A new robot can successfully (if slowly) navigate a building full of open and closed doors, and find where to plug itself in, all without the "cheats" of previous generations:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/science/09robot.html?_r=1
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.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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Scientists Develop Breakthrough Nasal Spray That Could Delay Alzheimer’s by Over a Decade
A decade! https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-develop-breakthrough-nasal-spray-that-could-delay-alzheimers-by-over-a-decade/
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http://www.sltrib.com/home/3898355-155/albuquerque-weighs-getting-more-solar-power
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"An experimental demonstration of a quantum calculation has shown that a single molecule can perform operations thousands of times fast...
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