Soon to be available for sale: shed-sized, safe, relatively cheap, no-maintenance nuclear power stations with no moving parts and no weapons-grade material, each capable of powering 20,000 homes and requiring refills every decade:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/09/miniature-nuclear-reactors-los-alamos#history-byline
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.
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AI Just Made 800 Years of Scientific Discovery in ONE Year!
A good summary of the stunning advances AI has already quietly achieved. https://youtu.be/oewpxwoj1dQ?si=tqwX6YhlKkOGjXLU
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Terminator, here we come: https://www.techspot.com/news/102769-darpa-unleashes-20-foot-autonomous-robo-tank-glowing.html
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“Our AI tools dramatically accelerated the discovery process, which uncovered five entirely new porous transition metal oxide structures tha...
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