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THE LAW OF ACCELERATING RETURNS « KURZWEILKURZWEIL ACCELERATING

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The Law of Accelerating Returns « Kurzweil. An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century —

MAKING HEADLINES

Pictured is an artist’s realistic illustration of the shape of corona-virus. The top stories. Here’s a collection of key stories on the web + in broadcast media — on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) software being used in several ways to take-on the global corona-virus pandemic. The ways AI

CONTACT « KURZWEIL

media + public speaking. speaking requests for Ray Kurzweil — speaking@Kurzweilai.net. WE ARE BECOMING CYBORGS « KURZWEIL We Are Becoming Cyborgs « Kurzweil. The union of human and machine is well on its way. Almost every part of the body can already be enhanced or replaced, even some of our brain functions. Subminiature drug delivery systems can now precisely target tumors or individual cells. Within two to three decades, our brains will have been “reverse COLUMN | THE NEW YORK TIMES: A RECIPE FOR DESTRUCTION Dear readers, In my 2005 opinion piece for the New York Times, co-author Bill Joy and I discuss serious decisions that must be made by those in control of powerful technological + scientific data, know-how, and instrumentation.This event happened 15 years ago — but the issue is as important today as it was then. While I’m a technology optimist, I’m also a pragmatist — I believe the DON’T FEAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Don’t fear artificial intelligence. by Ray Kurzweil. Stephen Hawking, the pre-eminent physicist, recently warned that artificial intelligence (AI), once it sur­passes human intelligence, could pose a threat to the existence of human civilization. Elon Musk, the pioneer of digital money, private spaceflight and electric cars, has

voiced

CANCER ‘VACCINE’ ELIMINATES ALL TRACES OF CANCER IN MICE Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice was able to eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals — including distant, untreated metastases (spreading cancer locations), according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.. The researchers believe this new “in situ vaccination” method could serve as a rapid and

INNOWATTECH

Innowattech has developed a new breed of piezoelectric generators with a mechanical-electrical association that is ideally suited to harvest the mechanical energy from roadways, railways, runways and pedestrians. In addition, the group has developed an efficient storage system to collect and store the electricity produced by these

generators.

REMOTE-CONTROLLED DNA NANOROBOTS COULD LEAD TO THE FIRST Remote-controlled DNA nanorobots could lead to the first nanorobotic production factory. "Five orders of magnitude faster than previously reported DNA-driven robotic systems". January 19, 2018. German researchers created a 55-nm-by-55-nm DNA-based molecular platform with a 25-nm-long robotic arm that can be KURZWEILSTORIES ON PROGRESSA + EMAILBOXRESOURCESESSAYSFEATURETTE

SERIES

novel by Ray Kurzweil. an adventure for all ages. national best-seller. winner of 2 book awards. click to learn about the book.

Kurzweil Quotes.

THE LAW OF ACCELERATING RETURNS « KURZWEILKURZWEIL ACCELERATING

INTELLIGENCEESSAYS

The Law of Accelerating Returns « Kurzweil. An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century —

MAKING HEADLINES

Pictured is an artist’s realistic illustration of the shape of corona-virus. The top stories. Here’s a collection of key stories on the web + in broadcast media — on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) software being used in several ways to take-on the global corona-virus pandemic. The ways AI

CONTACT « KURZWEIL

media + public speaking. speaking requests for Ray Kurzweil — speaking@Kurzweilai.net. WE ARE BECOMING CYBORGS « KURZWEIL We Are Becoming Cyborgs « Kurzweil. The union of human and machine is well on its way. Almost every part of the body can already be enhanced or replaced, even some of our brain functions. Subminiature drug delivery systems can now precisely target tumors or individual cells. Within two to three decades, our brains will have been “reverse COLUMN | THE NEW YORK TIMES: A RECIPE FOR DESTRUCTION Dear readers, In my 2005 opinion piece for the New York Times, co-author Bill Joy and I discuss serious decisions that must be made by those in control of powerful technological + scientific data, know-how, and instrumentation.This event happened 15 years ago — but the issue is as important today as it was then. While I’m a technology optimist, I’m also a pragmatist — I believe the DON’T FEAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Don’t fear artificial intelligence. by Ray Kurzweil. Stephen Hawking, the pre-eminent physicist, recently warned that artificial intelligence (AI), once it sur­passes human intelligence, could pose a threat to the existence of human civilization. Elon Musk, the pioneer of digital money, private spaceflight and electric cars, has

voiced

CANCER ‘VACCINE’ ELIMINATES ALL TRACES OF CANCER IN MICE Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice was able to eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals — including distant, untreated metastases (spreading cancer locations), according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.. The researchers believe this new “in situ vaccination” method could serve as a rapid and

INNOWATTECH

Innowattech has developed a new breed of piezoelectric generators with a mechanical-electrical association that is ideally suited to harvest the mechanical energy from roadways, railways, runways and pedestrians. In addition, the group has developed an efficient storage system to collect and store the electricity produced by these

generators.

REMOTE-CONTROLLED DNA NANOROBOTS COULD LEAD TO THE FIRST Remote-controlled DNA nanorobots could lead to the first nanorobotic production factory. "Five orders of magnitude faster than previously reported DNA-driven robotic systems". January 19, 2018. German researchers created a 55-nm-by-55-nm DNA-based molecular platform with a 25-nm-long robotic arm that can be WIRED | AI-POWERED BIOTECH CAN HELP DEPLOY A VACCINE IN by Ray Kurzweil. The magnitude of the Covid-19 pandemic will largely depend on how quickly safe and effective vaccines and treatments can be developed and tested. Many assume a widely available vaccine is years away, if ever. Others believe that a 12- to 18-month development cycle is a given. Our best bet to reduce even that record-breaking

MAKING HEADLINES

Pictured is an artist’s realistic illustration of the shape of corona-virus. The top stories. Here’s a collection of key stories on the web + in broadcast media — on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) software being used in several ways to take-on the global corona-virus pandemic. The ways AI IS YOUR THINKING CHAOTIC? THERE’S A MODEL FOR THAT. « KURZWEIL The new model, described in an open-access paper in the journal Chaos, may help scientists understand a variety of human psychiatric conditions that may involve sequential memory, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar, and attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia and autism. Cognitive modes are the basic states of neural activity. MOVIERESHAPE SOFTWARE « KURZWEIL MovieReshape software. October 14, 2010. The MovieReShape software was developed at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrucken by Christian Theobalt and colleagues, and enables movie-makers, both amateur and professional, to dramatically change the appearance of people on video without computer editing each frame. HIGH-QUALITY CARBON NANOTUBES MADE FROM CARBON DIOXIDE IN Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered a technique to cost-effectively convert carbon dioxide from the air into a type of carbon nanotubes that they say is “more valuable than any other material ever made.”. Carbon nanotubes are super-materials that can be stronger than steel and more conductive than copper. CHAPTER ONE THE SIX EPOCHS ical bandwidth for processing new information extremely limited compared to the exponential growth of the overall human knowledge base. Our version 1.0 biological bodies PROJECTING A VISUAL IMAGE DIRECTLY INTO THE BRAIN Imagine replacing a damaged eye with a window directly into the brain — one that communicates with the visual part of the cerebral cortex by reading from a million individual neurons and simultaneously stimulating 1,000 of them with single-cell accuracy, allowing someone

to see again.

FULLY SELF-DRIVING CARS EXPECTED BY 2030, SAYS FORECAST The study anticipates that nearly all of the vehicles in use are likely to be self-driving cars or self-driving commercial vehicles sometime after 2050. The price premium for the SDC electronics technology will add between $7,000 and $10,000 to a car’s sticker price in 2025, a figure that will drop to around $5,000 in 2030 and

about $3,000 in

WHY CHINA MAKES OUR ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS (IT’S NOT JUST It’s not just that workers are cheaper abroad, according to an important article in The New York Times Saturday. Most of the components of cellphones, computers, and other electronic products are now manufactured in China (and European and other East-Asia countries), so assembling the device half-a-world away would create huge logistical challenges, the article points out. HOW TO CONDENSE WATER OUT OF AIR USING ONLY SUNLIGHT FOR MIT scientists have invented a water harvester that uses only sunlight to pull water out of the air under desert conditions, using a “metal-organic framework” (MOF) powdered material developed at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Under conditions of 20–30 percent humidity (a level common in arid areas), the prototype KURZWEILSTORIES ON PROGRESSA + EMAILBOXRESOURCESESSAYSFEATURETTE

SERIES

novel by Ray Kurzweil. an adventure for all ages. national best-seller. winner of 2 book awards. click to learn about the book.

Kurzweil Quotes.

THE LAW OF ACCELERATING RETURNS « KURZWEILKURZWEIL ACCELERATING

INTELLIGENCEESSAYS

The Law of Accelerating Returns « Kurzweil. An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century —

CONTACT « KURZWEIL

media + public speaking. speaking requests for Ray Kurzweil — speaking@Kurzweilai.net.

MAKING HEADLINES

Pictured is an artist’s realistic illustration of the shape of corona-virus. The top stories. Here’s a collection of key stories on the web + in broadcast media — on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) software being used in several ways to take-on the global corona-virus pandemic. The ways AI COLUMN | THE NEW YORK TIMES: A RECIPE FOR DESTRUCTION Dear readers, In my 2005 opinion piece for the New York Times, co-author Bill Joy and I discuss serious decisions that must be made by those in control of powerful technological + scientific data, know-how, and instrumentation.This event happened 15 years ago — but the issue is as important today as it was then. While I’m a technology optimist, I’m also a pragmatist — I believe the WE ARE BECOMING CYBORGS « KURZWEIL We Are Becoming Cyborgs « Kurzweil. The union of human and machine is well on its way. Almost every part of the body can already be enhanced or replaced, even some of our brain functions. Subminiature drug delivery systems can now precisely target tumors or individual cells. Within two to three decades, our brains will have been “reverse DON’T FEAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Don’t fear artificial intelligence. by Ray Kurzweil. Stephen Hawking, the pre-eminent physicist, recently warned that artificial intelligence (AI), once it sur­passes human intelligence, could pose a threat to the existence of human civilization. Elon Musk, the pioneer of digital money, private spaceflight and electric cars, has

voiced

CANCER ‘VACCINE’ ELIMINATES ALL TRACES OF CANCER IN MICE Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice was able to eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals — including distant, untreated metastases (spreading cancer locations), according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.. The researchers believe this new “in situ vaccination” method could serve as a rapid and

INNOWATTECH

Innowattech has developed a new breed of piezoelectric generators with a mechanical-electrical association that is ideally suited to harvest the mechanical energy from roadways, railways, runways and pedestrians. In addition, the group has developed an efficient storage system to collect and store the electricity produced by these

generators.

REMOTE-CONTROLLED DNA NANOROBOTS COULD LEAD TO THE FIRST Remote-controlled DNA nanorobots could lead to the first nanorobotic production factory. "Five orders of magnitude faster than previously reported DNA-driven robotic systems". January 19, 2018. German researchers created a 55-nm-by-55-nm DNA-based molecular platform with a 25-nm-long robotic arm that can be KURZWEILSTORIES ON PROGRESSA + EMAILBOXRESOURCESESSAYSFEATURETTE

SERIES

novel by Ray Kurzweil. an adventure for all ages. national best-seller. winner of 2 book awards. click to learn about the book.

Kurzweil Quotes.

THE LAW OF ACCELERATING RETURNS « KURZWEILKURZWEIL ACCELERATING

INTELLIGENCEESSAYS

The Law of Accelerating Returns « Kurzweil. An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century —

CONTACT « KURZWEIL

media + public speaking. speaking requests for Ray Kurzweil — speaking@Kurzweilai.net.

MAKING HEADLINES

Pictured is an artist’s realistic illustration of the shape of corona-virus. The top stories. Here’s a collection of key stories on the web + in broadcast media — on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) software being used in several ways to take-on the global corona-virus pandemic. The ways AI COLUMN | THE NEW YORK TIMES: A RECIPE FOR DESTRUCTION Dear readers, In my 2005 opinion piece for the New York Times, co-author Bill Joy and I discuss serious decisions that must be made by those in control of powerful technological + scientific data, know-how, and instrumentation.This event happened 15 years ago — but the issue is as important today as it was then. While I’m a technology optimist, I’m also a pragmatist — I believe the WE ARE BECOMING CYBORGS « KURZWEIL We Are Becoming Cyborgs « Kurzweil. The union of human and machine is well on its way. Almost every part of the body can already be enhanced or replaced, even some of our brain functions. Subminiature drug delivery systems can now precisely target tumors or individual cells. Within two to three decades, our brains will have been “reverse DON’T FEAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Don’t fear artificial intelligence. by Ray Kurzweil. Stephen Hawking, the pre-eminent physicist, recently warned that artificial intelligence (AI), once it sur­passes human intelligence, could pose a threat to the existence of human civilization. Elon Musk, the pioneer of digital money, private spaceflight and electric cars, has

voiced

CANCER ‘VACCINE’ ELIMINATES ALL TRACES OF CANCER IN MICE Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice was able to eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals — including distant, untreated metastases (spreading cancer locations), according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers.. The researchers believe this new “in situ vaccination” method could serve as a rapid and

INNOWATTECH

Innowattech has developed a new breed of piezoelectric generators with a mechanical-electrical association that is ideally suited to harvest the mechanical energy from roadways, railways, runways and pedestrians. In addition, the group has developed an efficient storage system to collect and store the electricity produced by these

generators.

REMOTE-CONTROLLED DNA NANOROBOTS COULD LEAD TO THE FIRST Remote-controlled DNA nanorobots could lead to the first nanorobotic production factory. "Five orders of magnitude faster than previously reported DNA-driven robotic systems". January 19, 2018. German researchers created a 55-nm-by-55-nm DNA-based molecular platform with a 25-nm-long robotic arm that can be

MAKING HEADLINES

Pictured is an artist’s realistic illustration of the shape of corona-virus. The top stories. Here’s a collection of key stories on the web + in broadcast media — on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) software being used in several ways to take-on the global corona-virus pandemic. The ways AI HIGH-QUALITY CARBON NANOTUBES MADE FROM CARBON DIOXIDE IN Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered a technique to cost-effectively convert carbon dioxide from the air into a type of carbon nanotubes that they say is “more valuable than any other material ever made.”. Carbon nanotubes are super-materials that can be stronger than steel and more conductive than copper. IS YOUR THINKING CHAOTIC? THERE’S A MODEL FOR THAT. « KURZWEIL The new model, described in an open-access paper in the journal Chaos, may help scientists understand a variety of human psychiatric conditions that may involve sequential memory, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar, and attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia and autism. Cognitive modes are the basic states of neural activity. MOVIERESHAPE SOFTWARE « KURZWEIL MovieReshape software. October 14, 2010. The MovieReShape software was developed at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrucken by Christian Theobalt and colleagues, and enables movie-makers, both amateur and professional, to dramatically change the appearance of people on video without computer editing each frame. CHAPTER ONE THE SIX EPOCHS ical bandwidth for processing new information extremely limited compared to the exponential growth of the overall human knowledge base. Our version 1.0 biological bodies PROJECTING A VISUAL IMAGE DIRECTLY INTO THE BRAIN Imagine replacing a damaged eye with a window directly into the brain — one that communicates with the visual part of the cerebral cortex by reading from a million individual neurons and simultaneously stimulating 1,000 of them with single-cell accuracy, allowing someone

to see again.

TED | AN EQUATION FOR INTELLIGENCE BY ALEX WISSNER-GROSS Wissner-Gross is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He serves as an institute fellow at the Harvard University Institute for applied computational science and as a research affiliate at the MIT Media Laboratory. In 2007, he completed his PhD in physics at Harvard, where he researched programmable matter, ubiquitous computing, and machine FULLY SELF-DRIVING CARS EXPECTED BY 2030, SAYS FORECAST The study anticipates that nearly all of the vehicles in use are likely to be self-driving cars or self-driving commercial vehicles sometime after 2050. The price premium for the SDC electronics technology will add between $7,000 and $10,000 to a car’s sticker price in 2025, a figure that will drop to around $5,000 in 2030 and

about $3,000 in

WHY CHINA MAKES OUR ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS (IT’S NOT JUST It’s not just that workers are cheaper abroad, according to an important article in The New York Times Saturday. Most of the components of cellphones, computers, and other electronic products are now manufactured in China (and European and other East-Asia countries), so assembling the device half-a-world away would create huge logistical challenges, the article points out. HOW TO CONDENSE WATER OUT OF AIR USING ONLY SUNLIGHT FOR MIT scientists have invented a water harvester that uses only sunlight to pull water out of the air under desert conditions, using a “metal-organic framework” (MOF) powdered material developed at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Under conditions of 20–30 percent humidity (a level common in arid areas), the prototype RESPIROCYTES « KURZWEILSEE MORE ON KURZWEILAI.NET CONTACT « KURZWEILRAY KURZWEIL DIETRAY KURZWEIL GOOGLERAY KURZWEIL SINGULARITYRAY KURZWEIL WRITTEN WORKSRAY KURZWEIL PREDICTIONS FOR 2020 media + public speaking. speaking requests for Ray Kurzweil — speaking@Kurzweilai.net. DON’T FEAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Don’t fear artificial intelligence. by Ray Kurzweil. Stephen Hawking, the pre-eminent physicist, recently warned that artificial intelligence (AI), once it sur­passes human intelligence, could pose a threat to the existence of human civilization. Elon Musk, the pioneer of digital money, private spaceflight and electric cars, has

voiced

BILINGUALS BETTER AT MULTITASKING, RESEARCHERS FIND « KURZWEIL Bilinguals better at multitasking, researchers find. Recent research indicates that bilingual speakers can outperform monolinguals–people who speak only one language — in certain mental abilities, such as editing out irrelevant information and focusing on important information, said Judith Kroll, Distinguished Professor of Psychology,

Penn

HIGH-QUALITY CARBON NANOTUBES MADE FROM CARBON DIOXIDE INCARBON DIOXIDE GASCARBON NANOTUBE MANUFACTURERS IN USCO2 CARBON DIOXIDE BLOOD TESTHOW ARE CARBON NANOTUBES BONDEDCARBON NANOTUBE APPLICATIONSCURRENT USES OF CARBON NANOTUBES Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered a technique to cost-effectively convert carbon dioxide from the air into a type of carbon nanotubes that they say is “more valuable than any other material ever made.”. Carbon nanotubes are super-materials that can be stronger than steel and more conductive than copper. WEB APPS FOR BIOINFORMATICS « KURZWEIL A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) team has developed ImageJS, a free app system that analyzes tissue images. The ImageJS module enables pathologists to drag a digitized pathology slide into a Web app and analyze it for malignancy based on color. Cancer cells change color when exposed to standard dyes. THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON NEURAL IMPLANTS « KURZWEIL You undergo a procedure to replace a very small part of your brain with a nonbiological unit. This is not so far-fetched, as it is done routinely for people with neurological and sensory impairments, such as the neural implant for Parkinson’s disease and cochlear implants for the deaf. As promised, the procedure works just fine — certain

of

RADICAL NEW VERTICALLY INTEGRATED 3D CHIP DESIGN COMBINESCHIP DESIGN ENGINEERCHIP DESIGN FLOWCHIP DESIGN PDFCHIP DESIGN SOFTWAREIC CHIP

DESIGN

A radical new 3D chip that combines computation and data storage in vertically stacked layers — allowing for processing and storing massive amounts of data at high speed in future transformative nanosystems — has been designed by researchers at Stanford University and MIT.. The new 3D-chip design* replaces silicon with carbon nanotubes (sheets of 2-D graphene formed into TED | AN EQUATION FOR INTELLIGENCE BY ALEX WISSNER-GROSS Wissner-Gross is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He serves as an institute fellow at the Harvard University Institute for applied computational science and as a research affiliate at the MIT Media Laboratory. In 2007, he completed his PhD in physics at Harvard, where he researched programmable matter, ubiquitous computing, and machine REMOTE-CONTROLLED DNA NANOROBOTS COULD LEAD TO THE FIRSTDNA NANOBOTDNA

NANOROBOT

Remote-controlled DNA nanorobots could lead to the first nanorobotic production factory. "Five orders of magnitude faster than previously reported DNA-driven robotic systems". January 19, 2018. German researchers created a 55-nm-by-55-nm DNA-based molecular platform with a 25-nm-long robotic arm that can be RESPIROCYTES « KURZWEILSEE MORE ON KURZWEILAI.NET CONTACT « KURZWEILRAY KURZWEIL DIETRAY KURZWEIL GOOGLERAY KURZWEIL SINGULARITYRAY KURZWEIL WRITTEN WORKSRAY KURZWEIL PREDICTIONS FOR 2020 media + public speaking. speaking requests for Ray Kurzweil — speaking@Kurzweilai.net. DON’T FEAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Don’t fear artificial intelligence. by Ray Kurzweil. Stephen Hawking, the pre-eminent physicist, recently warned that artificial intelligence (AI), once it sur­passes human intelligence, could pose a threat to the existence of human civilization. Elon Musk, the pioneer of digital money, private spaceflight and electric cars, has

voiced

BILINGUALS BETTER AT MULTITASKING, RESEARCHERS FIND « KURZWEIL Bilinguals better at multitasking, researchers find. Recent research indicates that bilingual speakers can outperform monolinguals–people who speak only one language — in certain mental abilities, such as editing out irrelevant information and focusing on important information, said Judith Kroll, Distinguished Professor of Psychology,

Penn

HIGH-QUALITY CARBON NANOTUBES MADE FROM CARBON DIOXIDE INCARBON DIOXIDE GASCARBON NANOTUBE MANUFACTURERS IN USCO2 CARBON DIOXIDE BLOOD TESTHOW ARE CARBON NANOTUBES BONDEDCARBON NANOTUBE APPLICATIONSCURRENT USES OF CARBON NANOTUBES Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered a technique to cost-effectively convert carbon dioxide from the air into a type of carbon nanotubes that they say is “more valuable than any other material ever made.”. Carbon nanotubes are super-materials that can be stronger than steel and more conductive than copper. WEB APPS FOR BIOINFORMATICS « KURZWEIL A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) team has developed ImageJS, a free app system that analyzes tissue images. The ImageJS module enables pathologists to drag a digitized pathology slide into a Web app and analyze it for malignancy based on color. Cancer cells change color when exposed to standard dyes. THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON NEURAL IMPLANTS « KURZWEIL You undergo a procedure to replace a very small part of your brain with a nonbiological unit. This is not so far-fetched, as it is done routinely for people with neurological and sensory impairments, such as the neural implant for Parkinson’s disease and cochlear implants for the deaf. As promised, the procedure works just fine — certain

of

RADICAL NEW VERTICALLY INTEGRATED 3D CHIP DESIGN COMBINESCHIP DESIGN ENGINEERCHIP DESIGN FLOWCHIP DESIGN PDFCHIP DESIGN SOFTWAREIC CHIP

DESIGN

A radical new 3D chip that combines computation and data storage in vertically stacked layers — allowing for processing and storing massive amounts of data at high speed in future transformative nanosystems — has been designed by researchers at Stanford University and MIT.. The new 3D-chip design* replaces silicon with carbon nanotubes (sheets of 2-D graphene formed into TED | AN EQUATION FOR INTELLIGENCE BY ALEX WISSNER-GROSS Wissner-Gross is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He serves as an institute fellow at the Harvard University Institute for applied computational science and as a research affiliate at the MIT Media Laboratory. In 2007, he completed his PhD in physics at Harvard, where he researched programmable matter, ubiquitous computing, and machine REMOTE-CONTROLLED DNA NANOROBOTS COULD LEAD TO THE FIRSTDNA NANOBOTDNA

NANOROBOT

Remote-controlled DNA nanorobots could lead to the first nanorobotic production factory. "Five orders of magnitude faster than previously reported DNA-driven robotic systems". January 19, 2018. German researchers created a 55-nm-by-55-nm DNA-based molecular platform with a 25-nm-long robotic arm that can be

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media + public speaking. speaking requests for Ray Kurzweil — interview requests for Ray Kurzweil — THE LAW OF ACCELERATING RETURNS « KURZWEIL The Law of Accelerating Returns « Kurzweil. An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — BILINGUALS BETTER AT MULTITASKING, RESEARCHERS FIND « KURZWEIL Bilinguals better at multitasking, researchers find. Recent research indicates that bilingual speakers can outperform monolinguals–people who speak only one language — in certain mental abilities, such as editing out irrelevant information and focusing on important information, said Judith Kroll, Distinguished Professor of Psychology,

Penn

BY 2040 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO UPLOAD YOUR BRAIN,,, « KURZWEIL We will be able to upload the human brain to a computer, capturing “a person’s entire personality, memory, skills and history,” by the end of the 2030s; humans and non-biological machines will then merge so effectively that the differences between them will no longer matter; and, after that, human intelligence, transformed for the better, will start to expand outward into the universe APPARENTLY WE’RE ALL GOING TO LIVE FOREVER BY 2029 « KURZWEIL Google’s chief futurist Ray Kurzweil says humans will have eternal life by 2029. Kurzweil has been accurate in his predictions so far. Back in the 1980s — when we were lugging around our Motorola bricks — he already predicted a bunch of things that are now part of everyday life. This includes self-driving cars, prosthetic legs for TED | AN EQUATION FOR INTELLIGENCE BY ALEX WISSNER-GROSS Wissner-Gross is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He serves as an institute fellow at the Harvard University Institute for applied computational science and as a research affiliate at the MIT Media Laboratory. In 2007, he completed his PhD in physics at Harvard, where he researched programmable matter, ubiquitous computing, and machine METHOD DISCOVERED TO REMOVE DAMAGING AMYLOID PLAQUES FOUND Abstract of Young microglia restore amyloid plaque clearance of aged microglia. Alzheimer′s disease (AD) is characterized by deposition of amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuroinflammation. In order to study microglial contribution to amyloid plaque phagocytosis, we developed a novel ex vivo model by co‐culturing organotypic brain slices from up to 20‐month‐old, HIGHER DEMENTIA RISK LINKED TO MORE USE OF COMMON DRUGS Higher dementia risk linked to more use of common drugs « Kurzweil. (Credit: iStock) A large study links a significantly increased risk for developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, to taking commonly used medications with anticholinergic effects at higher doses or for a longer time. Many older people take these medications, which UPDATE | THE BUZZER FACTOR: DID WATSON HAVE AN UNFAIR Watson was beaten to the buzz. — David Ferrucci white paper. It’s actually even worse for Watson, Ferrucci goes on. “It spends its 2,800 compute cores trying to understand and answer the question in enough time to get any chance to buzz in. The current version of KURZWEILACCELERATING INTELLIGENCE

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