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WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE. "We stand at the threshold of a new renaissance in science and technology, based on a comprehensive understanding of the structure and behavior of matter from the nanoscale up to the most complex system yet discovered, the human brain." https://lnkd.in/enuj488 View in LinkedIn

PRIORITY: "“The Human Cognome Project,” a multidisciplinary effort to understand the structure, functions, and potential enhancement of the human mind. Other priority areas are: personal sensory device interfaces; enriched community through humanized technology; learning how to learn; and enhanced tools for creativity." https://lnkd.in/enuj488 View in LinkedIn

PAYOFFS: "improving work efficiency and learning, enhancing individual sensory and cognitive capabilities, revolutionary changes in healthcare, improving both individual and group creativity, highly effective communication techniques including brain-to-brain interaction, perfecting human- machine interfaces including neuromorphic engineering, sustainable and “intelligent” environments including neuro-ergonomics," and diminishing effects of aging. https://lnkd.in/enuj488 View in LinkedIn

NANO KEY. "Convergence of diverse technologies is based on material unity at the nanoscale and on technology integration from that scale. The building blocks of matter that are fundamental to all sciences originate at the nanoscale. Revolutionary advances at the interfaces between previously separate fields of science and technology are ready to create key transforming tools for NBIC technologies." https://lnkd.in/enuj488 View in LinkedIn

CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES of the big four, namely, nano-bio-info-cogno (NBIC). "In the early decades of the 21 century, concentrated efforts can unify science based on the unity of nature, thereby advancing the combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and new technologies based in cognitive science." https://lnkd.in/enuj488 View in LinkedIn

TECH REVOLUTION BY SYNERGY. "It’s not just because biological sciences have advanced to a new level that we are making these discoveries. The convergence and synergies of several broad technologies—particularly nano, bio, IT, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, new materials, and robotics—is what makes this technology revolution different." https://lnkd.in/eV3W-VD View in LinkedIn

RAY KURZWEIL, author of The Singularity Is Near: "By understanding the information processes underlying life, we are starting to learn to reprogram our biology to achieve the virtual elimination of disease, dramatic expansion of human potential, and radical life extension.” https://lnkd.in/eV3W-VD View in LinkedIn

CAN MICROBES DRIVE SEARCH ENGINES? A sensor chip controlled by a living slime mould, for sensing, control and computation. Emergence of bio-hybrid systems is just starting. Imagine what swarm thinking microbes may want to ask a search engine. Or an octopus. https://lnkd.in/eUarvqi View in LinkedIn

UNCERTAINTY REMAINS. The experiment to confirm space-crystals could take "Somewhere between three to infinity years." http://www.wired.com/2013/04/time-crystals/ View in LinkedIn

FUTURE OF BIOINTELLIGENCE. " By around the middle of the 21st century, humans will be able to reverse-engineer our brains. Organic robots will begin to scan, digitise and "upload" ourselves into a less perishable substrate. The distinction between biological and nonbiological machines will effectively disappear. Digital immortality beckons: a true "rupture in the fabric of history"." https://lnkd.in/e3qEhDU View in LinkedIn