Cloak of Silence on the way. Spacesuit of the Future. “Nanopaper” stronger than steel. How to build a quantum eavesdropper. DARPA wants blob bots.
Author Archives: sysop
Five for the Future
Bigelow Plans Private Habitable Space Station by 2010 The Participatory Decepticon Sonic bowel disruptor weapon dispelled Space station could beam quantum codes by 2014 Response to IEET Spectrum piece “Rupturing the Nanotech Rapture”
End of the Week, End of the World
In Eclipse Phase, climate change has already taken its toll on Earth by the time the singularity hits, but the planet is far from destroyed. There are many singularitarians who look forward to an emerging AI as a way to help solve the crisis. But over at World Changing, Karl Schroeder argues that environmental devastation …
Singularity Special Report
IEEE Spectrum recently published a special report on the singularity. It’s well worth reading, particularly “The Consciousness Conundrum” and “Economics of the Singularity.”
Five for the Future
Hairy Blobs Discovered in Acidic Lake Could Have Lived on Mars ‘Skin-tenna’ wireless signals creep over human skin Giant telescopes (and igloos) could be built from Moon dust ParanoidLinux Escaping From Doctorow Book ‘Little Brother’ Researchers develop wall-climbing robots