David Friedman: The Economic Models For Nanotechnology

This post was formed in our minds after listening to a lecture titled, Economics of Nanotech and AI, delivered at the Foresight 2010 Conference by David Friedman.  This was such a interesting lecture, that we decided to quote in full and here and there annotate it.

e2Hub: A Global Paradigm Shift 2

We will continue to investigate e2Hub and the people involved in it.

e2Hub: A Global Paradigm Shift 1

Since the industrial revolution, the western mindset has been that man must impose his own world on nature.  This creates a mindset of conqueror and conquered,  victor and vanquished.  Is it time for us to live in peace with our environment?

Augmented Reality: The Most Valuable Real Estate in the World 2

How will the market for augmented reality space fan out?  Let us speculate and explore this.

Augmented Reality: The Most Valuable Real Estate in the World 1

Location, location, location still holds in the world of augmented reality.  There will be a world created by man in cyberspace with multiple levels - a financial bonanza for some.

Facebook: The Emerging Forum For Academic Peer Review

Facebook is emerging as more than just a social network where people chat about little things in their life, or keep up with their friends and family, it is becoming a place where priceless academic discussions are taking place - the modern equivalent of old scientific clubs where scientists and experts discuss relavant issues.

#SS11 Ray Kurzweil on Watson, consciousness, And the Paul Allen rebuttal

LEADER OF THE PACK

Leading futurist, Ray Kurzweil rang in this year's Singularity Summit like a boss. The "rightful heir to Thomas Edison" -Forbes.

Pictorial Highlights from the Singularity Conference 2011

We had the pleasure of attending the Singularity Summit 2011 and will be writing a series of articles in detail on many of the speakers there.  For now, we present a slide show on what we SAW there.  Enjoy!

PlusUltraTech's Store, The Futurist Opens at Cafe Press

If you are looking for futuristic designs to wear on your T-Shirts, Polo Shirts, Outerwear, Hats or even to drink from a futuristic looking mug, go to PlusUltraTech's store, The Futurist at Cafe Press.

Riley Crane, Reality Mining & Red Balloons

Alex Pentland, professor and founder of the Human Dynamics Lab in MIT, is using electronic ID badges, mobile phones and digital media to extract subtle patterns and predict human behavior.  One of his postdoctoral students, Dr. Riley Crane has been assisting him in related areas of this research.

Andrea Rossi, ECat & Cold Fusion 2

We conclude our brief discussion of the research that has gone into producing cold fusion or more properly Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).

Andrea Rossi, ECat & Cold Fusion

Is cold fusion possible?  Does it hold the promise to provide almost unlimited energy for all?

A Business Model For Digital Creators? 3

We conclude with our series of the new world of the Freemium.

A Business Model For Digital Creators? 2

If we are entering this brave new world of the Freemium, how can businesses, content creators and artists survive?

A Business Model for Digital Creators? 1

The digital world demands a new business model.  Information is meant to be free to all.  Knowledge, which is what changes us and expands our universe, should not be a commodity.  But then how will the creative community live?

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory 5b: A New Deal On Privacy

The dangers and blessings of a connected world?  A "New Deal" on privacy is needed.

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory 5a: Data Mining, Reality Mining & Privacy

Have we inadvertently built a global time bomb, as our ad hoc global patchwork of devices make autonomous decisions based on their subjective interpretation of their surrounding world?

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory 4: Global Flight Simulator

We continue with FuturICT's proposal for a paradigm shifting initiative to bring the world together.

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory 3: Artificial Global Nervous System

How is top-down control the enemy of predictive systems?

Understanding Cancer Metastasis: Unmasking A Killer

We continue with understanding how metastasis occurs in its transformations in the body.

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory: A Computer Model Of The Entire World 2

We continue with FuturICT's Living Earth Simulator.

Understanding Cancer Metastasis 2

This is a continuation of an explanation of cancer metastasis.

Understanding Cancer Metastasis 1

A cancer cell is a pale cast of  thought, pregnant with desire,  packed with motive and reasoning  more murderous then all ill-intent!

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory: A Computer Model Of The Entire World 1

A knowledge accelerator turning massiva data into knowledge and technological progress called the Living Earth Platform?  This is the plan of FutureICT's Dirk Helbing.

Culturomics: Time Wave Zero, Web bot & Predictions 3b

How does Web bot stand up against the now more well known and government funded Culturomics?

Culturomics: Time Wave Zero, Web Bot & Predictions 3a

Terrence McKenna's Time Wave Zero, and the Web bot - were they precursors to Culturomics?