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DOMESTICATED FLIES? Flies are generally regarded as vermin and carriers of disease. But this creature is a tiny miracle; its flying capabilities and endurance are superb, and outperforms the vertical takeoff jet fighter. Its perception of odors is advanced. Domesticating this species by engineering, and thought control, to do useful work could provide an agile and versatile servant for humanity. http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2010/11/flexible-wings-driven-simple-oscillation-may-be-viable-efficient-micro-air-vehicles#.Ufuxjdoayc0 View in LinkedIn

Innovation is happening at an exponential growth, can we cope?! http://wp.me/p2EhT0-3 via @wordpressdotcom http://wp.me/p2EhT0-3 View in LinkedIn

RATE OF CHANGE: "The rate of change is accelerating. As inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil notes, “Because of the explosive nature of exponential growth, the twenty-first century will be equivalent to twenty thousand years of progress at today’s rate of progress; about one thousand times greater than the twentieth century.” Source: World Future Society 2013. View in LinkedIn

WE LIVE IN EXCITING TIMES. Somebody has probably documented the increasing rate of societal change and technological innovation." "Barely a day goes by that I am not gob-smacked by some new technology development. Our potential tools today have never been greater for doing both good and harm. View in LinkedIn

"3D Printed Drones Self-Assemble in Flight Formation" "(Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control) A Distributed Flight Array (DFA) set of drone robots has been developed by a team of researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at Zürich university in Switzerland. The DFA is a flying platform consisting of multiple autonomous single propeller vehicles that are able to drive, dock with their peers, and fly in a coordinated fashion. Once in flight the array hovers for a few minutes, then falls back to the ground, only to repeat the cycle again". Ref: 3D printing insider. View in LinkedIn

GENE LIBRARY for species conservation." "" "Cloning Animals is Latest Weapon to Fight Wildlife Extinction | Fox News Latino http://fxn.ws/UJIlfL via @foxnewslatino View in LinkedIn

CLONING FROM DEAD CATTLE: " "" "BBC News - Cattle 'cloned from dead animals' http://bbc.in/ROnLVh View in LinkedIn

CLONING FROZEN MICE. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15111-cloning-resurrects-longdead-mice.html View in LinkedIn

DOG CLONED before death. Nothing new except the human story. " "" "Couple spend $155,000 to clone dead dog - Pets http://lnkd.in/VPyRAv via @todayshow View in LinkedIn

NUMBERS OF SPECIES on this planet I quoted were too low, and only represent those on the IICN Red List which have been actually assessed to date worldwide, out of the millions of species which have not been assessed (Endangered Species International). " "" "Humans driving extinction faster than species can evolve, say experts http://lnkd.in/9EnVTK. View in LinkedIn