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"Technology has taken us places we've only dreamed, empowering us to make the impossible possible."
Technology that enables human creativity
Shapeways | YouTube
The Internet unlocked the world of bits. 3D printing is unlocking the world of atoms.
Chris Dixon
YouTube
When robots inevitably take over, cows will be the first things they take control of.
Ricardo Bilton | VentureBeat
Will Change the World for the Better
It Creates New Demand, New Jobs
Human creativity and innovation have always propelled us forward.
Innovation has created jobs.
Innovation has raised living standards.
Innovation has made our lives healthier and more rewarding.
Nanorobots Seek Human Blood Cells
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The Chief Economist at General Electric, Marco Annunziata, examines the impact of the Industrial Internet on Jobs and the Economy
Marco Annunziata | TED | YouTube
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center, working with their collaborators at the Hospital for Special Surgery, have created a fleet of molecular “robots” that can home in on specific human cells and mark them for drug therapy or destruction.
The nanorobots—a collection of DNA molecules, some attached to antibodies—were designed to seek a specific set of human blood cells and attach a fluorescent tag to the cell surfaces.
Robot Imitates Tumbleweed
Watch the Animation: A molecular robot (automaton) in action. Image: Milan Stojanovic.
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NASA
This system would be completely different. It sports a semi-rigid but flexible structure, that can distribute the force from an impact at one point all over its system.
Pre-Cogs: Precognitive humans, their brain waves tapped by computers
A team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View has devised a strange, flexible "super ball bot" concept that could take a rough landing on another world’s surface and use the same structure to start rolling like a tumbleweed around the terrain.
Amina Khan | The Los Angeles Times
TranscendentalProdco
Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" is a triumph--a film that works on our minds and our emotions. It is a thriller and a human story, a movie of ideas that's also a whodunit.
Roger Ebert | RogerEbert.com
Progress in Technology is Exponential, Not Linear
My main message is that progress in technology is exponential, not linear. Many -- even scientists -- assume a linear model, so they'll say, "Oh, it'll be hundreds of years before we have self-replicating nano-technology assembly or artificial intelligence."
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If you really look at the power of exponential growth, you'll see that these things are pretty soon at hand.
Ray Kurzweil | TED
TED | YouTube
"The Cost of Living is Free"
Federico Pistono | Wall Street Journal | YouTube
Peter Diamandis responds to Robert Reich
Share Innovation ... Creativity ... Ideas
Internet.org
Mark Zuckerberg | Internet.org
The Future of the World Economy is a Knowledge Economy
Watch the Video as Mark Zuckerberg explains what Facebook and their partners are doing to make Internet access available to the two thirds of the world not yet connected.
Industrial Revolution Created Jobs
In the 18th century there was a commitment to new ideas, new devises, new machines, new processes.
Jeremy Black | BBC TWO
Documentary Channel 13 | YouTube | BBC-TWO
I Feel Like Someone's Watching Me
Mashable | YouTube
It can be quite startling at times when you turn to see a robot looking over your shoulder as you work.
Blows My Mind
Hilary Hanson | The Huffington Post
A virtual sex simulator debuted in Japan.
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The device attaches a Novint Falcon—a grip-based, haptic controller—to a Tenga, a Japanese industrial masturbator. Used as intended, the user would insert his penis into the Tenga, which would be manipulated by the Falcon. All the while...
Arachnophobics Beware
ARMAND VALDES | Mashable
I saw my boss' face featured prominently on the iPad's screen, whizzing around the office.
Adam shows off the special box and platform he built to tinker and calibrate the spider, and then sends it crawling around the pool table in his shop. It's not for the arachnophobic!
Check out his latest obsession, a robot spider with incredibly realistic movement.
Inside Adam Savage's Cave | YouTube
More Robot Cops
Watch a trailer for Almost Human, the futuristic and action packed new series from J.J. Abrams & J.H. Wyman
Robot Chats ... from Space
The Telegraph | YouTube
Footage released on Thursday shows the first humanoid robot in space making small talk with the commander of the International Space Centre ...
Thinking Machines
Japan's robot astronaut Kirobo has performed its first mission at the International Space Station
Kirobo is holding a series of conversations with a Japanese astronaut and keeping him company.
The Telegraph | Science | Space
IBM
To See how far virtual reality will actually go, we visited Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab.
Manufacturing
Paul Solmon | PBS NewsHour
IBM Research
Cognitive computing systems learn and interact naturally with people to extend what either humans or machine could do on their own. They help human experts make better decisions by penetrating the complexity of Big Data.
Cognitive computing systems use image and speech recognition as their eyes and ears to understand the world and interact more seamlessly with humans ....
Virtual Reality. It's Unreal!
PBS NewsHour | YouTube
by Steve Croft | CBS 60 Minutes
Now they're finally here, but instead of serving us, they are competing for our jobs.