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Will resurrecting a mammoth be possible?

March 14, 2012

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South Korea’s Sooam Bioengineering Research Institute signed an agreement Tuesday with Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University to clone a mammoth, the giant elephant that went extinct several thousand years ago, Wall Street Journal Asia Korea Realtime reports.

According to the Sooam Institute, bioengineering scientists since 2002 have discovered what they believe to be the remains of a mammoth in the permafrost of Russia. Last August, it was reported that a… read more

Topics: Biotech | Environment/Climate

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Will Obama pursue space-based solar power?

December 23, 2008

Advocates for space-based solar power have posted a white paper on the topic on the transition website, change.gov, hoping to secure some support for developing the technology from the Obama administration, given the incoming president’s pledge to make developing alternative energy sources a top priority.

Topics: Energy

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Will medical nanorobots be biocompatible?

October 28, 2003

The second volume in the Nanomedicine book series by Robert A. Freitas Jr. , Nanomedicine, Vol. IIA: Biocompatibility, has been published by Landes Bioscience.

This comprehensive technical book is timely, given the growing concerns in the environmental community about the biocompatibility of nanotechnology.

It describes the many possible responses of the human body to the in vivo introduction of future medical nanorobots. Such advanced… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity | Nanotech/Materials Science

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Will Internet censorship bill be pushed through lame-duck Congress?

November 17, 2010

A bill giving the government the power to shut down Web sites that host materials that infringe copyright is making its way quietly through the lame-duck session of Congress, raising the ire of free-speech groups and prompting a group of academics to lobby against the effort.

The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced in Congress this fall by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). It would grant… read more

Topics: Internet/Telecom | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Will Google help navigate your Jetta?

February 6, 2006

Volkswagen is working on a prototype vehicle that features Google’s satellite-mapping software to give drivers a bird’s-eye view of the road ahead.

The two companies are also building an in-car navigation system and a three-dimensional display so passengers can recognize where they are in relation to the surrounding topography.

Topics: VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?

April 16, 2003

“Bioethicists and scientists contemplating the future fear that genetic engineering and other technologies are going to divide human beings into classes that may one day try to destroy one another.”

Topics: Biotech

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Will fact match fiction as scientists start work on thinking robot?

August 26, 2003

Scientists at Essex University and the University of Bristol have been given the biggest ever grant to build a “conscious robot.”

Igor Aleksander, an emeritus professor of neural networks at Imperial College, described five axioms needed to form consciousness in living beings and, subsequently, in machines:

Axiom 1: a sense of place
We feel that we are at the center of an “out there” world, and we have… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics

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Will designer brains divide humanity?

May 14, 2009

It will soon be possible to boost human brainpower with electronic “plug-ins” or even by genetic enhancement. What will this mean for the future of humanity?

Would it widen the gulf between the world’s haves and have-nots — and perhaps even lead to a distinct and dominant species with unmatchable powers of intellect?

It won’t be long before “clip-on” computer aids become available for everybody, says Andy Clark,… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Social/Ethical/Legal

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Will December make or break the Internet?

November 25, 2003

The Internet sits at a crossroads. The World Summit on the Information Society, organized by the International Telecommunications Union, will bring together the heads of over 60 governments in Geneva on December 10 to 12.

The goal: wrest control from ICANN, which is backed by the U.S., Europe and English-speaking partners such as Australia.

Topics: Internet/Telecom

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Will cities of the future be filled with vertical slums?

November 4, 2012

Torre David

After a skyscraper in Caracas was abandoned, it quickly became home to 750 families. As cities develop, will slums build up instead of out? Fast Company Co.EXIST explores.

The 45-story Torre David office tower in Caracas, Venezuela, was nearly complete in the early 1990s when a pair of events changed the building’s trajectory forever: First, the project’s developer, David Brillembourg, died in 1993.

Then, the next year,… read more

Topics: Social/Ethical/Legal

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Will China Blindside the West?

December 2, 2002

China’s transformation is trickling even into the poor interior, dragging all 1.3 billion people into the world economy. When historians look back on our time, I think they’ll focus on the resurgence of China after 500 years of weakness — and the way America was oblivious as this happened. For most of human history, China was the world’s largest economy and most advanced civilization. Then it stagnated after about 1450,… read more

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Will Bioterror Fears Spawn Science Censorship?

April 30, 2007

A draft of new rules adopted by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, or NSABB, proposes voluntary compliance by scientists, universities and journals to limit publication of life-sciences research that could be misused by terrorists.

It defines that as “research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied by others to pose a threat to public… read more

Topics: Biotech | Survival/Defense

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Will Biology Solve the Universe?

March 9, 2007

A new theory by Robert Lanza, vice president of research and scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology, asserts that biology, not physics, will be the key to unlocking the deepest mysteries of the universe, such as quantum mechanics.

“For the first time outside of complex mathematics, this theory explains the provocative new experiment that was just published in Science last month,” he said. “This landmark experiment showed that a… read more

Topics: Physics/Cosmology | Quantum

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Will avatars help children with social anxiety overcome fears?

June 15, 2012

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A computer simulation program that enables children to interact with avatars to reduce social anxiety has been developed by the University of Central Florida Anxiety Disorders Clinic and the Atlanta-based company Virtually Better .

The simulation, designed for children ages 8 to 12, allows clinicians to play the roles of the avatars while the children sit at a computer in a different room and respond to situations they encounter routinely. The… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Social Networking/Web/Education | Social/Ethical/Legal | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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Will anyone create a killer app for Google Glass?

March 7, 2013

Google's Glass Foundary

Google is creating high expectations that Google Glass will become a mass-market device, MIT Technology Review reports.

A new company, Augmedix, is making a Google Glass app for doctors, not for their patients. Founder Ian Shakil says his company is already testing it with medical facilities using the Vuzix M100, another smart glasses gadget coming out this year.

Google said there were more than 80… read more

Topics: VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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