Pondering a cyborg future
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Blog: How close is modern science to an era when technology can restore lost motor functions. Scientists say we're getting close-but a huge effort still remains.
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Paypal founder, Facebook backer and hedge-fund founder Peter Thiel looks forward to the "singularity," the day when computers achieve greater than human intelligence. We can invest to profit from this breakthrough, assuming the robots don't destroy the human race first, he says.
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Chip guru Gordon Moore talks about the future of the processors at the heart of modern computers.
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The computing technologies to go beyond Moore's Law
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Two vastly different robots unveiled at DigitalLife offer practicality and Jetsons frivolity for the home.
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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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When Robert Poor looks at the world, he sees 50 billion embedded microcontrollers, the workhorse chips inside cars, traffic lights and air conditioners, doing their jobs in splendid isolation. Then he imagines what will happen when they all can talk to one another.
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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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The Open Prothetics Project uses an open-source model to advance the state of the art in artificial limbs. By Quinn Norton. Part two in a four-part series.
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Technology is changing daily. It&#39;s a wonder we aren&#39;t all punch-drunk from the velocity with which new things emerge and not-so-old things become obsolete.
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Within 50 years, biotech will suffuse everyday life just as computer technology does now -- so says Freeman Dyson.  It's not new, but the futurist describes his vision, from DIY genetic engineering for pigeon fanciers and schoolchildren to green industrial.
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Gabe: We did a really awesome project (can I say it"s awesome, is that okay?) for Wired magazine. You can either go pick up the most recent issue and read it there or check it out on their site. They asked us to do a piece for them handicapping all three of the next generation systems. We tried to be as fair as we could and hopefully you"ll get a kick out of it.
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Researchers have created an electronic contact lens that could be used as a display or a medical sensor.
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Software giant Microsoft Corp.   sees the future and it is robots.
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Computers long ago ceased to be simply tools. Instead, like digital music players and digital cameras, they are coming to reflect peopleÂs tastes and aspirations.
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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Digital technology changes from workhorse to entertainer.