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The End of Theory Opens Up Serendipity
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(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com ) Here's a very interesting article on WIRED. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete "Petabytes allow us to say: "Correlation is enough." We can stop looking... More »
Do You Want to Live Forever?
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It depends on what we mean by forever. In the end, there can be only one. "Channel 4 Documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey.... More »
On the Future of Diet, Gas Emissions, and Dying
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(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com ) John Tierney posted a quick run through of Kurzweil's version of the singularity. "Do you have trouble sticking to a diet? Have patience. Within 10 years, Dr. Kurzweil explained, there will... More »
What would you choose to make a film about?
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A film about a post- singularity world when humankind had achieved convergence of technology and spirituality on a planetary scale. The Matrix, Blade Runner, and Star Trek all rolled into a futuristic dystopian saga. I'm... More »
Red ~C Diary: Witnessing the Metaverse
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(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com ) 'After catching the first Matrix film with some RealNetworks colleagues, Rosedale left the theater glum, announcing to them, "But that's what I was gonna make!"' - Philip Rosedale via The Making... More »
Random Obituaries: Arthur C. Clarke
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via New York Times Obituaries "Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had... More »
Freaky But Cool Four-Legged Robot
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(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com ) Check out Boston Dynamics' BigDog . It keeps going and going even if you kick it. Some of you might be wondering what the heck would we use this robot for.... More »
Digitizing Mind
~C4Chaos
From digitizing life to digitizing mind... Blue Brain Project brings us closer to the technological Black Swan . via Seed: Out of the Blue "The Blue Brain project is now at a crucial juncture. The... More »
Digitizing Life
~C4Chaos
I've been waiting for this video! Check out Craig Venter at TED 2008 . Thanks to my buddy ~Matthew for the heads up!
SPiM: Harbinger of the Autoverse
~C4Chaos
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com ) In the sci-fi novel Permutation City (see my book review here ), there is a simulation program called, Autoverse -- "an artificial life simulator ultimately based on cellular automaton complex enough... More »
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July 2008