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Mar 23, 2016
A professor made an invisibility cloaking device
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Mar 22, 2016
This machine can perfectly draw or write anything
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Mar 22, 2016
Floating city made out of garbage
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, habitats
Mar 21, 2016
Resurrection and Biotechnology
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: biotech/medical, disruptive technology, Elon Musk, futurism, human trajectories, neuroscience, posthumanism, Ray Kurzweil, Skynet, transhumanism
“He is not here; He has risen,” — Matthew 28:6
As billions of Christians around the world are getting ready to celebrate the Easter festival and holiday, we take pause to appreciate the awe inspiring phenomena of resurrection.
In religious and mythological contexts, in both Western and Eastern societies, well known and less common names appear, such as Attis, Dionysus, Ganesha, Krishna, Lemminkainen, Odin, Osiris, Persephone, Quetzalcoatl, and Tammuz, all of whom were reborn again in the spark of the divine.
Mar 21, 2016
Exploring other dimensions — Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
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Imagine a two-dimensional world — you, your friends, everything is 2D. In his 1884 novella, Edwin Abbott invented this world and called it Flatland. Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan take the premise of Flatland one dimension further, imploring us to consider how we would see dimensions different from our own and why the exploration just may be worth it.
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Mar 21, 2016
A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: augmented reality, futurism
Awesome. Still, not sure masses would like such a large thing on their head. We’ll see how Occulus does. When it’s as small as any pair of glasses or shades it’ll take off I think.
What if technology could connect us more deeply with our surroundings instead of distracting us from the real world? With the Meta 2, an augmented reality headset that makes it possible for users to see, grab and move holograms just like physical objects, Meron Gribetz hopes to extend our senses through a more natural machine. Join Gribetz as he takes the TED stage to demonstrate the reality-shifting Meta 2 for the first time. (Featuring Q&A with TED Curator Chris Anderson)
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