About: Kiran Manam
“In the science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne used nothing more than his imagination to describe in prescient detail, space travel and a landing on the moon. In War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, this story about a Martian invasion of Earth served as inspiration for the father of modern rocket propulsion, Robert Goddard. In the science fiction television series Star Trek, producer Gene Roddenberry imagined an impressive array of futuristic mechanical contraptions including laser beams, motion sensors, and medical imaging devices. In a now famous comic strip published in 1946, cartoonist Chester Gould imagined the existence of a 2-Way radio, and now we have cell phones. Nearly all of these amazing events and devices have come into existence not just because they were the end product of engineering plans, but more importantly because someone dared to imagine, well in advance of the available science used to create them, that they could exist.”
“In the science fiction novel From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne used nothing more than his imagination to describe in prescient detail, space travel and a landing on the moon. In War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, this story about a Martian invasion of Earth served as inspiration for the father of modern rocket propulsion, Robert Goddard. In the science fiction television series Star Trek, producer Gene Roddenberry imagined an impressive array of futuristic mechanical contraptions including laser beams, motion sensors, and medical imaging devices. In a now famous comic strip published in 1946, cartoonist Chester Gould imagined the existence of a 2-Way radio, and now we have cell phones. Nearly all of these amazing events and devices have come into existence not just because they were the end product of engineering plans, but more importantly because someone dared to imagine, well in advance of the available science used to create them, that they could exist.”27 posts by Kiran Manam
- Empirical economic analysis shows cost-effective continuous manufacturing of cultivated chicken using animal-free medium – September 9, 2024
- A primer on the current state of longevity research – August 24, 2024
- Sam Altman: Ousted OpenAI boss to return days after being sacked – November 22, 2023
- Science Cast – July 26, 2023
- OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and “won’t for some time” – April 16, 2023
- A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence – April 15, 2023
- Post: What Will Transformers Transform? – April 10, 2023
- First ‘sand battery’ developed to heat homes or balance renewable energy for grid – July 5, 2022
- As Silicon Valley dreams about Web3, India’s UPI leaps ahead – July 2, 2022
- The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization – June 26, 2022
- Saudi Arabia plans to spend $1 billion a year discovering treatments to slow aging – June 7, 2022
- Beyond our ‘ape-brained meat sacks’: can transhumanism save our species? – June 4, 2022
- Using algorithms to discover new mathematics – February 13, 2022
- New technology is one step closer to targeted gene therapy – December 10, 2021
- Amazing New Chinese A.I.-Powered Language Model Wu Dao 2.0 Unveiled – June 12, 2021
- CRISPR Editing in Primates – May 21, 2021
- Breakthrough in plant protection: RNAi pesticides affect only one pest species – May 21, 2021
- Longevity Meets Blockchain — AMA with Aubrey de Grey and Vitalik Buterin – May 12, 2021
- New device can detect airborne virus particles that cause COVID-19, says maker – April 24, 2021
- Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says – April 3, 2021
- A Thousand Brains introduces a novel theory of intelligence – March 22, 2021
- Nuclear waste could be recycled for diamond battery power – February 7, 2021
- Infinite Power Cell – February 7, 2021
- Social Networks Are the Next Big Decentralization Opportunity – January 25, 2021
- It’s the season for giving what you’ve HODL’d! – December 19, 2020
- Breeding neuromorphic networks for fun and profit: The new reproductive science – December 7, 2020
- Gene-edited livestock ‘surrogate sires’ successfully made fertile – October 22, 2020
