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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

"EXOTIC STRUCTURES known as "space–time crystals" could soon become reality, thanks to research carried out by a collaboration of physicists in the US and China. The researchers, developing an idea put forward by theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, have shown how a crystal made of trapped ions could rotate persistently, even when in its lowest energy state, enabling it to break temporal as well as spatial symmetry." https://lnkd.in/efBJSDx View in LinkedIn

FORGET ROBOTS, "we will soon be fusing technology with living matter." https://lnkd.in/eaT4NUC View in LinkedIn

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN. "An international team of scientists has come up the experimental design of a space-time crystal based on an electric-field ion trap and the Coulomb repulsion of particles that carry the same electrical charge. A space-time crystal, however, has only existed as a concept in the minds of theoretical scientists with no serious idea as to how to actually build one – until now." https://lnkd.in/ea8Mnvh View in LinkedIn

LIFE IS PROGRAMMABLE MATTER. "Humans and all other biological life-forms are machines, which is why bio-engineers conduct bio-engineering." https://lnkd.in/erjUmXN View in LinkedIn