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Month: October 2009

Server Sky: solar powered server and communications arrays in orbit

Special thanks to longtime Foresight member Monica Anderson for setting up this November 4 Bay Area talk by another longtime Foresight member, Keith Lofstrom: Server-Sky: Solar powered server and communication arrays in Earth orbit. http://www.server-sky.com The EPA predicts US data center power consumption in 2011 will be  120 billion kilowatt hours, or 3% of total… Continue reading Server Sky: solar powered server and communications arrays in orbit

You saw it here first…

Researcher honored for experimental work in nanotechnology. — AFOSR via Eurekalert This is a re-announcement of Custance, Sugimoto, and Abe’ Feynman Prize from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. (I have a personal fondness for AFOSR since they funded some of my optical computing research back in the 80’s.) The Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology… Continue reading You saw it here first…

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Self-Propelling Bacteria Harnessed to Turn Gears

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Self-Propelling Bacteria Harnessed to Turn Gears. No, it’s not harnessing the flagellar rotory motor to turn nanogears, it’s harnessing the entire beast, statistically, to turn microgears. Still interesting.

Don Eigler: Two decades of nanotech – opinion – 14 October 2009 – New Scientist

Don Eigler: Two decades of nanotech – opinion – 14 October 2009 – New Scientist. An interview with Don Eigler of “IBM in 35 xenon atoms” fame. Has nanotechnology trickled down into everyday life yet? To some extent. It’s showing up in coatings, cosmetics and sunscreens, and it’s starting to show up in electronic devices.… Continue reading Don Eigler: Two decades of nanotech – opinion – 14 October 2009 – New Scientist

An Interview with Peter Diamandis, Founder of X PRIZE: On Colonizing Space and Reinventing the Philanthropy Model | OppGreen Insights

An Interview with Peter Diamandis, Founder of X PRIZE: On Colonizing Space and Reinventing the Philanthropy Model | OppGreen Insights. The money quote: PD: So today, one of my companies, Space Adventures, sends people into orbit privately. A trip is $40 million. Our next customer goes up in 5 days, Guy Laliberté, the founder of… Continue reading An Interview with Peter Diamandis, Founder of X PRIZE: On Colonizing Space and Reinventing the Philanthropy Model | OppGreen Insights

Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing

There’s an excellent round-up over at Next Big Future on the Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing. This is solid freeform fabrication, 3-D printing, stereolithography, rapid prototyping, and so forth. In the long run, 3-D printing is one of the more straightforward paths to full-fledged nanotech with mechanosynthesis. Mechanosynthesis might be seen simply as the ultimate in… Continue reading Roadmap for Additive Manufacturing

US General Counts 122 Lives That Bots Could Have Saved | Popular Science

US General Demands Robot Army, Counts 122 Lives That Bots Could Have Saved | Popular Science. It isn’t really clear from this story whether the “robots” involved or available were autonomous, teleoperated, or some combination. However, this story wraps up my reaction to a lot of techno-angst in a nutshell: Speaking at the Association for… Continue reading US General Counts 122 Lives That Bots Could Have Saved | Popular Science

Superconductor World Record Surpasses 250K

Superconductor World Record Surpasses 250K. Superconductors.ORG herein reports the observation of record high superconductivity near 254 Kelvin (-19C, -2F). This temperature critical (Tc) is believed accurate +/- 2 degrees, making this the first material to enter a superconductive state at temperatures commonly found in household freezers. In 3 months, it will be colder than that… Continue reading Superconductor World Record Surpasses 250K

Overcoming Bias : Prefer Law To Values

Overcoming Bias : Prefer Law To Values. Robin Hanson blogs on what kind of robots we’d want to live with in the future: The later era when robots are vastly more capable than people should be much like the case of choosing a nation in which to retire.  In this case we don’t expect to… Continue reading Overcoming Bias : Prefer Law To Values

Eliezer doth protest too much, methinks

Less Wrong: I’m Not Saying People Are Stupid. The real question isn’t whether people are stupid. The real question is whether people make decisions that matter a lot incorrectly. I claim that we’ve already, as a society, decided that they do.  We’ve replaced kings — human beings — with artificial rule-based decision procedures based on… Continue reading Eliezer doth protest too much, methinks

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