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TECHNOLOGY FUTURE. "China's most recent five-year plan...The plan commits $1 trillion (£640 billion) to strategic sectors such as biotech, nanotech, alternative energy and robotics. This means not only technology acquisition but also commercialisation and strategic leverage. You don't have to invent to innovate and capitalise."" " http://lnkd.in/dCY5_xy View in LinkedIn

INNOVATION ELITE. "The Hybrid Age is being led by elites. Certain technologies are very expensive and give people undue advantages. Cognitive enhancers are ...already being used by soldiers and being further developed in academia. The internet of things and smart cities will be the next big tech wave after the current social media boom that we are going through right now."" " http://lnkd.in/ds9_Spn View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGY PLUS BIOLOGY IN MED. "The multiple biometric devices -- measuring our blood pressure, heart rate, sleep patterns -- that are beginning to take over, are just the first step. Soon we could have sensor-enabled biomedical pills that we swallow and which send us emails. Human machine integrations will be so deep that we will become like cyborgs -- beings that are both biological and artificial."" " http://lnkd.in/ds9_Spn View in LinkedIn

BOLD THINKER. Ayesha Khanna, founder and director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, focused on the co-evolution of humans and technology. She is a Faculty Advisor at Singularity University (a university in Silicon Valley focused on a future when machines outsmart humans), on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifeboat FDN and directs the Future Cities group at the London School of Economics. Khanna discusses the Hybrid Age. " " http://lnkd.in/ds9_Spn View in LinkedIn

CYBERSEX? "Bond wearables let two geographically separated people 'touch' each other." Watch this space. " " http://lnkd.in/dUNVuzH View in LinkedIn

SENSATE FUTURE. "One Trillion Sensors Embedded in Humans and Machines by 2020. In a recent report by IBM it is estimated that the Hybrid Age will see the introduction of one trillion sensors connected to the Internet by 2015; sensors will be part of every technology from automobiles to fashion to eating utensils, you name it. All of this will add huge amounts of data to the world’s storage mediums."" " http://lnkd.in/dTeHnHf View in LinkedIn

ENTERING THE ERA OF TECHNOLOGY. "We're moving beyond the "Information Age" and its conflation of IT with technology itself. Instead, we are entering an era of technology with a big "T" in which various fields, from physics and biology to mathematics and neuroscience, are combining with one another -- and being accelerated by IT -- to produce powerful new offspring."" " http://lnkd.in/dCY5_xy View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO CONFERENCE ON ANTIBIOTICS 2014. "Now, this meeting will explore the significant progress that has been achieved in the intervening 3 years, in synthetic biology as applied in the field of antibiotic production, including the implementation and modification of complex biosynthesis pathway modules, orthologous regulatory circuitry development, new production host development, and awakening sleeping clusters by use of synthetic biology." http://syntheticbio.esf.org/ View in LinkedIn

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION." ""Technological innovation is the main driver of long-term economic growth. Over long time scales, the compound effects of even modest average annual growth are profound. One does not have to embrace any strong form of technological determinism to recognize that technological capability – through its complex interactions with individuals, institutions, cultures, and environment – is a key determinant of the ground rules within which the games of human civilization get played out."" " http://lnkd.in/dQq7GxT View in LinkedIn

IT MERGES WITH BIOLOGY. "The Hybrid Age is the frontier of the Information Age. Our historical eras are additive: look at how so much of the world is just now industrializing! So as information technologies merge with biology, physics, neuroscience and a host of other disciplines, we have to look beyond just IT into what new pattern of socio-technical relations is emerging."" " http://lnkd.in/d2rnJhE View in LinkedIn