Archive for the 'Nano' Category

Personal Manufacturing Units

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Potential Reality in Virtual Prosthetics reminded me that Supplier Source and iShop point in the direction of one of the breakthrough ideas predicted for this year by Harvard Business Review they called Personal Manufacturing Units(PMU). reBangs post also reminds us of the essential human elements(enlightened self interest at a minimum) we need to face [...]

Currently Available Consumer Nanotech Products

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

We often think of nanotechnology as something that’s not going to happen until some far-off science future. But this month we’ll be talking about the science present—nanotechnology products that you could go out and buy right now! Julia Moore and Evan Michelson from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will tell us about [...]

Strictly Biological

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Even taken with a very large grain of salt, the effects implied by futurist Ray Kurzweil’s predictions are more profound than the personal computer or web combined:
By 2027, he predicts, computers will surpass humans in intelligence; by 2045 or so, we will reach the Singularity, a moment when technology is advancing so rapidly that “strictly [...]

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