I had a scenario like this in a cyberpunkish novel I started writing as a teenager. I never finished it, at least, not in that form; it morphed into a fantasy novel when I decided that the game the characters were playing made for a more interesting story. (I wasn’t very good at plots yet.) But I thought the idea of extra arms controlled by your mind was cool, even if I couldn’t figure out how to make it matter to the story.

Also, Doctor Octopus.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

This Prosthesis Lets You Multitask With Three Arms

https://suhub.co/2O08BA2

“Smart dust” can detect pollutants.

My worry would be that it becomes a pollutant itself.

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MIT Study Shows Off Chemical-Detecting Machines the Size of a Human Egg Cell https://suhub.co/2Ou5AZP

The ecovillage concept is getting some attention at the moment.

One of its potential drawbacks, to me, is that it looks like it will need quite a lot of focus and intentionality from the people living there. Or perhaps that’s a feature?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90207375/the-worlds-first-high-tech-eco-village-will-reinvent-suburbs

Fiction set on Mars tends to fall into two groups: stodgy or dodgy.

Here’s some thought stimulus that is neither.

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/this-wild-mars-colony-concept-uses-inflatables-3d-printed-space-cement

You should apply a steep hype discount to any article by Peter Diamandis. But his pieces do point in interesting directions, even if they fail to mention any of the many problems involved. In this case, there are doubtless numerous problems involved in setting up these systems (and paying for them), and many issues, as well as opportunities, that will inevitably arise when several billion internet n00bs from impoverished countries are suddenly among us.

But there, at the intersection of opportunity and problem, is where the stories live.

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4 Billion New Minds Online: The Coming Era of Connectivity https://suhub.co/2uWUDb4

Very cool look.

Originally shared by designboom

created by lazzarini, it successfully combines a retro aesthetic with futuristic technology to create a vision of what a future with flying automobiles may be.

https://www.designboom.com/technology/lazzarini-hover-coupe-12-23-2017/?utm_content=buffer602ea&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Some good info in this article on Tudor-era trading. Mostly coastal, as it turns out.

Originally shared by Tam McD

https://theconversation.com/what-the-16th-century-shipwreck-found-on-the-kent-coast-can-tell-us-about-trade-in-tudor-england-100392

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SF becomes fact: sprayable sensors. “Using tiny 2-D materials, researchers have built microscopic chemical sensors that can be sprayed in an aerosol mist. Spritzes of such minuscule electronic chips, described online July 23 in Nature Nanotechnology, could one day help monitor environmental pollution or diagnose diseases.

Each sensor comprises a polymer chip about 1 micrometer thick and 100 micrometers across (about as wide as a human hair) overlaid with a circuit made with atomically thin semiconducting materials (SN Online: 2/13/18). This superflat circuit includes a photodiode, which converts ambient light into electric current, and a chemical detector. This chemical detector is composed of a 2-D material that conducts electric current more easily if the material binds with a specific chemical in its environment.

[…]

Right now, researchers can determine whether their sensors have come in contact with certain particles only after the fact — by collecting the chips and hooking them up to electrodes. These electrodes test how easily electric current flows through a chip’s chemical detector, which reveals whether it touched a particular chemical after it was sprayed. But future sensors could emit light signals when in contact with target particles, says study coauthor Michael Strano, a chemical engineer at MIT.”

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-kind-spray-loaded-microscopic-electronic-sensors

I’m watching these developments with interest, since I’m increasingly tending to choose not to eat meat for various reasons.

Originally shared by Linda Teppler (S0rceress0)

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/beyond-meat-innovation-center?utm_campaign=foodandwine&utm_medium=social&xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_fw&utm_source=twitter.com

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