Conciencia Colectiva

Substrate Independence
The term substrate-independence denotes the philosophical thesis of Functionalism – that what is important about the mind and its constitutive sub-systems and processes is their relative function.

The Future of Intelligence
By Cadell Last
Human intelligence, like everything related to biological systems, is an evolving phenomenon. It has not been static in the past, and will not persist in its current form into the future.

TouchMover (credit: IEEE Spectrum)
Microsoft Research is developing a prototype of a haptic feedback touch screen called TouchMover, IEEE Spectrum reports.

The research is described in a recently published cover paper in Advanced Functional Materials (credit: Wiley) Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed  a highly sensitive exhaled-breath sensor,...

Warface (credit: Crytek)
Hours spent at the video gaming console probably train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers.

Lone Signal believes that crowd sourcing messaging to intelligent life (METI) is the ideal approach to establishing a stable, cohesive, and well-resourced interstellar beacon on Earth.

Humanoid robotics development is moving at an ever increasing pace; major corporations, scientists, and independent researchers are creating our future today in laboratories around the world.  From Honda’s Asimo to Boston dynamics Petman, humanoid...

Thomas Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence,  is one of the leading thinkers in the realm of anticipating how new technologies will transform the way work is done and leaders lead.

Atoms, coupled to a glass fiber – the basis of the worldwide communication network of the future?

Controlling magnetic clouds in graphene (credit: The University of Manchester)
A University of Manchester team led by Dr.

Infographic: The Future of Mobility
PC Magazine
Technology is a crafty game of predictions: What will be the next global trend? When will we all receive brain-chip transplants? Is the meme/GIF really a passing phase?

Earlier this month I gave the opening keynote at Crowdsourcing Week on Connecting the Crowd: The Future of Creativity and Innovation.
Here are the slides for my keynote.

A bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union — are demanding swift action from Congress in...

This image shows the changes that took place in the brain for all patients participating in the study using a brain-computer interface. Changes in activity were distributed widely throughout the brain.

Tissue-engineered heart valve (credit: HIA/Wikimedia Commons)
Professor György K.B. Sándor believes that tissue engineering can become a new global export item.

Nous, philosophes, sociologues, économistes, politologues, ingénieurs, donnons l’alerte.
La société humaine engage une nouvelle métamorphose, le numérique en est le déclencheur et le guide.

Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death reveals that death is not a moment in time. Death, rather, is a process—a process that can be interrupted well after it has begun.

IBM BlueGene/Q (credit: IBM) To handle large amounts of data from detailed brain models used in the Blue Brain Project and the Human Brain Project, IBM Research, EPFL, and ETH Zürich are collaborating on a new hybrid memory strategy for...

Representative images illustrating the time course of the conversion of H1 ESCs (stem cells) into iN (nerve) cells. Corresponding differential interference contrast (DIC) and GFP fluorescence pictures are shown on top and bottom.

The Australian Financial Review is today running a special feature on the world to 2100, including an article on technology trends titled Connecting to a rising tide of data.