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It sounds like something from a spy thriller movie: putting on contact lenses that give you infrared vision without the need for a bulky contraption that covers your face. But now, thanks to research at the University of Michigan, such a contact lens is a real possibility. The Michigan researchers turned to the optical capabilities of graphene to create their infrared contact lens. IBM last year demonstrated some of the photoconductivity mechanisms of graphene that make it an attractive infrared detector.
Landmark Alzheimer's Study Pinpoints Protein That Protects Aging Brain
This is a new breakthrough that will help with Alzheimer's and is another reason why we will have reverse aging by 2023.
This is from Huffington Post:
The conundrum has stumped doctors for years. Why do neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's affect only the elderly? Why do some people live to be over 100 with normal brain functioning while others develop dementia decades earlier?
Now, a new study by Harvard scientists points to a possible answer, one that could spark further research that -- ultimately -- could lead to new drugs and treatments for dementia.
When we came back to the states in 1992, and had to get car insurance, the agent said "just a minute", ruffled through a couple of papers, and quoted us a rate in about 20 seconds. He knew where the information was, and how to apply it. Last year, an insurance company spent a billion dollars telling us that we can get a rate quote in 15 minutes, untouched by human hands. Let's see. In 12 months, that will be up to 30 minutes, 60 minutes in two years -- I think the Singularity will be reached when it takes a normal human lifetime (about 5-6 years from now) to get a car insurance quote.
The way things are actually "progressing" in the real world, the Singularity will be defined when absolutely nothing works at all and everything humanly imaginable will be impossible. Everything will be dependent upon systems that only a very tiny few (if any) can understand the functioning of, and when the system fails, the insurance agent has a non-functioning computer in front of him linked to a crashed server and zero understanding of what he depended on the computer to deduce for him. Out in the streets, people will be picking through an ocean of dead semiconductors looking for something to eat.
Why can't anybody see that the most optimistic of all possible predictions is not necessarily the one that will come to pass. Especially when the prediction is made within the current paradigm of all future change being in the hands of mendacious institutions whose greed soars free of guilt and the citizenry is taught to be grateful for it.
When we came back to the states in 1992, and had to get car insurance, the agent said "just a minute", ruffled through a couple of papers, and quoted us a rate in about 20 seconds. He knew where the information was, and how to apply it. Last year, an insurance company spent a billion dollars telling us that we can get a rate quote in 15 minutes, untouched by human hands. Let's see. In 12 months, that will be up to 30 minutes, 60 minutes in two years -- I think the Singularity will be reached when it takes a normal human lifetime (about 5-6 years from now) to get a car insurance quote.
The way things are actually "progressing" in the real world, the Singularity will be defined when absolutely nothing works at all and everything humanly imaginable will be impossible. Everything will be dependent upon systems that only a very tiny few (if any) can understand the functioning of, and when the system fails, the insurance agent has a non-functioning computer in front of him linked to a crashed server and zero understanding of what he depended on the computer to deduce for him. Out in the streets, people will be picking through an ocean of dead semiconductors looking for something to eat.
Why can't anybody see that the most optimistic of all possible predictions is not necessarily the one that will come to pass. Especially when the prediction is made within the current paradigm of all future change being in the hands of mendacious institutions whose greed soars free of guilt and the citizenry is taught to be grateful for it.
It might seem that way but its not true. All the singularity is when a computer will be more intelligent then a human and humans begin to merge with computers. That will occur in 2030. As we advance to that stage there will be some aspects of it you like and some you do not. However its coming to my point to this thread is get use to it and be as prepared as you can be.
It might seem that way but its not true. All the singularity is when a computer will be more intelligent then a human and humans begin to merge with computers. That will occur in 2030. As we advance to that stage there will be some aspects of it you like and some you do not. However its coming to my point to this thread is get use to it and be as prepared as you can be.
You mean, I should prepare to be first in line to have the chip implanted in my neck? Those of us on the "dark side" (there are currently about 6 billion of us) will find a way to throw a wrench into your magic computer. Be as prepared as you can be for that to happen.
You mean, I should prepare to be first in line to have the chip implanted in my neck? Those of us on the "dark side" (there are currently about 6 billion of us) will find a way to throw a wrench into your magic computer. Be as prepared as you can be for that to happen.
I think he's getting way ahead of himself, while the singularity could occur, I doubt it'll come as quickly as he wants or claims. He doesn't seem to understand that science takes time and can be a slow process. For example, there's been a nano channel device that would be implanted in humans and release medicines in the body as needed. Such a device has existed since 2006, but it hasn't been used commercially yet because it's been in testing phase all these years. It will be the same with the upcoming technologies but our friend here believes that once something is developed it'll immediately be released and made public.
You mean, I should prepare to be first in line to have the chip implanted in my neck? Those of us on the "dark side" (there are currently about 6 billion of us) will find a way to throw a wrench into your magic computer. Be as prepared as you can be for that to happen.
By 2030 a computer the size of a blood cell will have thousands of times more processing capability then all of NASA in the 1960's and by then we will have millions if not billions in us. So just like currently the paradigm shift is to wearable computers in the mid to late 2020's the paradigm shift will be to merging with computers.
Now while this sounds crazy think about it this way. Smart phones are common today and have thousands of times more processing capability then all of NASA in the 1960's yet if you told someone in 1964 that in 2014 we would have a "smart phone" that can fit in our pocket with thousands of times more processing capability then all of NASA today more then likely they would have laughed at us just like what people say today when they hear about what computers will be like by 2030.
I think he's getting way ahead of himself, while the singularity could occur, I doubt it'll come as quickly as he wants or claims. He doesn't seem to understand that science takes time and can be a slow process. For example, there's been a nano channel device that would be implanted in humans and release medicines in the body as needed. Such a device has existed since 2006, but it hasn't been used commercially yet because it's been in testing phase all these years. It will be the same with the upcoming technologies but our friend here believes that once something is developed it'll immediately be released and made public.
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It will happen just like we got the smart phone and now Google Glass and meta glasses. By the mid to late 2020's we will start to merge with computers and by 2029 a computer AI will be as intelligent as a human but only for a bit then by 2030 they will be smarter then the un-aided human and that is when things will get interesting.
Artificial intelligence is the next big tech trend. Here’s why
AI is now really starting to catch on and it makes sense as computers are getting advanced enough to have AI. This is today with how this will advance exponentially it will be interesting to see what AI is like by 2020.
This is from the Washington Post:
For more than 50 years, we’ve been hearing about the promise of artificial intelligence and intelligent machines, but most of the big success stories to date – the IBM Watsons of the world – have been the result of massive efforts by universities and corporate R&D labs rather than by emerging start-ups. That could change soon, as artificial intelligence shows signs of becoming the next big trend for tech start-ups in Silicon Valley.
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Landmark Alzheimer's Study Pinpoints Protein That Protects Aging Brain
