Do you want supervillains, Josiah?

Because this is how you get supervillains.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/this-biohacker-wants-to-edit-his-own-dna?utm_term=.qnxXnXMvv#.fo1BNBOLL

The future is looking kind of Chinese.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

China Is an Entrepreneurial Hotbed That Cannot Be Ignored http://suhub.co/2is1Sl6

This is a lovely shift of perspective and empowerment.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Nurse as Maker: Democratizing Medical Innovation Starts Here http://suhub.co/2yJlCXu

A lot of innovation is coming out of city governments, rather than regional or national governments. A city is large enough to do big projects, but small enough that it’s easy to see the problem and the impact of the solution.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

How ‘Humanomics’ Is Giving Cities With Vision the Tools to Realize It http://suhub.co/2zXdPtI

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Virtual Reality Is Reshaping Medical Training and Treatment http://suhub.co/2zyCVhX

A Roman Industrial Revolution isn’t completely implausible, but would have needed specific conditions.

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

https://medium.com/@MarkKoyama/could-rome-have-had-an-industrial-revolution-4126717370a2

I tend not to include drug use in my stories, partly because I’m so uncomfortable with my own consciousness being altered that I don’t even drink coffee. But this is a fascinating look into an aspect of human life I didn’t know much about: synthetic street drugs, how they’re made and identified.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16619142/designer-drugs-k2-spice-synthetic-weed-ucsf-lab-dea

You know what kind of people there aren’t enough stories about?

Old people. Healthy, vigorous old people, in particular.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

The Age Wave Is Transforming Longevity—and It’s Just the Beginning http://suhub.co/2mazUig

This is, no doubt, highly exaggerated and a lot more complex than it sounds. Growing human nervous tissue inside rats is not the same as growing “mini-brains”.

But are you going to let that stop you using it in a story?

https://www.inverse.com/article/38240-mini-brains-organoids-rats

Food for thought if you, like me, have a setting in which alternate computing mechanisms are under development.

Originally shared by HACKADAY

As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. It may surprise you that the microchip that we all know and love today was far from an obvious idea. Some of the paths that were being explored back then to cram more components into a smaller area seem odd now. But…

http://hackaday.com/2017/11/07/how-the-integrated-circuit-came-to-be/