Even warning you in advance is no guarantee it won’t paralyze you. Are you ready? Are you sure you are ready? Ok here it comes ….. In no less than 20 years and no more than a 100 years we can have longevity mostly reverse engineered. That means that in that timespan we can have…
Is a 500-Year Human Life Span Just Around the Corner?
Reprinted (quoted) from AlterNet By Jonathan Weiner, Harper Collins Publishers, Inc. Posted on August 6, 2010, Printed on August 6, 2010 Late August, late afternoon, cloudy-bright. We’d taken a corner table at the Eagle, just inside the red door on Benet Street. From there, the tavern’s windows looked across to the tower of St. Benet’s…
Aubrey de Grey: We don’t have to get sick as we get older
(reprinted from the Guardian) 🙂 !! With his beard and robust opinions, there’s something of the Old Testament prophet about Aubrey de Grey. But the 47-year-old gerontologist (who studies the process of ageing) says his belief that he might live to the very ripe old age of 1,000 is founded not on faith but science….
The Intelligent Universe
Reprinted from here. The next stage in evolution—a machine consciousness able to manipulate time and space—is just around the corner. The catch: humans will no longer be in charge. ASSUME, FOR A MOMENT, the point of view of Intelligence. Not an intelligent point of view, but the perspective of Intelligence itself, gazing out on the…
*SCREAMS*
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The year America dissolved — Its only sci-fi until it happens
Reprinted from here. It was 2017. Clans were governing America. The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable. As society broke down,…
The problem of evil.
Reprinted from here Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil “O,” cries Hamlet in the depth of angst, “that this too, too solid flesh would melt / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!” The Prince o’ Danes should’a stuck around. Today, he would have been relieved to find that science,…
Mohammed comes to the Mountain
(reprinted from here) Hi Everyone, It’s been just over 3 weeks now since my return as CEO, and I think I’ve gotten up to speed enough to begin communicating with you in a useful way. This post is an update on what we are doing, and also to announce an in-world meeting where I’ll extend…
Party is over guys !
The golden era is ending and Americans (and Europeans) are being shoved into the ovens. Nukes have gotten us nowhere since we ascribed to competition-based paradigm. Total dependence on foreign oil has gotten us all in shit creek. Slavish devotion to a ‘winner takes all’ paradigm has made us into, well, not the winner. America…
Terasem1
It was an industrial revolution – foamwelding. So, what was it, this ‘foamwelding’ ? In short the Indians came up with it and it had started spreading all throughout the archipellago in the last months. Previous construction costs were counted in ‘adjusted euro’, and the typical L4 habitat cost a fortune. Terasem 1 was one…
Cataclysm !
Time approaches for me to get connected again :)) Art work found on Renderosity, artwork by Kayleyss. Brrrreathtaking – and all the wholesome creamy goodness of Asari and Twileks rolled into one!
We can live like this one day …
Second Life is a medium depicting, in pathetic low resolution and detail, a world. It is an inconsistent world, much like loose sand and a frayed tapestry. All things happen in a loose web of personal relationships, with no destination and little greater context. There is barely any scarcity, and value and values are fleeting…
Global Basic Income, what is it?
Reprinted from here. DO read the comments on this article by serendipity because that’s where the action is :)) Basic: a basic income is a guaranteed minimum income. On top of this ‘basic’ minimum people can earn an income by working, just as they do now. A basic income constitutes the basis of a social…
Some postsingular (!?) terminology
In response to this post: … Yes indeed 🙂 I can give you another bunch of dualities and considerations…. * the spectrum of minds that are an extension of another meme, (i.e. minds that like gaga so much they prefer to be her and forget about being their birth-identity (which I will here label *Idceptity*…
Entitlements – a difficult debate.
My sweet friend Serendipity wrote this in comments regarding an earlier article: A right to a decent standard of living? To be provided by whom? By those who created enough value that they received enough value in return for to not need such a guarantee? By forcing those others who are the current producers and…
The Great Wall
I urge prudence and caution with regards to China. Whereas China may be having an economic growth more than three times the economic growth rates anywhere else, I pose this level of growth to be caused by authoritarian measures, low wages, lawlessness and unfair competition. Free, democratic and transparant societies cannot ever hope to compete…
The future can’t afford old people anymore
(reprinted from here) How to Prevent a Global Aging Crisis July 17, 2010 by David Despain A handful of forward-thinking biogerontologists has joined together to offer a new direction for aging intervention. Their commentary, published July 14 in Science Translational Medicine, presents the case for preventing what the scientists call an “unprecedented global aging crisis”—a…
Is a Singularity Plausible (ref – Extropia DaSilva) ?
Responding to my “sister blog“, by Extropia DaSilva, I can have to share the following observations: (Hi Trophy!) I will rewrite/clean up parts of this post in the next days Technological Singularity: Is such a thing possible? No doubt all of you have come across people who think not, but what does it actually mean…
600th study released showing huge wealth disparity (quoted)
Reprinted from here, (By Allison Kilkenny) It seems like we see this same study every month. The gap between the wealthiest Americans and middle- and working-class Americans has more than tripled in the past three decades, according to a June 25 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Yeah, but we’ve known that…
I can be so much more
In all your travels, have you ever seen a star super-nova? No. Well I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the universe. Other stars, other planets, and, eventually, other life… a supernova. Creation itself. I was there, I wanted to see it, and be part of the moment….
The Poverty Solution: Cash
Reprinted from here, as suggested by James. A new book, “Just Give Money to the Poor,” says the poor will spend the cash wisely and boost the economy, too. By Melinda Burns Who’s responsible for the poor? Back in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth, English lawmakers said it was the government and taxpayers….
Protecting your children from organized online predation
It has become necessary that as a proactive, humanist parent your protect your children from online predators. A new means to do precisely that is by means of godblock, a software tool that keeps out the habitually deceptive and deluded from manipulating your loved ones in to pathological parodoleia. I strongly recommend you look into…
Sex and Gaming – Sociolotron
Graphics: (1/10) Sincerity: (8/10) World: (5/10) Rule Systems: (7/10) Mechanics: (3/10) Combat: (1/10) Socializing: (7/10) Interface: (2/10) Player Interactability: (7/10) Erotic Tension: (6/10) Consistency: (4/10) I had a quick look at Sociolotron. It was created by one guy, some ‘patric’ and hell, I admire the passion of the guy. So what is sociolotron? Well essentially…
ALL anti copyrights arguments in one video three video’s
Cory blows 99% of all copyright arguments out of the water. This guy deserves a medal model. Obligatory watching, all 1.5 hour of it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwheX8XAztM&hl=en_US&fs=1] Updates: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_C77d7KBHk&feature=player_embedded#at=145] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka4L0jGF_-Q&feature=player_embedded#at=37]
Sex and Gaming – 3DKink
Graphics: (8/10) Sincerity: (6/10) World: (2/10) Rule Systems: (3/10) Mechanics: (6/10) Combat: (0/10) Socializing: (1/10) Interface: (7/10) Player Interactability: (1/10) Erotic Tension: (8/10) Consistency: (7/10) 3D Kink has itself a nice little business model here. Anyone who has a look at it should have the sense to see its a scam – play it, pay…