I’ve talked about depression a lot on this blog, both my own and in general, primarily because I’ve been dealing with it since early childhood. My personal depressive hell has gotten a lot less torturous over the last few years; my depressions now last a day or two at most (thanks primarily to the Lefkoe …
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Here’s a 3D-printing application I really didn’t foresee. It looks interesting, but at those prices, it’s going to be a long time before it catches on. Now, when someone invents a machine that scans your mouth and produces one of these in a few minutes for $10 or less, and puts it in Wal-Mart stores …
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Remember what I said last year, about how governments will soon find themselves responsible for the mental health of their citizens? Academics have just taken another step toward it.
I’ve often wondered what the future would look like if someone did create a true artificial intelligence, and it was simple enough that anyone could do it once they knew how. I’ve often thought that most of today’s intellectual jobs would just vanish, the way that so many blue-collar jobs did when automation started replacing …
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This is utter nonsense, as far as I can tell. There simply wouldn’t be enough volatile material to create something that would explode with any amount of force. At best it could turn someone into a walking fireball for a (very) short time, which is bad enough on an airplane, but would hardly bring it …
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The first burgers created from lab-grown beef have been sampled and declared “close to meat.” This isn’t going to take over overnight, but in ten years it will probably be available in supermarket freezers, and in thirty it will probably be more common than the real thing, simply because it will be nearly indistinguishable from …
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I didn’t realize that we had the technology needed for fusion engines yet! A common theme on this blog is science advances that were anticipated or inspired by science fiction, and this one is no exception. This fusion engine sounds very much like the fictional Lyle Drive mentioned at the beginning of Robert Heinlein’s famous …
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I’ve mentioned a couple times before that machines just seem to like me. Apparently I’m not alone: The one thing I do have in my favour is fairy dust: I have the innate ability to correct computer problems, especially software issues, by magic. Allow me to explain. Have you read in the more fantastical papers …
I’ve talked about 3D printers before, and how they’re destined to revolutionize everything from medicine to construction, but this is an application I’d never considered.
Bruce Schneier, the well-known security expert (warning: that’s an extremely tongue-in-cheek encryption-geekery fan-site), has a new essay on his (real) site today, and it touches on a subject that I’ve talked about before: how at some point in the near future, technology will make it possible for single individuals or small groups to cause destruction …