Posts Tagged ‘videos’

Foresight Links for Apr 4, 6:00 am

// April 4th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Foresight

  • Innovation: Water Leak Digital Alarm, Team @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
    You have a smoke alarm, right? And maybe even a burglar alarm. But do you have a water alarm? Probably not. The Water Leak Alarm is ready to join the bevvy of paranoia-salving gadgets in your home….
  • iMobot – The Robotic Snake, Team @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
    A University of California Davis spinoff is commercializing a modular robot that will let robotics researchers study fields like robot AI, biomimetics, and robot collaboration without having to build the hardware. Barobo’s iMobot, developed by Graham …
  • An experiential scenario for post-revolution Tunisia, stuart candy @ the sceptical futuryst:
    N.B. Not an April Fool’s Day gag. Just, y’know, to be clear.Image via TuniscopeOverthrowing a dictatorial regime is a staggering feat of popular imagination and courage….
  • Immersive Gaming – iPhone + Laser Pico Projector, Michael Anissimov @ Accelerating Future:
    I thought this was interesting. From May 2010.
  • The Perfect Storm and Black Swan Theory, Team @ plausible futures:
    The BP oil crisis in the Mexican gulf, deadly heat waves in Russia, earthquakes in Haiti (7.0 Mw) and Chile (8.8 Mw) and flooding in Australia caused almost 300.000 deaths from natural disasters in 2010 (1). A few months into 2011 New Zealand is hit by……

Foresight Links for Feb 28, 6:00 am

// February 28th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Foresight

  • Michio Kaku on 2013 Solar Maximum: “It Would Paralyze the Planet Earth”, Michael Anissimov @ Accelerating Future:
    Maybe it’s nothing at all! Maybe. Still, I have enough room in my thoughts to consider this, even if the probability is low. I don’t think anyone has the expertise to say for sure one way or the other. A real analysis would involve probability distributions over solar energy flux …
  • Cosmic Snow Storm Observed, Janice Karin @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s EPOXI mission recently observed a cosmic snow storm originating from the comet Hartley 2. Consisting of both ice particles spewing from the ends of the comet and water vapor escaping from the middle o…
  • Future News – February 25, 2011, Rick Schettino @ FutureTimes.net – The Future News Archive:
    3D bio-printers to print skin and body parts (video) Scientists make transgenic fungus to fight malaria Scientists Say Newborn Mice Can Regrow Damaged Hearts Watch the Bipedal Robot Marathon Live Feb 24-27th! (videos) Microsoft Kinect-powered robot to…
  • Aging Portfolio.org, Michael Anissimov @ Accelerating Future:
    About: The International Aging Research Portfolio (IARP) is an independent non-profit initiative serving the aging research community, academic, corporate, patient advocacy and charitable funding organizations worldwide. The AgingPortfolio.Org system is a flexible and highly scalable knowledge management system developed to enable funding organizations to collaborate, track, analyze, structure, make …
  • Elderly Can See Longer with NeoVista, Ehud Rattner @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
    NeoVista, based in California, is investigating a new treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a medical condition usually found in older adults that results in a loss of vision. Although there are treatments for this ailment, they are inv…

Foresight Links for Feb 14, 6:00 am

// February 14th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Foresight

  • Any Animals Qualify For Personhood Status?, Randall Parker @ FuturePundit:
    A view which I see as completely wrong: The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) is committed to the idea that some non-human animals meet the criteria of legal personhood and thus are deserving of specific rights and protections. My t…
  • Confirmed: Key Anonymous Activities Masterminded by Small Groups of Decision-Makers, Michael Anissimov @ Accelerating Future:
    In a recent post (December) I made on Anonymous, commenter “mightygoose” said: i would agree with matt, having delved into various IRC channels and metaphorically walked among anonymous,i would say that they are fully aware that they have no head, no leadership, and while you can lambast their efforts as …
  • Anders Sandberg on “AI: Predictably Unpredictable”, Michael Anissimov @ Accelerating Future:
    From UK H+ 2011. Nice to see transhumanism doing well in the UK. Anders sports his cryonics necklace on the outside… classy.
  • Anna Salamon at UKH+: Survival in the Margins of the Singularity?, Michael Anissimov @ Accelerating Future:
    Anna Salamon is a Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Her work centers on analytical modeling of artificial intelligence risks, probabilistic forecasting, and strategies for human survival. Previously, she conducted machine learning research at NASA Ames, and applied mathematics research at the Rohwer Phage Metagenomics lab. This …
  • Social Networks Predict Disease Spread, Janice Karin @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
    Scientists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and The University of California at San Diego determined a method of predicting the spread of contagious diseases using social networking theories. Utilizing the friendship paradox – the idea…