Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 1105
Jan 1, 2016
Register Christmas Lecture — Anders Sandberg on Transhumanism
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: futurism, transhumanism
From Humanity Plus:
Anders Sandberg of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute delivered our first 2015 Reg Winter Lecture, taking us on a dizzying tour of transhumanism and human enhancement, which covered why chimpanzees are confused, why the Euro would be in better shape if the politicians put out bowls of stimulants at the next emergency summit, and how some of his friends are experimenting with do it yourself brain hacking.
Dec 28, 2015
Faster entanglement of distant quantum dots
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, quantum physics
Entanglement between distant quantum objects is an important ingredient for future information technologies. Researchers at the ETH have now developed a method with which such states can be created a thousand times faster than before.
