Sunday, May 4, 2014

Is the movie Transcendence plausible?

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/04/transcendence_science_can_we_really_upload_johnny_depp_s_brain.html

The 2070 time frame for whole brain emulation seems to ignore the Law of Accelerating Returns (assuming it holds), and I understand we have supercomputers right now that may be able to handle a human brain (even if the software and brain understanding issues lag behind).

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MIT Mined Bacteria for the Next CRISPR—and Found Hundreds of Potential New Tools

https://singularityhub.com/2026/04/07/mit-mined-bacteria-for-the-next-crispr-and-found-hundreds-of-potential-new-tools/