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Of course this won't happen, which to me boggles the mind, as the boon to the economy and the world would be tremendous.

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Yes, I was beginning to think it was only my blog that was getting this. I'm now getting 4 or 5 spams on my comments every day.

I think another soon-to-be application is when you are on road trips, and as you take pictures during the trip you can just hit the download key, and it immediatley upload the pics to your car PC, which also just got released from Xenarc Technologies.

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When I was in physics college back in the 80's my professor wrote a computer program in which he plugged in all of his students class hours, and with a few seconds the program would generate his office hours precisely when his students would be least likely to be able to attend without missing their other classes. I actually saw him plug this data in his computer and laugh. Planet P Blog

I suggest you see this movie again. The Architect scene alone was the most mind-blowing thing I've seen on celluloid in at least 10 years.

After reading the reviews I was expecting a mediocre film. Boy were they wrong! This file surpasses the original in several ways, especially in the cerbreal mind-bening part. For those who didn't get all the radical and profound implications, please don't trash the film becaus you lack sufficient intelligence to comprehend it.

I'm giving it a 10/10.

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People forget that although the constitution is now more than two hundred years old, most of the constitional rights that are now under threat are no more than a few decades old (being the results of relatively recent Supreme Court rulings).

Excuse me. What planet have you been sleeping on? Since 1995 and especially since 9/11, more the half of the Bill of Rights has been eroded. The first ammedment has been under constant attack - DMCA, right of association = suspicion. Third Ammendment and the overturning of the Posse Cumatatus Act. The Fourth Ammednment is completely gone. It started to dissappear under the drug war, and completely dissappeared under the US PATRIOT Act. The 5th, 6th and 7th ammendments, right to a speedy trial, writ of habeus corpus, secret arrests, camp x-ray, indefinite detentions, lack of attorney-client confidentiality. And the 10th ammendment where federal law continues to usurp state ammendments.

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I know what I am about to write is radical, but please give it some thought before rendering an opinion on it. It's not exactly technological speculation as it is philosophical speculation on the ultimate limits (if there are any) of the technological metaphor.

Up to this point in nearly all discussions of extreme/speculative tech what we are trying to do is maximally stretch our imagination as to what is possible within the realm of currently known scientific law. And for those of us who've been frequenting transhumanist circles for any period of time, we know the current limits of science portend a lot - uploading, indefinite lifespans, traversible wormholes, jupiter brains, basement universes, etc.

Now lets assume that our current understanding of the known laws of physics are invariable. Lets assume that the Grand Unified Theory really is the grand theory they claim it to be.

I have been engaging in some discussion lately about the begining of the universe, and for the first time (amazingly enough) I pushed the 'Where did it come from' question through as far as it can go. And, not surprisingly, it doesn't go anywhere. No matter how you try to explain the origin of the universe, none of the theories can account for the cause of it. What caused the big bang? Where did 'God' come from? etc.

From this, i concluded that there cannot be a begining. If there was a begining, then something must have caused that begining, and so something was there before the begining.

This doesn't answer anything, but I am yet to see another way around the causality problem (defining something as 'acausal' doesn't solve it, it just dodges it).

Now, linked to this 'where did the universe come from?' problem is, 'Where did the incredible laws, which make our universe a coherent place come from?', which is what I think underlies it all. Once the universe began, it is easy to say 'the laws guided the evolution of everything from there'....but how did the laws come to be? Why are they so perfect? (weak anthropic principle could be an acceptable argument here).

When you think of an omniverse that has no beginning, then we are talking about something that is temporally at least infinite in duration, something ultimately beyond time itself, where concepts of a beginning and an end have no meaning. I think what this also means is that any one set of properties/laws we experience are also ultimately entirely arbitrary. If they are not then we must ask ourselves what meta-laws are behind it governing what types of laws are allowed and which are not? And then we have to ask ourselves where did these metalaws come from? And then meta-meta-laws and so on to infinity. And, not surprisingly, it doesn't go anywhere. No matter how you try to explain the origin of any laws, none of the theories can account for the cause of those laws. From this, I concluded there can be no fundamental laws.

So if there are no fundamental laws, no limts, then everything is possible. If not, why not? And we are right back to an arbitray set of laws with no explanation. And since we are used to applying the metaphor of technology to such things, we could (at least for fun) call such tech based on a lack of laws nada-technology or onto-technology. The technology of reality itself. I like to call it nadatech becuase ulitimatly it's based on nothing... no laws, no limits, nothing at all.

So what do we do with nada- or onto-technology?

Anything. Everything.

Either way, the ultimate lack of any fundamental laws implies that everything is possible and probably already exists exists in a timeless standing quantum probability wave in eternity.

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Wow, I thought I was reading my own writing. :-)

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Well, nothing like what we have now. Assuming we survive the coming nanotech era, by 2100 computers and human brains will have totally merged. Thought itself will be the computer language of the future. Of course these 'thoughts' will be as far beyond both our current consciousness and computer languages, as we are beyond an insects.

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This article, and Heather MacDonald is so idiotic I'm nearly speechless in responding. As someone who is a strong advocate of accelerating technology, stem-cell research, cloning, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and space colonization, and also PRIVACY protections, I challenge anyone to back-up calling me a luddite. If I oppose the use of nuclear weapons does this also make me a luddite?

This has nothing to do with technology and luddism, this has to do with how this technology is used.

I have only this to say about invasions of privacy. If the government wants to eliminate all privacy, then I demand that it be BOTH WAYS. But when you have a government that is getting increasingly secretive while our lives become less so, then you have a gaping hole for abuse. As David Brin so eloquently shows, only societies that are transparent in every area have a chance of remaining democratic and free. What Heather is suggesting is pure Orwellian Tyranny - nothing more.

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I think this is a cool development of TI, but the real future is software definied radio and the GNU Radio project, which is a general purpose computing device that can operate on any frequency - all determined by software, not hardware.

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I think congress should seriously consider some news laws. If countries want to outsource all of their work to overseas offices. Fine. However by the same token, they should not be allowed to sell back over here, unless they pay a huge tariff, just like any other OVERSEAS company!

Sounds fair to me.

The real sad irony of all of this, as more and more companies resort to cheaper labor overseas, especially highly technical labor, then that means there will be that many previously affluent employees who will not be purchasing and driving the economy. Its a vicious spiral... downwards. Pretty soon, all of these companies, the economy itself will tank, becuase it consists of consumers who can't afford to buy anythign becuase:

1) They were laid off by companies finding cheaper labor overseas.

2) They are those people working overseas only making $.85/hour.

Its one big fucking joke, if the end result wasn't so damn serious - A global Deflationary Depression.

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I'm sorry, but I just don't understand why these companies are continuing to implement Blue Tooth. With the maturity of wi-fi 802.11b, 802.11g, and coming soon UWB, why would anyone choose BlueTooth??? It has inferior bandwidth and inferior range.

Why would I carry around a WDA that has a range of 30 feet if I'm lucky, when I can wear the same thing that has 10 times the range and 10 times the bandwidth?

I think its time that companies who stupidly spent billions on developing BlueTooth humble themselves and realize they made a huge mistake with their investments and move on, rather than try to push this inferior technology onto the market. To bluetooth companies out there - I'm not buying it!

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Larry,

Now that mass-produced carbon nanotubes ) are about to make their debut (supposeldy close to the strongest theoretical limit that a material can be made), any thoughts on how this material could be used to construct a real ring world? I would imagine because of this limitation, albeit great, constructing a ring world in one piece is out of the question.

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Because THEY will be the ones, the corporations, the government and the DOD, who control our indentities. Any digital identity should exist to empower the individual to become a better, more informed customer, not a manipulated consumer.

I highly recommend you read Doc Searles and David Wienbergers views on this to see why any implementation of DigID that is corporate centered rather than individual centered is PURE EVIL, and will be used for all sorts of nefarois things, from total erasure of shopping anonymonity, total profiling, and even BLACKLISTING. This is bad stuff, pure and simple.

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Well first post or not, the whole end-to-end paradigm of the stupid network, is so simple and brilliant with economic abundance and endless innovation for everyone, except the telcos, that the only reasons we are not seeing the benefits is because of corporate welfare and monopoly power being given back to the Telcos. I say get them out of the way by letting them die fast in the free-market. We have everything to gain it. Now if only Michael Powell, FCC head, would get the simple message thru his head.

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I think this Book List is a fabulous idea and I support it 100%. My only concern is something of this magnitude will require a business plan of some sort. Already the server appears to be having problems handing the slashdotting effect. If this project hopes to achieve its true potential its going to need a lot of bandwith and storage capacity, in addition to a lot of open-sourced people power and coordination. At the very least I would expect it would require some people to manage it full-time, who will need monetary compensation for doing so.

Do you have a business plan that will anticipate and manage this growth. I hope so.

Best of luck and success to you.

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No, the entire point of my argument, is I, and I alone am responsible for my security. When security is mandated on myself then it is Tyranny. If I don't want to wear a seatbelt then it is MY LIFE that is at risk, no one elses. Now, if my insurance company wants to charge me more for the increased medical cost resulting from my accident from not wearing a seatbelt - they have that right. But to force me to wear seatbelts - bullshit. Same goes for my bank. Except in this case, if my money is stolen, there is no insurance company thats going to foot the bill. Only I will loose. Therefore, please tell me why I should be FORCED to use Iris scans??

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Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I'll be damned if I submit to biometric identifiers to bank. It is afterall MY bank account that is insecure, not anyone elses, if I decide to remaim with using a so-called less secure PIN method. And only I to blame if someone steals it, which by the way has not happened once in all the years there has been a PIN number. I've been using ATM's since they were first introduced, and not once, have I had any security breach on my accont. Your crazy, if I'm going to let some corporation get their hands on my unique biometric identifiers which they will most likely sell to other companies. Before you know it, my biometric date will be on hundreds of databases outside of my control. My identity, both analog and digital is my own. Period.

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My long-term goal is to be running a fully-realistic, totally customizable and scalable universe with believability passing anything depicted in the matrix - in other words my own play universe. I already calculated that to run a sufficiently realistic emulated 'Earth' with everything simulated, people, plants, trees, mountains, rocks in realistic detail would take at least 10^30 ops/sec. I would certainly need several Zettabytes of memory to run it effectively.

So quite frankly, there is no such thing as too much RAM, Storage or Speed that I could need, assuming the software was developed to utilize it.

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Dear Self,

You are 12 years old now and are starting to feel deeply your own inner voice... listen to it! Your creativity is beginning is beginning to flourish so do anything, everything you can to express yourself. Take chances. Don't do it for anyone else, do it for yourself. And if someone happens to critisize you for having your head in the clouds, or being weird, don't listen to them! Follow this inner muse and you will be richly rewarded with a happy life and lots of money.

Your parents mean well, so try to understand that at least their heart is in the right place. If you strongly disagree with them, I suggest at the vert least you keep reserve that strength for yourself and not for battling your parents. It will only cause both you and them needless amounts of grief. Experiment and get away with what you can, and if you get caught, do your best to at least play the part of the "good son". They don't need to know everything you're up to, because you are a life long quest of exploration and adventure and the fun is only getting started.

Good luck, and may you reach the stars before I do.

You older self,

Paul

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I have onle one doubt - there is still no clear or viable way to mass produce these carbon nanotubes. High Lift Systems is saying that all they need is the funding because the technology already exists. Yet it does not. There are so many technological hurdles required before they could even consider manufacturing a space elevator. Although I am technological optimists, it just seems like they are being a bit fanciful to think that these technical hurdles will be overcome as a matter of course. How do they know? How do we know if there is not some unforseen technical hurdle tha just can't be overcome in any reasonable time - think fusion.

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Hi Susano,

Do I know you? Am I correct in assuming you are a transhumanist? If so, cool. I read a couple of your comments and saw other threads regarding terraforming and of course I also agree that in less than 100 years, the real game will be entirely post - biological in nature.

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Seriously, though, if "life" is just the mindless expansion of a system to fill every niche, then terraforming is neither "good" nor "bad"--it just is.

I'm not sure how you concluded from my thesis that I think life is some kind of mindless cancerous growth that just keeps going. Instead I think life, and more importantly complex life, and even more importantly the emergence of complex consciousness - love, music, beauty, culture IS what it's all about. If you disagree, then you see no difference between hydrogen and life. That is your perogative. But as an intelligent and most grateful complex lifeform, I declare thru choice, that life and consciousness is important, and therefore support any expansion of both at the harm of no other. That is my ethic, that is my choice, and I feel it in my bones (even dogmatically), that its the one and probably only precept that I am not flexible on. If I was, then life is meaningless, and can see no reason why you, me or anyone else should do anything at all (i.e why life at all then?).

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Ok,

Here is why Terraforming is good. It turns an otherwise dead planet into a living one. Think beyond us mere humans, and thing of life as a whole and what it has done since its beginnings billions of years ago - life expands to fill every available niche. Life has expanded and become the massive and complex biosphere that it is today. Life has also experienced numerous near total extinction on numerous occasions. Life has now finally gained the capability of leaving its womb planet and expanding outwards to other worlds.

Of course we are talking about life expanding onto other worlds as long as there is no pre-existing life, especially complex life there already. As long as Terraforming meets those ethical requirments I have yet to hear a single reason not to terraform. After all we are only talking about the perpetuation of life itself. I almost would be bold enough to say, "that if you are against terraforming, then you are basically against life itself".

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Sure it is. Its completely feasible, just not politically viable in the current pork barrel climate. Please re-read my post for clarification. I'm all for sending unmanned probes into space to further our scientific knowledge. But going their first hand is what it's all about. That is what drives peoples spirit. Thats why motivated nearly all of space development from Goddard to Von Braun. Wilbur and Wright didn't invent the airplane so it could fly unmanned. The whole point - is going up there ourselves! Star Trek, Star Wars, they are both popular because people are travelling in space. Thats where the freedom lies, no matter what the costs.

The good news: we can get there cheap. The coming economics of afordable space travel will inevitably lead us there. Politics can only hold back this spirit for so long. Bring on the carbon nanotubes!

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The answer has been staring us in the face for decades - Price. If we make space access cheap, the rest will follow. What we have done up to this point, is basic feasability testing. Enough already! We know its feasible. There are thousands upon thousands of amzing engineering papers that have been published that will revolutionize space travel and habitation. The one thing, the ONLY thing keeping it from happening, is the cost per pound to orbit.

And the sad part is, there are hundreds of designs that could and would reduce the cost to orbit from its exorbitant $10,000/lb to less than $100/lb. But you know what? All of the aerospace contractors have lobbied for years for these advances to be underfunded, never considered, or just plain cancelled.

I agree with the Cliff, I'm pinning all of my space dreams and hopes on the advent of mass-produced carbon nanotubes. Once they become available, the entire economics of space will change radically. Finally, it will make economic sense for even the most conservative corporations to invest in space industrialization.

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What would Emperor Norton do?

Emperor Norton would finance his own movie using his own minted cash, playing himself as the star, but in this case, protector of the federation, and emperor of Orion, or some such. And he would very likely make it a better film than Nemesis.

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Your absolutely right. And the 'Inner Light' was probably the very best Start Trek episode, certainly my personal favorite.

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Manned Space Travel is worth every risk! Sure the science they are doing might seem trivial, but just having people in space is absolutely necessary for our survival. As Konstantin Tsiolkovsky said:

We cannot remain in the cradle forever

We must continue to explore space, to push the envelop. Sure space travel is still dangerous, but every astronaut tooks those risks gladly and with with dignity and honor. Don't let them die in vain. If they were alive today they would urge us to continue this nobelest of pursuits - the inexorable drive of live to expand.

Manned space travel is the greatest adventure we can possibly make and it is worth every risk. In the scheme of things, the current survival rate and safety ratings of space travel is light years ahead of where it was a short 30 years ago.

And with nanotech materials on their way, space travel is only going to get cheaper, safer and more profound in everyway.

My hear goes out to the families, and with them I say we keep moving forward.

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Wow, I posted about Iain Bank early on in this story, see above. But I thought I'd mention it again here. I would love to do more with the site, but I just don't have the time. Here it is, Culture Shock

Xeger - Nice comprehensive overview of Banks by the Way!

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Banks isn't entirely new, but he remains largely and undeservedly undiscovered. You can read all about him on my Iain Banks website.

I would also say that if you have not already read Greg Egan, especially his book, Diaspora, do so. This is first-rank hard sf at its best!

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Hmmm. Ok, how about trademark? Either way, the bottom line question is, do we not have the right to own ourselves? This would include everything that makes us unique? And if we are not allowed to own ourselves, then who owns us? And if nobody can own us, does that mean we are all in the public domain? These are all interesting questions, that I have never thought to ask before.

My personal feeling, is we do own ourselves, and that means we should be allowed the protections that comes along with such ownership. Much of what makes us us, is our unique information. Quite frankly such a perspective is as valid, if not more valid than all of the other bs that passes for intellectual property these days. If someone can own an "idea", then it would seem even more logical that they can own themselves.

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Yes, if we rely on existing technologies and their efficiencies there will be a windfall. I can see two things that will necessary to make a Solar-Hydrogen Economy work:

1) Greater Efficiencies - if we can achieve even an efficiency approaching 70%, the amount of power generated on roof-tops alone would supply most of the needs of the home and even the hydrogen fuel for the family vehical(s).

2) Solar Power Satellites. The energy demand over the coming years is going to increase substantially. There will come a point, that the economic incentives of SPS and cheap access to space will play on each other and make SPS a viable source of energy. This will have the added benefit of substantially reducing the cost to get into space, finally opening up the space frontier for everyone who wants to go.

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I don't get a shift feelign at all. We are already direly close to Hubbert Peak, when oil demand starts to outstrip production. In fact Hubbert, himself an oil man, said that Hubbert Peak, even considering undiscoverd reserves (which is fairly predictable with satellite reconaissance) will come sometime between 2002-2009.

You can read about here on my website for more info. Some in the oil industry are thinking that peak will be hit within the next two years. This might explain our rush to invade Iraq.

Either way, as oil reserve dwindle and demand goes up, it will create a highly destabilized politic - and if you think the repression we've all been feeling lately is bad, it will only get worse... UNLESS:

We wean ourselves (QUICKLY!) off of Oil. The Hydrogen economy is just waiting in the wings. All of the technology is essentially there. The cost factors will become not only competitive, but cheaper and cleaner than oil, once we start migrating our energy infrastructure over to Hydrogen.
Lets hope this happens before we end up in some kind of nigthmarish Oil Fedual/Fascist Global New World Order.

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I have know about this company for years. Lumeloid Solutions claims their technology is theoretically capable of efficiencies of up to 80%.

Also there was a story about 2 weeks ago, mentioning solar energy breakthrough using full-spectrum layering. Does anyone know anymore about this. I was unable to find it in Google News.

Nanotech material, once they arrive, will of course make 90% efficient material practical.

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I can see why you went with being an AG. Name calling is unneccessary. But in answer to your post:

This technology is not still-to-be developed, it is developed. And regardless of the economy, this technology is so superior to existing digital cameras, that a bad economony would only further motivate a camera company to integrate this technology into their product line, as it would make them more competitive in a harsh market.

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The X3 announcement came out almost a year ago, and still their is only one, ONE camera that has this technology. If its so superior (which is it by the way!) then why the hell hasn't this thing been flooding the market? It defies description.

In fact, earlier this year the announcment was that we should see several cameras with X3 technology on the store shelves in time for Christmas. What happened?

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Although its comendable that Steve is challenging Microsoft on some key applications, I have come to expect more from Apple on the hardware end. There are three things that have made Apple shine this past year - OSX, 23" flat-screens, and the I-pod.

I was really hoping to see some disruptive entry in the hardware arena - a video i-pod, or a wi-fi pda or something. Oh well.

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The only place that I might be enticed to micropay for anything is compelling content, especially knowing that money is going into the hand of the aritst/writer/creator that provides it, and the payment is reasobable.

But paying for the amount of bandwith I use? Perposterous! We already pay way to much for broadband access as it is, and most of us have had our bandwitdth seriously capped in the last year. And in large part this expensive capped service exists because we lacks serious competition in broadband.

Compare our prices to Asia and it will make you weep:

Japan: $11/month gets you 11 megabits/sec

Korea: $25/month gets you 100 megabits/sec!

And these are flat rates!

**The capacity and growth of actual bandwith has far exceeded the exponential of processor speed. The current pricing structure in the US is Greed, pure and simple from Dinosaurs trying to hold onto power by enforcing artificial scarcity.

I highly recomment everyone read Support Telcoms Fast Failure

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Reminds me of that Star Trek episode The Chase, in which Dr. Galen, Captain Picards old Archaeology professor, found genetic data-blocks from various species around the galaxy stored in the junk portion of each species DNA, including our own. When a sufficient number of these data blocks were put together it completed a stellar map, identifying the precise location of the original origin of life on out planet and countless others. The jury is still out on the Panspermia Theory, but my own hunch is that there is lots of intelligence out there vastly older and greater than we are.

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I'm afraid you are mistaken my /. friend. You are forgetting one very important thing:

Nanotech will bring in the next 10 years - mass produced carbon nanotubes.

This advance alone will revolution industrial design more than anything in the last 200 years. Among the wonder made feasible and affordable by carbon nanotubes are very cheap access to space with not only very lightweight (read cheap $/lb to orbit), but novel structures like Space Elevators.

As far as morphing into any shape - disputing this means you also dispute that molecular assemblers are also impossible or at best very difficult in the next century. Do not forget Moores law, and that we can expect computers on the desktop running at Petaflops within 20 years. That kind of computer power will allow us to make incredible strides in protien folding and subsequently molecular manufacturing.

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Your are right, the brain is not a digital device, but that does not mean that we can take all of its analog-mechanical/neuro-molecular/neurotransmitter functioning and improve on it. In fact, much of the functional at the axonic/dendritic level is a horrible waste of space, so the same processes can be carried out (analog of course) in a much more compact space (at least a 1000 fold decrease in size) - meaning that we can either have an equivalent brain 1000th the size or a brain with 1000 times more capacity (volume) that takes up the same space now. And did I forget to mention that those neurotransmitter processes are complex information pathways - and they can be digitized. This means that along with our 1000x capacity brains, we can have a 10^6 improvement in speed.

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I think the real question is what will we look like in 100 years? Assuming we are able to ride the accelerating technological curve into utopia instead of oblivion, in less than 100 years we are likely going to gain the ability to morph into almost any imaginable shape and/or becoming uploads traversing the universe.

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Ok, I've been annoyed for years at the disparity between corporations and customers in who knows what about who. I think its time someone came up with a P2p, open source, reputation system in which we can turn the lens of datamining back on them. Technologies like Cuejack combined with the efforts of groups like Transparency International, can help bring about Participitory Capitalism.

Power to the people!

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I know this sounds totally crazy, but I have vivid memories of being born, and the first few days in the hospital before they let me go home. According to my mom, I have always had an unusually sharp memory of my early childhood. I have lots and lots of memories of events that took place in the first two years of my life.

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I'll take a serioud crack at your question.

If are considering text only, then the Library of Congress is aproximately 100 Terabytes. We can call this unit measurement 1 LCT (Library of Congress Text)

If we add images that are in these books, as well as their map collection, then we are up past a Petabyte (1000 Terabytes). We can call this unit 1 LC (Library of Congress - ALL).

Question: The trend unit is "how many equivalents of library of congress" does it hold?

Answer: Each of these new discs has a storage capactiy of 0.015 LCT, or 0.0015 LC.

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Hi,

Actually, prime numbers just got easier to find, making practical very strong cryptography that much more practical.

BTW, I liked your other post, especially about the disruptive technologies and the showdown between them and TIA, Big Brother, etc.

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Huh? If you read my original post, you will see that this n-variable artifical life algrothim has already been implemented in the long line of SIMS Games since 1989. My only complaint is that these same algorithms have not been applied to adventure games. When I say nearly unlimted I am referring specifically to the number of outcomes, just like chess. You can buy a computerized chess game for $19.95 and it has 10^81 possible outcomes. The same goes for most of the SIMS games. And there is no single compelling reason why this cannot be applied to adventure games. Its no longer the technical challenge to make this game - only a temporal and financial one.

Please read my original post and complains about why computer games suck, before critisizing any of my comments. I appreciate your criticism, but I'd like all the more if it were more informed.

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