Essay: Our Synthetic Futures
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What might happen if we repurpose biology to our own ends?
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Comment is free: John Gray: The technologies we fear will be our only salvation against climate change
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A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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The race to create life from scratch is underway. But how close are scientists to making a synthetic organism?
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Tycho:  Imagine that there exists a great machine.
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In response to growing concerns over the planet's future, scientists are proposing some radical ideas to combat global warming.
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Satellite radio has a more promising future than you think.
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Some able-bodied people want to improve their bodies with artificial parts. But their dreams may outpace the capabilities of technology. By Chris Oakes. Part four in a four-part series.
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Scientists say they have made a major step toward creating synthetic forms of life.
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.
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Neural networking pioneer Stephen Thaler is adapting his Creativity Machine theories to power self-organizing swarms of cockroach-size robots for the military. Is an artificial intelligence breakthrough on the horizon? By David Hambling.
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Is good enough good enough?  If so (and, frankly, it should be for most every application), then our options expand dramatically as to how we resolve our needs.  If not, we're likely going to be forced into a system that requires that we live by its rules
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Technology challenges us to question our assumptions about love, fidelity and who we can have sex with. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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I once thought that worrying about what we should broadcast to extraterrestrials made as much sense as fretting over the small talk I'd venture with King Carl XVI Gustaf if I won the Nobel Prize. I reckoned there was no need to dwell on the problem, as it was both hypothetical and irrelevant.
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Trattative potrebbero essere riprese in futuro
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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The car of the future could be in your driveway in 2005. At least one company promises it will deliver, and advances in materials technology could contribute. By John Gartner.