifts in DNA methylation patterns linked to stress and brain function.”
Friday, April 25, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
5 Million Kilometers - How Sodium Batteries Are About to Crush Lithium
Battery technology just keeps surging ahead in leaps and bounds:
Monday, April 21, 2025
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Are We Finally Not Alone? Webb Detects Life’s Signature on Distant Ocean Planet
Friday, April 18, 2025
Natural Compound Found in Mushrooms Delays Aging and Extends Lifespan, Study Suggests
Not for me, thanks. https://scitechdaily.com/natural-compound-found-in-mushrooms-delays-aging-and-extends-lifespan-study-suggests/
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https://scitechdaily.com/storing-thousands-of-terabytes-in-a-single-gram-of-dna/
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I’d like to get this test, just in case: https://scitechdaily.com/new-blood-test-detects-alzheimers-and-tracks-its-progression-with-92-accur...