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Future Imperative

What if technology were being developed that could enhance your mind or body to extraordinary or even superhuman levels -- and some of these tools were already here? Wouldn't you be curious?

Actually, some are here. But human enhancement is an incredibly broad and compartmentalized field. We’re often unaware of what’s right next door. This site reviews resources and ideas from across the field and makes it easy for readers to find exactly the information they're most interested in.

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The future is coming fast, and it's no longer possible to ignore how rapidly the world is changing. As the old order changes -- or more frequently crumbles altogether -- I offer a perspective on how we can transform ourselves in turn... for the better. Nothing on this site is intended as legal, financial or medical advice. Indeed, much of what I discuss amounts to possibilities rather than certainties, in an ever-changing present and an ever-uncertain future.

Monday, November 28, 2005

A Tiny Step Forward... -- AI, Cyber, Nano, Tech

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Popular Science reports on the creation of robots so small that you could fit 200 on your fingertip. Researchers intend to one day create teams of such tiny robots to repair computer circuitry. Fixing your PC may seem relatively mundane, but swarms of effective micromachinery at this scale will open whole new areas of high-tech contruction and minimally-invasive surgery.

The push to continue improving and shrinking these devices to deal with ever smaller processors and chips will, in addition, create greater impetus towards creating "strong nanotechnology" by the "top-down" method of shrinking conventional machines down to a molecular scale. In the meantime, imagine such "prosaic" feats as cleaning out all of the plaque in your blood vessels, whether they supply your heart... or your brain.

Such is the state of converging technologies in today's world. "Curioser and curioser."


Future Imperative

posted by Ralph Cerchione | Monday, November 28, 2005

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