Tag Archives: wonder
Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
This is a couple years old already, and considering how much I like TED and how much I like the idea of avoiding aging, I was surprised to see I hadn’t seen this before. I know it’s kinda long, but …
telescoping evolution
Keeping in the same vein as my last couple posts about accelerating technology, here’s a clip from an excellent movie called ‘waking life’, where accelerating change is talked about not only as a technological phenomenon, but an all-pervasive one. It …
going down the rabbit hole
(link) – ‘Good Magazine’ interviews Ray Kurzweil. So this is kind of off the topic of that interview, but on topic for Ray Kurzweil. If they could (and it might not be crazy to ask yourself these questions cause this …
haven’t been too many updates recently. (NEW INFINIT YES COMING SOON)
Been working on a whole new site design, will be updated daily (if I can), more professional looking and easier to navigate. Very exiting for everyone I know. I get sometimes 8 or 10 people a day (looking to expand..) …
the infinit yes brings you… the cure for cancer (applause)
When I was drinking tea and smoking a joint* this afternoon I found the cure for cancer. It’s right here: http://gizmodo.com/5501103/this-is-the-future-of-the-fight-against-cancer Since I was the one who found this website that contains the cure for cancer, I expect donations**. Thank …
any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Right? I mean show a guy 200 years ago a light bulb and he’d shit. Let alone a smart phone or laptop or airplane or fridge. So yeah, what I’m gonna talk about sounds impossible but it’s not. Nanotech May …
life extension
this isn’t what i sat down to write about but i want to get quickly back into life extension, which i touched on last time. common wisdom is that death is inevitable. but we only think that because we’ve never …
(I wrote this before I’d heard of the drake equation)
I just read that there are anywhere from 200-600 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. So I did some google searching, and saw that there are anywhere from 100-500 billion observable galaxies in the universe. That means, conservatively, in …
wonder
“Look, we all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I’m saying is, you don’t have to make stories up, you don’t have to exaggerate. There’s wonder …
how to talk to children
That’s the great thing about our universe. The more we learn about it, the more questions arise, the more unimaginable it becomes.
