Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

Yes!!! There’s hardly any technology that gets me more excited than BMIs (brain-machine interfaces). Think back to how everyone’s lives changed when they suddenly had pocket computers (smartphones). When BMIs improve and then go mainstream, everyone’s level of productivity is going to skyrocket. Whether they use this newfound transhuman ability to browse the web’s increasingly mindless content or use it for enhanced productivity is up to them. Did I mention you can easily use them for mind-mind communication? It’s not sci-fi, just technology.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/211388-brain-controlled-prosthesis-nearly-as-good-as-one-finger-typing

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

Exactly.

And, even better than the title, are the closing lines with a quote by the cofounder of Singularity University and CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation…

As Peter Diamandis has said, “on the road to abundance there will be turbulence.”  The light at the end of this tunnel, however, may be a world in which the pursuit of enlightenment is more cherished than the pursuit of money.

http://singularityhub.com/2015/07/27/when-machines-can-do-most-jobs-passion-creativity-and-reinvention-rule/

Originally shared by Laston Kirkland

A bare volcanic island turned into a paradise by none other than Charles Darwin. Fascinating.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-11137903

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

A couple weeks old, but it’s impressive. Could make for a nice interface in the near future.

http://www.popsci.com/secret-interactive-holograms-plasma-and-femtosecond-laser#

Via Deb Chachra’s Metafoundry newsletter (http://tinyletter.com/metafoundry), a piece on how a technology can disappear into the background of our lives, despite its powerful impact over thousands of years.

http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/how-textiles-repeatedly-revolutionised-technology/

Originally shared by Laston Kirkland

(Sigh) we can now modify yeasts easily to make thousands upon thousands of marvels and wonders. From new sources of fuel, to bioplastics, to a food with every protein and carbohydrate we require to be healthy.

So what’s one of the first things we do with this amazing scientific advance?

http://www.nature.com/news/engineered-yeast-paves-way-for-home-brew-heroin-1.17566