Accelerating scientific advances will make for dramatic changes in the next few decades than most of us can imagine. Kurzweil gives us some idea of what this will mean.
Entries Tagged as 'Cutting Edge'
Ray Kurzweil – Why The Future Is Coming Much Faster
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
Tags: computers·futurism·kurzweil·scientific change
Cutting Edge Hand for Amputees
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
People who have been unfortunate enough to lose fingers or even a whole hand can now get a cutting edge prosthetic hand.
Tags: amputation·amputee·prosthetics·robot·robotics
Walking Robot Reality
November 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
A walking robot has become reality.
Nanotech Rotor Created
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
A great step forward in nanotechnology has been made. A cog has been made out of atoms, and rotated clockwise and anti-clockwise.
Tags: Cutting Edge·nanoparticles·nanotech·nanotechnology·science
Free Longevity Book
October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
This is a great ebook which does a good job of explaining where we are today with regard to healthy anti-aging strategies.
Best of all – it is completely free. David Kekich is doing all he can to publicize anti-aging, so is giving this book away. It’s a chunky tome – and packed full of information.
It [...]
Tags: Aging·anti-aging·antiaging·ebook·health·lef·life extension·longevity
Longevity Conference, November 2009
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
Gosh – I’d like to go to this – the Manhattan Beach Project, Los Angeles. It’s the conference I wanted to go to when I went to Convergence08 last November: because this on is focused specifically on longevity.
The field of longevity research is getting very exciting now. Aubrey de Grey is quoted as thinking there [...]
Tags: anti-aging·antiaging·conference·convergence08·kurzweil·lef·life extension·longevity·research
Brain Does Not Shrink With Age
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
Because people with diseases which make the brain deteriorate have been included in past studies, the shrinking of the brain has been exagerated.
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Method to Combat Genetic Disease
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
A method of ridding future generations of inherited disease will soon be used on humans.
Tags: Cancer·Diabetes·genetic·germline·therapy
A Computerized Brain Will Happen
August 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
Scientists in Switzerland have said they expect to have built a fully-functioning replica of a human brain by 2020.
Tags: brain·computer·computer brain·human brain·replica·supercomputer
New Stem Cell Methods
August 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Cutting Edge
The concerns with stem cell research came about mainly for ethical and religious reasons. One bright light on the horizon is the development of new methods of generating stem cells.

