Conciencia Colectiva

The inventor, businessman, and author explains how the exponential growth of technologies will transform industries and pose new opportunities—and hurdles—for business and society. A McKinsey & Company article.

Generation 1 quantum smartcard (credit: Richard J. Hughes et al.)
A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, MIT Technology Review reports.

K. Eric Drexler is known as the founding father of nanotechnology—the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world.

 
A new report this week about signals from hypothalamus reminds us that some of the biggest influences on longevity are mediated through the nervous system.

Help astronomers locate rare gravitational lenses using a distributed collaboration tool. Massive galaxies warp space-time, bending light rays so that we can see behind them.

Brain implants to increase intellectual capabilities, control machines using thought alone, or transfer information directly into the brain are quite popular in (Brain-Computer Interfacing, Consciousness, and the Global Brain: To...

Interplanetary Internet (credit: NASA/JPL)
In his role as Google’s chief internet evangelist, Cerf has spent much of his time thinking about the future of the computer networks that connect us all.

A leading expert explores the new relationship between man and machine and the challenges that emerge when innovation is decoupled from growth in jobs and incomes. A McKinsey & Company article.

A group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, has succeeded in making further advances with SOINN, their machine learning algorithm, which can now use the internet to learn how to perform new tasks.

Human stem cell derived cortical interneuron precursors, placed into the basal ganglia region of an embryonic mouse brain slice, can follow evolutionary conserved migratory cues that guide them to migrate into the overlying cerebral cortex.

WT (Wearable Technologies) is the pioneer and worldwide leading innovation and market development platform for technologies worn close to the body, on the body or even in the body.

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Does the internet rewire your brain?
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The truth is that everything you do changes your brain. Everything.

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February the 1st is the feast of Saint Brigid. Brigid was also a Celtic Goddess, who was venerated for protection of the home from fire. Ireland is full of spring wells named after the Goddess Brig...

Crítica de Google And the World Brain, un documental de Ben Lewis sobre los riesgos de monopolio cultural debidos al proyecto de digitalización Google Books (Crítica de Google And the World Brain http://t.co/IcGmjMgHPc)...

Artificial intelligence (credit: Alejandro Zorrilal Cruz/Wikimedia Commons)
There’s a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.

A group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, has succeeded in making further advances with SOINN, their machine learning algorithm, which can now use the internet to learn how to perform new tasks.