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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.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
A Lab Published How Much of Its Research the AI Now Runs
It’s weird that I remember reading 23 years ago that this would happen about now.
Monday, September 28, 2026
Friday, September 25, 2026
DNA Has a Four-Letter Alphabet. Scientists Just Expanded It to Eight
Considering all the variations of life evolution has been able to create with just 4 letters…what orders of magnitude more might 8 result in?
I had to ask GPT. It said this: “So for something the length of a modest 1,000-base gene, an eight-letter alphabet has about 301 additional orders of magnitude of possible sequences.”
Holy crap!
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Monday, September 21, 2026
Sunday, September 20, 2026
Canada's New Invention Could Replace Solar Panels Forever
Perovskites are finally making it into production. Just add it as a thin film over your existing solar panels to significantly boost production. Nice!
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
The cost of intelligence is collapsing faster than anything in the history of technology
“The cost of intelligence is collapsing faster than anything in the history of technology. According to the Stanford HAI 2025 AI Index Report, the cost of querying an AI system performing at GPT-3.5 level dropped from $20.00 per million tokens in November 2022 to just $0.07 per million tokens by October 2024. That is a 280-fold reduction in approximately 24 months. For the price of a coffee, anyone can now command research capability that five years ago would have required a team of specialists and millions in capital. The barrier to creating, building, and launching has been effectively removed.”
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Unitree Breakthrough: The World’s First Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot Combat
Well, I certainly never predicted that robots would learn how to shin kick like we do in Muay Thai!
We’re Already Inside It (the Singularity)
The Singularity is here. And that robot is pretty terrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karLUZD9BRk
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Microchip manufacturers are working with different materials to carry Moore's Law beyond silicon: http://www.technologyreview.com/comput...
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"A computer chip that performs calculations using probabilities, instead of binary logic, could accelerate everything from online bank...