3D Print Your Own Guns


J. Craig Venter on Synthetic Biology at NASA Ames


Peak oil? Or 50-year plan for energy?


Physical Law and the Future of Nanotechnology


Post Singularity Engineering

So you’ve got planetary scale intelligence.  You’ve used self replicating von Neumann probes to build that Dyson Sphere.  What next?

Matrioshka brain


Moore’s Law is Too Slow.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”) is one of the few tech programs left in the U.S. Fed Budget.  This isn’t surprising.  The history of technology is strongly associated with war.

So like, what are they up to?

DARPA thinks Moore’s law is moving too slow.  They are funding research into new material science, new sensors, new transducers and Quantum engineered devices. Awesome!  Check the details at Next Big Future.

DARPA has also announced funding into medicine on demand and portable synthetic biologically lab (tricorder) research.

Speaking of “lab on a chip” research.  Did you see the latest cheap portable genetic sequencer device?


3D Printing at Work


Urban Planning at the Dawn of Material Agility

What is the future of cities when all material objects are programmable?  The IEET has an amazing post.

What’s the background on programmable matter? 


Self-Replicating Spacecraft

Settling the moon with self replicating robots could increase US industrial capacity a million fold.

Self replicating space probes could explore the entire galaxy in five hundred thousand years travelling at one tenth the speed of light. 

The search for alien self-replicating nanobots.

What’s the background on self replicating spacecraft?


Space Migration & Type 2 Kardashev civilization

H+ has a nice post on space migration. 

If you haven’t checked this Sentient Developments post on building a Dyson sphere (disassembling the planets starting with Mercury etc).  Do it!  Even NASA was impressed.


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