Originally shared by Singularity Hub
According to Peter Diamandis, our relationships with sex and dating have fundamentally changed as a result of exponential tech. Here’s how.
Sep
21
Category Archives: SFF Thought Starters
Sep
20
Watch out for something not a million miles from this in Auckland Allies book 4.
Watch out for something not a million miles from this in Auckland Allies book 4.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
Turn your tricorder into an emotion meter
In that case, the machine’s emotional predictions were correct 87% of the time. When the machine based its predictions on other people’s emotions, they were 72% accurate.
http://www.businessinsider.com/mit-radio-waves-emotions-2016-9
Sep
20
Relevant to my interests, since I’ve just finished a novel about an election for a new Representative Assembly.
Relevant to my interests, since I’ve just finished a novel about an election for a new Representative Assembly. How your parliament is laid out encodes certain assumptions about how it functions.
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/beautiful-book-reveals-architectures-impact-politics/
Sep
18
I have an uncompleted story like this, but with an uploaded person on the chip.
I have an uncompleted story like this, but with an uploaded person on the chip.
Originally shared by John Conway
Checking out the neighbors.
Sep
16
I’m going to use this (ETA: in a story).
I’m going to use this (ETA: in a story).
(FB app keeps crashing when I try to read it, and for some reason The Atlantic doesn’t have a G+ account, so I’m sharing it here partly so I can finish reading it.)
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/wi-fi-surveillance/497132/
Sep
15
Prototyping tools for farmers in Myanmar gets a lot easier when you have a 3D printed part in hand.
Originally shared by Make:
Prototyping tools for farmers in Myanmar gets a lot easier when you have a 3D printed part in hand. http://ow.ly/tZjG304fuq0
Sep
13
Who else has read Lois McMaster Bujold’s Ethan of Athos?
Who else has read Lois McMaster Bujold’s Ethan of Athos?
Originally shared by Larry Panozzo
We know it’s going to happen. Now it’s just a question of when and how accessible it will be.
Something I’d never thought about tho: Or one man could have his own child using his own cells and sperm – with that child being more like a non-identical twin than a clone. 😮 What do you guys think about that?
Sep
13
Most surprising part of this for me: you can get monkeys to transcribe written words. Monkeys.
Most surprising part of this for me: you can get monkeys to transcribe written words. Monkeys.
Originally shared by ScienceDaily
Sep
12
Via Karen Conlin. We have met alien intelligences, and they are… really cheerful.
Via Karen Conlin. We have met alien intelligences, and they are… really cheerful.
Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky
Two Black Sea bottlenose dolphins, called Yasha and Yana, were recorded talking to each other in a pool at the Karadag Nature Reserve, in Feodosia, Russia. Reserchers found that each dolphin would listen to a sentence of pulses without interruption, before replying. “Dolphins alter the volume and frequency of pulsed clicks to form individual ‘words’ which they string together into sentences in much the same way that humans speak.” “Lead researcher Dr Vyacheslav Ryabov, said: ‘Essentially, this exchange resembles a conversation between two people.'”
Sep
10
“Genetic engineering is introducing a gene from species A to species B.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
“Genetic engineering is introducing a gene from species A to species B. That’s the equivalent of replacing a red light bulb with a green light bulb. Synthetic biology is focused on designing the underlying circuitry expressing that red or green light bulb.”