Archive for 'Science & Technology'
3D Manufacture in Space
It has been possible for years now to do 3D design, 3D prototyping, and more recently 3D manufacture or 3D printing of more and more complex objects. Increasingly this kind of work can be done using small machines, even desktop machines. This past summer I heard about a project to extend the concept of 3D [...]
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Singularity Summit
Might be worth attending the Singularity Summit in New York Oct. 15-16, 2011, if you are around the city. Looks like a good program, hope to attend myself as I will be traveling on the East Coast then.
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Future of transportation – driverless pods at Heathrow
Personal Rapid Transit systems have been on the drawing boards for ages. Call up a small, personal, driverless, autonomous vehicle, program your destination, get in and off you go. Prototypes have been built but such systems have generally not gotten off the drawing board. Until now at Heathrow airport in the UK. Yes, the destinations [...]
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Colonizing Space and Yesterday’s Dreams
I grew up on this stuff. In the 1970′s some at NASA believed it may be realistic to be building colonies in orbit of up to 10,000 people, by…about now. It may have been, had we really wanted to. The original dreams came from the work of Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, and his book High [...]
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Virtual and Augmented Reality Animations
Duff Hendrickson is an old friend who creates animations and scenes for virtual worlds. This is a new demo reel of work made mostly for scientists. Fun to watch this weekend.
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Significant 2011 Medical Breakthroughs
This year the world of medicine is reporting several big developments and research progress. The University of Louisville is home to the surgeons that performed the first prosthetic bypass graft with the patient’s own stem cells. Although this idea has been around for a while, the ability to utilize this procedure in the operating room [...]
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A Post-PC Era? PC’s still in the future.
IBM CTO Mark Dean, who was one of the designers of the first IBM PC that debuted in 1981, weighed in recently on whether we are entering a “post-PC” era in which tablets and phones replace PC’s. That meme is exaggerated, but Dean does suggest that computing itself is in transition… PCs are being replaced [...]
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Are you an alien – DNA building-blocks from space found in meteorites
NASA recently reported that scientists have identified nucleobases that make up our genetic code in meteorites and that it appears they were created in space. It has been theorized that life may have actually migrated to Earth rather than spontaneously appearing here, and this kind of discovery supports that possibility. Popular Science has a nice [...]
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The Impending Dominance of the Electric Car
On May 4th I had the pleasure of attending a Washington Clean Technology Alliance (WCTA) Lunch Seminar to hear James Billmaier, author of JOLT! The Impending Dominance of the Electric Car and Why America Must Take Charge. After listening to Jim speak, I was fully convinced that America will soon become an “electriconomy” as he [...]
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The Future of Music
I recently had the opportunity to interview musician Amanda Ray about her experiences and goals. She is an impressive artist with a great outlook on the future of music and positive change. She has recently written Surraeon, a sci-fi story that is currently under development as a musical album and as a film. The full [...]
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