We open the Carnival this week with this image entitled “Home” from 3-D passion.
J. Random American explains that fan films hint at the ways we will spend our free time in the future.
If Aubrey de Grey holds SENS II, and the media ignores it, did it make a sound? I exaggerate, but not by much. I’m aware of only one MSM article on the conference.
[SENS stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence - this was a conference on the science of human life extension - ed.]
So Blogger Kevin Perrott performed an invaluable service by blogging the event. He promises more on the subject after he recovers from the marathon conference, but his first impressions were very, very positive:
…the feeling of the eclectic and high-level group of individuals who attended was electric. The conversations at the final evening were filled with the sound of the positive connections and exchanges which one hears at the beginning of something. We all knew that underneath the data, below the hard science, that something is moving and that the fields represented there were in the ascendant.
One thing shared by ALL of us which was amazingly apparent as we broke up to return to our respective lab benches, computers and studies, was the renewed vigor to pursue our research knowing that although the search for truth is ever at the base of scientific pursuit, the application of that research for the alleviation of suffering is becoming more possible than ever, and we are in the vanguard of this increasingly evident army that is assaulting ancient biological challenges.
Will we achieve these goals within my lifetime? Will ‘negligible senescence’ be realized, perhaps even for my parent? If the trajectory we saw at SENS II is maintained, there is no doubt in my mind these goals will be reached and that the chance for near term anti-aging is high.
Metacool writes that “Nano is the new Turbo,” saying basically that the term jumped the shark with the new Ipod Nano.
…nano is the new turbo, another technical term appropriated by marketing people and applied in so many ways as to make it meaningless.
This is part of the “fake nanotech” Phil mentioned awhile back. I’m sure that this new iPod has circuitry that could arguably be called nanotech, but it’s hardly “spooky.”
Howard Lovy started a new job, but we lost an outstanding nanoblogger. Read all about it.
Godspeed Howard.
It appears that embryonic stem cell lines have an expiration date.
FuturePundit has the story.
Google Blog Search beta is out!
Josh Cohen at Multiple Mentality sounds resigned to high gas prices, but he offers some suggestions.
And Engineer Poet comments.
Speaking of Engineer Poet, don’t miss his energy article at The Ergosphere, “A Lever and a Place to Stand.”
Michael Kanellos reports that the Dartmouth’s new small robot measures 60 microns wide and 250 microns long. This is not quite a nanobot yet, a micron is 1000 nanometers.
Here’s the original Dartmouth press release.
Andrian Bowyer continues to make remarkable progress on his RepRap project.
When completed the RepRap will be a fab lab that is capable of reproducing most of its own parts. The promise this holds for wealth creation and unleashing creativity is staggering.
Pictured at the right is the newly completed extruder head – analogous to a printer head for 3-D products.
Make sure to visit the RepRap blog to keep up to date.
If you think fabbing your own products is still years away, think again. Writer Clive Thompson recounts for Wired his experience fabbing an electric guitar via eMachineShop.
If that’s not enough great future blogging, stick around here for more:
And, of course, our Second Blogiversary post.
If the Carnival seemed a little less polished this week, blame me. Phil is traveling today.
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