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Jun 4, 2015
Next Big Future: Conceptually Viable Brute Force Radical Life Extension
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, futurism, life extension
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has made the first steps towards development of bioartificial replacement limbs suitable for transplantation They had used decellularization technique to regenerate kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs from animal models, but this is the first reported use to engineer the more complex tissues of a bioartificial limb.
They took the leg from recently deceased rat and then:
* Over a period of 52 hours, infusion of a detergent solution removes cells from a rat forelimb, leaving behind the cell-free matrix scaffolding onto which new tissues can be regenerated.
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Jun 3, 2015
Future Crises: Is there opportunity beside the danger?
Posted by Lily Graca in category: futurism
Jose Cordeiro is a hopeless optimist. But is he right to say that in the Chinese word for crisis there’s opportunity beside the danger? I think he is. What do you think?!
Jun 2, 2015
The 12 Most Exciting and Surprising Collaborations in Digital Health
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, futurism, health
From time to time, I come across news covering collaborations between companies which are either promising or surprising. Sometimes both. A future full of science fiction technologies in medicine &…
This video shows our key technology demonstrations and equipment developed in our lab, including: 100kW CW gyrotron assembly and operation, beaming of 100kW of…
May 28, 2015
It’s Friday: Watch Jason Silva Talk Tech, Creativity, and Flow With a Few of His Heroes -
Posted by Seb in category: futurism
Jason Silva isn’t a scientist, he’s a synthesizer. And he is a quoting machine. Kevin Kelly, Freeman Dyson, Ernest Becker, Erik Davis, Steven Johnson. These are Silva’s heroes, and he aims to infect us with his enthusiasm for their ideas. In his new “Creative Sessions” interviews, Silva goes straight to the source.
Instead of a quote from Erik Davis? Davis (author of TechGnosis) is there, sitting on his couch for an hour-long conversation—in which he gets plenty of time to frame his ideas, put meat on the bones, add context. Read more
May 28, 2015
Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: architecture, environmental, futurism, human trajectories, lifeboat
“In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today’s most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible?”
May 23, 2015
Experimental Architect Explores Biology’s Role in Urban Design — By Henry Grabar for Next City
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: architecture, biological, complex systems, futurism, habitats, health, science
May 21, 2015
The International Flag of Planet Earth
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: alien life, astronomy, cosmology, evolution, futurism, geopolitics, gravity, sustainability, time travel, treaties
May 19, 2015
Edge of Dark Review
Posted by Ramez Naam in categories: futurism, robotics/AI, transhumanism
Edge of Dark is part space-opera, part coming-of-age story, and part exploration of the relationship between humans and the post-human descendants who may ultimately transcend them.
The book takes place in the same universe as Brenda Cooper’s “Ruby’s Song” books (The Creative Fire; The Diamond Deep). However, you don’t need to have read those books to enjoy this one. The story in Edge of Dark picks up decades after the earlier books.
The setting is a solar system in which the most Earth-like planet, once nearly ecologically destroyed, is now in large part a wilderness preserve, still undergoing active restoration. Most humans live on massive space stations in the inner solar system. A few live on smaller space stations a bit further out, closer to the proverbial “Edge”. And beyond that? Beyond that, far from the sun, dwell exiles, cast out long ago for violating social norms by daring to go too far in tinkering with the human mind and body.
