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Rich 'may evolve into separate species'
Mr Saffo, from San Francisco, says in the future people will be able to grow their own replacement organs, take specially tailored drugs, and use genetic research tools to alert them from any possible hereditary health dangers.
He adds that tomorrow’s world will be a fusion of biology and technology, where robots do the chores, cars drive themselves and artificial limbs are better than real ones.
Mr Saffo’s comments reflect claims by American scientist Ray Kurzweil who only a few months ago said immortality was only 20 years away due to the speed of advancements in nanotechnology.
But Mr Saffo says these improvements would only be affordable to the super-rich. And because of this, he says, advancements may lead to a divide between the classes and eventually could lead to the super-rich evolving into a different species entirely, leaving his not-so-rich counterpart behind.
Seen at The Telegraph
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Augmented Reality: head-mounted displays | Beyond The Beyond
head mounted augemented reality displays from 1916!
Google CEO: Vast Web changes coming within 5 years
A Web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said Wednesday.
Seen at Yahoo! News
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Wearing Weather Data as a Bracelet on Datavisualization.ch
daily max/min temps for canberra as a bracelet.
Wonderful concept and art.
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Spies may soon be bugging conversations using actual insects, thanks to research funded by the US military.
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has spent years developing a whole host of cyborg critters, in the hopes of creating the ultimate ‘fly on the wall’.
Now a team of researchers led by Hirotaka Sato have created cyborg beetles which are guided wirelessly via a laptop.
Using implants, they worked out how to control a beetle’s take-off, flight and landing by stimulating the brain to work the wings.
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The Berkeley researchers suggested the ‘cyborg’ beetles - part beetle, part machine - could serve as models for micro air vehicles.
Sato and colleagues also said the beetles could serve as couriers to inaccessible locations. The Berkeley team is also experimenting on dragonflies, flies and moths because of their ‘unmatched flight capabilities’.
U.S. military create live remote-controlled beetles to bug conversations (via bellatoris)Surfacescapes is a proof of concept that combines Microsoft Surface and Dungeons & Dragons. Cool proof of concept.
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New camera will reveal your entire life...
In regard to the ViconRevue pendant camera, Andrew Keen’s comment:
Worn on a cord around the neck, I fear that the ViconRevue could end up strangling those English virtues of individual liberty to which George Orwell dedicated his life. Invented for the demented, this product will lead to a general social dementia if popularly embraced.
