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Top five terrifying future technologies. Scary future scenarios.Five Scary Future Scenarios

Please do not get the impression that I am using the popular media trend of fear-mongering to try and rally you into a global fight against the evils of technology. I will probably take a nap after this.

It's just that I have a terrible habit of looking forward to a brighter side of the future. So to be fair, I offer you five future technologies that might wipe out humanity (or change it dramatically). Have a great day! Five Terrifying Future Technologies (Flash)

GMO Foods

Nanotubes have slipped into my sunscreen with the stealth of a cloned kitten. Why are products that use nano or bio technologies not clearly labeled?

Labeling the Future

Technology and society

Some of the smartest individuals I know, suddenly remember their kids have soccer practice when I mention the latest tech breakthrough.
Future Technology and Society

They're Just Not That Into Us

Search for extraterrestrials, ET.

SETI projects have scanned the sky for over 40 years looking for an intelligent signal. Could our level of intelligence be unique in the universe? Intelligent life

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Wealthy, Healthy and Wise

Transhuman, transhumanity,posthuman,posthumanity

When they first hit the market, future technologies like memory implants and longevity drugs, may only be affordable to a small percent of the population. What scenarios could lead to human enhancement technologies for all? Transhumanity

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Homework help. Science, biotechnology, chemistry, physics and more

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Nanotechnology risks

Ready or not, here it comes. In the next 20 years, nanotechnology will touch the life of nearly every person on the planet. The potential benefits are mind boggling and brain enhancing. But like many of the great advancements in earth's history, it is not without risk. Here are some of the risks posed to society by nanotech.

Nanotechnology risks

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Smart Homes

Smart Homes

My home is not very smart. It does not know when to start my coffee or how to clean the floor. It has difficulty distinguishing between a roaring grease fire and a steamy shower, which makes it a good thing it can't remember the number to call in an emergency. What can we expect to experience in the smart home of the future? Smart Home

Approaching the Singularity

the singularity

Surfing the web for The Singularity gives me a gnarly headache. No doubt a reaction to asking my brain to find ways of replacing itself. Both intriguing and frightening, my approach to the Singularity is to treat it like a dessert tray--the further it is away, the less I am infatuated by it. The Singularity

Human Like Robots

girl robot life like robot

A life-like robot girl greets visitors at a world expo. To make it easier for us to warm up to a cold machine, future robots will look, feel and act more human. Robotics

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02.02.12 -

Bird flu: Five mutations away from becoming transmissible between humans - NSF audio
Image of Saturn and moon Dione from Cassini spacecraft - NASA
Scientists turn skin cells into neural precursors, bypassing stem-cell stage - Stanford School of Medicine
Making Nature's Best Better to Produce Biofuels - NSF
On sale, smart pill with edible microchip - MailOnline
Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think - Forbes
Alchemy of Change - Technology is today's alchemy. As its stewards, we have a solemn duty to use this awesome power responsibly.

01.31.12 -

Phase-change materials can fix machine memory crunch - New Scientist
Surveillance video becomes a tool for studying customer behavior - KurzweilAi.net
Scientists create first free-standing 3D cloak - IOP
Private Snoops Find GPS Trail Legal to Follow - The New York Times

01.30.12 -

Electronic Tattoo Monitors Brain, Heart and Muscles - NSF video
The Science of Antiaging - Science chat transcript
Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones - Forbes

01.27.12 -

Google announces privacy changes across products; users can't opt out - The Washington Post
With Prevalence of Nanomaterials Rising, Panel Urges Review of Risks - NY Times
Commercial Version of the MIT Media Lab CityCar Unveiled - MIT Media Lab
Toyota unveils health-care robots - CBC News
Seeing through walls - MIT's Lincoln Laboratory video on youTube
Tracking heart rate in real time on a smartphone - youTube video
CO2 levels soared in 2010 - CBC News

01.26.12 -

One of the researchers, Dr James Kirkland, said: "I've never seen anything quite like it." - Signs of ageing halted in the lab - BBC News

01.26.12 -

"A year ago, he says, it cost about $30,000 to sequence a person's entire DNA. Today, that number's down to $4,000. Sundquist believes researchers eventually will sequence everyone on earth and make that data part of each person's medical record." - from Google strikes deal to preserve DNA data online - PhysOrg

01.25.12 -

Young Adults Responded Well to Swine Flu - NSF
Technology May Soon Turn Thoughts Into Action - NSF
Tiny magnetically-levitated robots could change the game for robotics - Gizmag

01.21.12 -

Clues in DNA reveal how long you'll live - and they can be read when you're a baby - MailOnline
Implanted biofuel cell converts bug's chemistry into electricity: Scientists take step toward cyborgs - PhysOrg
Computer could act as doctor's assistant - CBC News
NIH scientists identify novel approach to view inner workings of viruses - NIH
Synthetic Windpipe Is Used to Replace Cancerous One - The New York Times
Google Science Fair - Google

01.20.12 -

The vibration-sensing, head-tracking Fit Freeway "exergaming" app - Gizmag
Surgical robots - The Economist
Cold Fusion: NASA Says Nothing Useful - Forbes

01.19.12 -

Yesterday, Wikipedia withheld the free flow of information, to protest a bill that might withhold the free flow of information (SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act).

While confused by Wikipedia's actions, it was a wake up call for me. I know now, that I can not count on access to the 'free flow' information on the internet. Not so long as public information can be withheld as a political (or other) weapon. Maybe the 'Cloud' is not such a great idea after all.

I found Google's actions, a blackout of their logo, to be a proper protest that didn't make thousands of students dig out their grandparent's old encyclopedia book set.

SOPA is a bad bill. Wikipedia's one-day blackout was a glimpse of the near future. When the flow of information will be even more vital, and may be used as a tool to control the public. -ffa

01.18.12 -

New Report Outlines Trends in U.S. Global Competitiveness in Science and Technology - NSF
When Breakthroughs Begin at Home - NY Times
Preview of Tomorrow's Wearable Computers - Technology Review
Augmented-reality windshields and the future of driving - CNN
Join the hunt for planets - PlanetHunters.org
Take a tour of the virtual future - Stanford
Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now - BBC

01.12.12 -

ATP-detecting nanosensors could help reduce laboratory animal testing - Gizmag
$10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE - Build the first Star Trek tricorder and win

01.11.12 -

New App Helps NASA Keep Track of Meteoroids - NASA
Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second - MIT YouTube video
Forget 3D, here comes the QD TV - Telegraph

01.10.12 -

I'm a french expert in AI (I wrote "expert system" article in Wikipedia). In your multiple definitions (Quantum, DNA, optical, ...) it lacks the most certain and the most futurist computer : the invisible computer. With AI, computer comunicates with user by voice (like Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey) or by mental waves. By voice, you need only one microphone and one speaker per room of the house. The computer is hidden in a closet. I inform you that today a computer can talk at length with its users, write programs for them (better and faster than developers), learn users knowledge, control it, teach it and even tell you if their ideas are good!. Thanks to automated reasoning.

01.10.12 -

QuizFactor - new educational quiz website

01.09.12 -

Photoacoustic Device Finds Cancer Cells Before They Become Tumors - Vimeo video
Duolingo - Learn a language for free, and simultaneously translate the Web

01.05.12 -

Could Robots, Humans Live Side-by-Side? - Yahoo News video
Are You Being Tracked? 8 Ways Your Privacy Is Being Eroded Online and Off - AlterNet
Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future - ITProPortal
Good-bye, Wheelchair, Hello Exoskeleton - IEEE Spectrum
Cubelets! - Youtube video of connectable robots

01.04.12 -

Fountain of youth? - KurzweilAi.net
Jurassic Park scientist aims to hatch a dinosaur using DNA from birds - Daily Mail

01.03.12 -

Your Connected Vehicle Is Arriving - Technology Review
Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away - IEEE Spectrum

 

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