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.
Friday, April 15, 2022
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Friday, April 8, 2022
Cellular 'Rejuvenation' Experiment in Mice Reverses Signs of Aging, Scientists Say
"Although this technique can be used to turn adult cells back into stem cells, the current team had previously shown it can also be used to 'partially reprogram' the cells by reverting them into a more youthful state, but not completely becoming a stem cell again. If the same thing were done to enough cells in an animal's body, this could potentially make the whole organism's body clock seem younger."
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Startup Claims Fusion Power "Breakthrough" Using Massive Gun
I’ve played enough computer games to know that BFG does NOT stand for “Big FRIENDLY Gun.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/startup-projectile-fusion-massive-gun
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Inside Epic's Unreal Engine 5—and What It Means for the Future of Gaming, Movies, and the Metaverse
Wow. The photorealism is here, truly indistinguishable from real life. Now they just have to develop an interface that makes it simple to create without a huge learning curve.
https://time.com/6164332/epic-unreal-engine-5-launch/
(Watch the video of the carpenter’s cellar toward the bottom.)
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Friday, April 1, 2022
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Friday, March 25, 2022
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Monday, March 14, 2022
Friday, March 11, 2022
Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Cellular Rejuvenation Therapy Safely Reverses the Aging Process in Mice
This looks extremely promising:
“When the researchers looked at normal signs of aging in the animals that had undergone the treatment, they found that the mice, in many ways, resembled younger animals. In both the kidneys and skin, the epigenetics of treated animals more closely resembled epigenetic patterns seen in younger animals. When injured, the skin cells of treated animals had a greater ability to proliferate and were less likely to form permanent scars—older animals usually show less skin cell proliferation and more scarring. Moreover, metabolic molecules in the blood of treated animals did not show normal age-related changes.”
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Techno-optimism and the rule-of-threes: why the world will soon enter an era of mass flourishing
Encouraging, although I think the rule of threes sounds a bit forced:
https://bigthink.com/the-future/mass-flourishing-mark-mills/
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Friday, January 7, 2022
Friday, December 24, 2021
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
One Zoom interactive evolutionary relationships tool
This is here just because it is very cool for evolution fans:
Ameca Humanoid Robot AI Platform
Just imagine what personal robots a decade from now will likely look like:
Time-Reversal Phenomenon: In the Quantum Realm, Not Even Time Flows As You Might Expect
Just because this is cool:
Saturday, November 20, 2021
Potential Alzheimer’s Treatments Discovered in Analysis of Existing Cancer Drugs
"The scientists identified brain protein changes related to the APOE4 genetic risk variant in young postmortem study participants (average age at death was 39 years) and compared these changes with those in the autopsied brains of people with Alzheimer’s and those without (average age at death was 89 years)." ... "Their findings show an experimental drug for liver cancer and Dasatinib, approved for chronic myeloid leukemia, act upon some of these Alzheimer’s disease related proteins, suggesting they could be potential Alzheimer’s therapies. The drugs also reduced neuroinflammation, amyloid secretion, and tau phosphorylation in cell culture experiments, underscoring their potential as candidates to be tested in Alzheimer’s clinical trials."
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Promising New Approach To Treat Alzheimer’s Disease – And Also Vaccinate Against It
Well, this is promising:
“While the science is currently still at an early stage, if these results were to be replicated in human clinical trials, then it could be transformative. It opens up the possibility to not only treat Alzheimer’s once symptoms are detected, but also to potentially vaccinate against the disease before symptoms appear.”
This Battery On Wheels Makes Any Diesel Truck Electric In 5 Minutes
This is a brilliant idea too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idhfl-2FHJw
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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...