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The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain

Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they’ll try to take over your brain.

In the past year, researchers have developed technology that makes it possible to use thoughts to operate a computer, maneuver a whe… Continue

Physicists Find Way To Control Individual Bits In Quantum Computers

ScienceDaily (July 7, 2009) — Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate a single "bit" in a quantum processor without disturbing the information stored in its neighbors. The approach, which makes novel use of polarized light to create "effective" magnetic fields, could bring the lo… Continue

Here's yet another sign of what's coming.

First Electronic Quantum Processor Created

ScienceDaily (2009-06-29) -- Researchers have created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, and used the two-qubit superconducting chip to successfully run elementary algorithms, demonstrating quantum information processing with a solid-state device for the first time.… Continue

Michael Jackson

How long did it take for everybody in the world to know that Michael Jackson had died?

• 5 Minutes?


• 10 Minutes?


• Half an Hour?


• One Hour?

Communication of relevant ideas has become almost instanteous, already.

Iran

Political conflict has now officially globalized. Everybody has heard about the impor… Continue

In my time of being a Singularitarian, it seems that a lot of people have some concept of what an "overmind" or "hive mind" might be. Star Trek fans know about the Borg as an example. Computer game players might recognize the Overmind of the alien Zerg race as another example. But I and other Singularitarians… Continue