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.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Monday, November 3, 2025
New Drug Kills Cancer 20,000x More Effectively With No Detectable Side Effects
“When tested in a small animal model of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive and hard-to-treat blood cancer, the SNA-based version showed remarkable results. It entered leukemia cells 12.5 times more efficiently, destroyed them up to 20,000 times more effectively, and slowed cancer progression by a factor of 59, all without causing noticeable side effects.”
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
12 Million Miles - The New Battery Tech That Could Power an EV for 100 years
Nice! Battery tech is advancing at a blistering rate.
Scientists Reverse Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice With Impressive New Treatment
Wow, it appears to practically cure Alzheimer’s in just one hour! In mice, though.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Monday, October 20, 2025
Saturday, October 18, 2025
A Nanoparticle Drug Triggered the Brain to Rapidly Flush Out Toxic Alzheimer’s Proteins in Mice
This sounds rather promising:
“In mice modeling Alzheimer’s disease, three shots tricked the barrier into trafficking the toxic proteins out of the brain and into the bloodstream, where they were rapidly destroyed. In just an hour, the treatment slashed amyloid-beta levels in half.”
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Monday, October 13, 2025
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Friday, October 10, 2025
AI Just Made 800 Years of Scientific Discovery in ONE Year!
A good summary of the stunning advances AI has already quietly achieved.
Your plumber has a new favorite tool: ChatGPT
So this is how AI is coming for blue collar jobs even before we have robots to replace them:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/tech/ai-chatgpt-blue-collar-jobs
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Dark Matter and Dark Energy Don’t Exist, New Study Claims
Huh! The universe could be over 27 billion years old?
https://scitechdaily.com/dark-matter-and-dark-energy-dont-exist-new-study-claims/
Monday, October 6, 2025
Sunday, October 5, 2025
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Monday, September 29, 2025
Friday, September 26, 2025
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Friday, September 19, 2025
Why OpenAI’s Solution to AI Hallucinations Would Kill ChatGPT Tomorrow
I’d rather AI say it doesn’t know than B.S.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Can We Stop Alzheimer's?
Just an overall description of Alzheimer’s, testing and treatment. If you haven’t had your shingles vaccine yet, you should do so. 20% reduction in Alzheimer’s risk.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Cancer Found To Trigger Premature Aging in the Body
Specifically with lymphoma. Well that sucks, since I’ve had two different forms and I still live with one. So why do I have a biological age a third of my chronological age?
https://scitechdaily.com/cancer-found-to-trigger-premature-aging-in-the-body/
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Sunday, September 7, 2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Saturday, August 23, 2025
I’ve been using ChatGPT-5 wrong. It’s actually insane (full guide)
These are some very useful tips to make ChatGPT5 much more effective:
Friday, August 22, 2025
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Monday, August 18, 2025
Scientists Uncover Hidden Link Between Cholesterol Flow and Alzheimer’s Disease
Well, at least they know why those with the APOE4 gene likely have a high chance of getting Alzheimer’s.
“We’ve long known that people with the APOE4 variant—especially in the homozygous form—have a much higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s, but until now, the reasons for this weren’t well understood. Our study suggests that one contributing factor may be that neurons, in the presence of this variant, have a harder time absorbing cholesterol delivered through the cerebrospinal fluid.”
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Ozempic Shaves Three Years Off People’s Biological Age in Study
“there’s growing evidence Ozempic’s potential goes further, with studies showing it could help treat cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s, and even substance abuse. Most tantalizing, however, is the possibility it could act as a broad anti-aging medication.”
“On average, the team found that those who had been given Ozempic had epigenetic profiles 3.1 years younger than those who had not received the medication. But interestingly, the impact was not spread evenly across the body. The team found the biggest anti-aging effects in the inflammatory system and brain, where the clock had been dialed back by almost five years.”
But recent studies have also shown Ozempic can cause all sorts of health problems, from macular degeneration to hair loss to pancreatitis.
Hmm, nope, not yet.
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Everyone has bad days
Wow, this is some serious self-loathing:
Google's Gemini bot is being awfully hard on itself, spouting self-loathing to users due to a bug. Here's what Gemini has told users, via Business Insider:
It gets even more intense:
A Google executive tweeted in reply to the chatbot's self-flagellation: "This is an annoying infinite looping bug we are working to fix! Gemini is not having that bad of a day : )."
Scientists Discover Alzheimer’s Clues in the Brain Decades Before Symptoms Emerge
I’d like them to hurry up and roll these out:
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
AI Just Found the Future of Batteries, And It’s Not Lithium
“Our AI tools dramatically accelerated the discovery process, which uncovered five entirely new porous transition metal oxide structures that show remarkable promise,” said Datta. “These materials have large, open channels ideal for moving these bulky multivalent ions quickly and safely, a critical breakthrough for next-generation batteries.”
https://scitechdaily.com/ai-just-found-the-future-of-batteries-and-its-not-lithium/
Monday, August 4, 2025
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Most and least AI-proof jobs
Looks like Piglit may need to start brushing up on those dredge operator skills…
Microsoft released a study assessing jobs' vulnerability to being replaced by AI based on whether AI is currently being used for that work, how successfully it does so and how much of that occupation's work is accounted for by AI.
Most vulnerable:
- Interpreters and translators (Score: 0.49, Number employed: 51,560)
- Historians (0.48, 3,040)
- Passenger attendants (0.46, 20,190)
- Sales representatives of services (0.46, 1,142,020)
- Writers and authors (0.45, 49,450)
- Customer service representatives (0.44, 2,858,710)
- CNC (computer numerical control) tool programmers: (0.44, 28,030)
- Telephone operators (0.42, 4,600)
- Ticket agents and travel clerks (0.41, 119,270)
- Broadcast announcers and radio DJs (0.41, 25,070)
Least vulnerable:
- Dredge operators (0.00, 940)
- Bridge and lock tenders (0.00, 3,460)
- Water treatment plant and system operators (0.00, 120,710)
- Foundry mold and coremakers (0.00, 11,780)
- Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators (0.00, 18,770)
- Pile driver operators (0.00, 3,010)
- Floor sanders and finishers (0.00, 5,070)
- Orderlies (0.00, 48,710)
- Motorboat operators (0.00, 2,710)
- Logging equipment operators (0.01, 23,720)
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Friday, July 25, 2025
Thursday, July 24, 2025
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
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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/
Exercise in a Pill? Oral Compound Shown to Replicate Its Anti-Aging Benefits
https://scitechdaily.com/exercise-in-a-pill-oral-compound-shown-to-replicate-its-anti-aging-benefits/
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Terminator, here we come: https://www.techspot.com/news/102769-darpa-unleashes-20-foot-autonomous-robo-tank-glowing.html