Dorm Room of the Future


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?


Medical Miracles

Have you heard the latest news about:

Curing blindness with photoreceptor transplants? 

Hand paralysis reversed using brain implants? 


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?


3-D Printing As Transformational Technology

A nice look at the 3D printing megatrend.   Local (onsite) manufacturing  on demand and the death of the supply chain?  Or a Radical home appliance triggering a new abundance of material wealth?  

Print your own spacecraft?

Instant Lego machine = massive disruption to the toy industry?


Got crabs?

40 crabs= computer

Japanese and British (collision-based computing) researchers have demonstrated a working computer out of crab swarms.  The Professor from Gilligan’s Island and Mcgyver types take note.

BTW Swarm intelligence, swarm robotics and swarm theories for computation and particle physics are hot topics right now.

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Virtual Property: Virtual Property Crime

Would you like to buy $2.5 million dollars worth of virutal real estate?

Would you like to buy your own habitable planet? (millions of light years away)

Did an avatar steal your virtual starship?  Help is on the way!

 


Total Biolectric Interface

Singularity Hub has a sick profile on Stanford startup Vergence Labs.  They are working on Singularity style human machine mashups. 

In cyborg related news, MVG expects to have direct-to-brain bionic eye implants ready for testing in 2014.

 

 


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