Emma Teling: 2012 bat genome review Preserving eco-diversity and managing climate is definitely top priority and those issues can already be solved with current technology. True, scientific developments will make it easier, but science is not the dominant factor there. Whereas in medicine, science is the only way. In regards to society, think about what [...]
Empathy The brain is made out of same type of neurons that act different. Some of these neurons are so called “mirror neurons” or “ordinary motor command neurons” and are found in the frontal brain or the frontal lobes. These neurons will fire when a person performs a specific action like grabbing something, touching something [...]
Stem cells – a step forward to complete regeneration? Stem cells are a class of undifferentiated cells that are able to differentiate into specialized cell types. This means that at the beginning, all cells were stem cells that became bone cells, skin, blood cells etc… Commonly, stem cells come from two main sources: a. [...]
RAY KURZWEIL When we speak about transhumanism and futurism, we can’t ignore the involvment of Ray Kurzweil, one of the main engines for transhumanism and future science. Raymond “Ray” Kurzweil is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several [...]
HUMANITY TO 0-1 Modern science tries to create virtual models that are reacting like our body. Immagine that we will be able to test drugs, do surgery operations, do brain experiments or other types of experments on a virtual model that works just like our body. In the future, doctors, will be able to test [...]
Prosthetics of the Future Future of nanotechnology is also about prosthetics that replace our body-parts, like our hand, leg, even our eye. We cannot say right now how fast the nanorobotics will progress, but still, we can say that there is no turning back and “what we know, we know!”. All small steps forward are [...]
Sometimes, when loved persons die, we tend to accuse that doctors didn’t know to diagnose them correctly saying they died because of cancer. But are those accusations true or cancer is for real the most dreaded disease today? It looks like millions of people die annually because of this horrible disease so that cancer is [...]
Did you ever wonder what should it be in those little wormies’ mind? Well, you’ll maybe never know, but what you really can do is to control it! How is that possible? Several specialists from Harvard discovered how to control worms’ mind. Assuming that a worm smaller than a pin head has a mind, several [...]
How does future look? What should we expect in our lives? Will we and how will we live from now on? Well… in this new three-part documentary, Dr Michio Kaku, a leading theoretical physicist and futurist, explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond. Well, let’s see what is this all about. Part [...]
FM-2030 on his real name Fereidoun M. Esfandiary lived between October 15, 1930 and July 8, 2000. He was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant. Our world is changing too quickly, we could say. It transforms itself into a brave new age that will impose new values, technologies and lifestyles in this highly [...]
Immortality is within our hands… Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever is a book published in 2004, written by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman. In this book it is talked about the hypothesis that if middle aged people can live long enough, until approximately 120, they will be able to live forever—as humanity [...]
In the coming times, technologies like genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology will revolutionize and transform humanity. A strange new world is unfolding – nightmarish to some, utopian to others. Som believe that soon humanity will have the power to reshape children’s genes, build machines that think and upload humans minds into computers. And Earth [...]