Ok, sure, your immune system puts the US Dept. of Homeland Security to shame. To be fair though, it did evolve over millions of years instead of being crammed together over a few months in a bill so large that no one actually read it. This 6 minute animation from Kurzgesagt explains just part of…
Is nanotechnology the answer to AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer’s and antibiotic-resistance? [video]
This video from Wired and the World Economics Forum features the University of Oxford’s Dr. Sonia Trigueros discussing recent breakthroughs and the future potential of medical nanotechnology. For anyone who isn’t really clear on exactly what nanotechnology is, I’ve included a video from Mark Champkins of Head Squeeze which provides a quick overview in about 3.5 minutes.
Video: 10 Awesome Facts About Nanotechnology
Nanotechn is one of my favorite techs. If you have no idea what it is, think of it as tiny little robots – really, really tiny robots – smaller than a blood cell. What do the robots do? Whatever they are designed to do. Some of the current and potential applications of Nanotechnology include Google…
Radical Life Extension: Can We Live Forever Through Science
Human immortality has been one of mankind’s favorite topics seemingly forever. Most religions are, in some way, based on the promise of eternal life. Writers have speculated about it from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Dracula to Harry Potter’s Philosophers stone and scientists have looked for the key since days when the Earth was flat…
Would You Like to Be a Cyborg?
Futurists have been predicting for some time now that we will eventually be able to, literally, upload our brains to a computer. Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, predicted in June of this year that we would be able to do that by 2045 and that before the century is out our bodies would be…
Don’t Let Bad Science Hinder Progress
Humans have a deeply ingrained fear of the unknown. In recent years this has lead to technophobia and chemophobia. This makes it easy to convince people that new things are potentially dangerous. While it is important to safety test any new technology, especially bio-medical technology, we can’t let paranoia rule the day. Whether or not…
Don’t Let Bad Science Hinder Progress
Humans have a deeply ingrained fear of the unknown. In recent years this has lead to technophobia and chemophobia. This makes it easy to convince people that new things are potentially dangerous. While it is important to safety test any new technology, especially bio-medical technology, we can’t let paranoia rule the day. Whether or not…
Suggested Reading: The Wearable, Implantable, Personalized Future of Medicine
Medical science will, in the coming decades, increase human life expectancy considerably. There are already ongoing discussions about how humans will cope with immortality. A big part of that will be, what has been dubbed, P4 medicine (predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory). It will be specifically catered to your DNA and will watch for warning signs,…
Suggested Reading: The Wearable, Implantable, Personalized Future of Medicine
Medical science will, in the coming decades, increase human life expectancy considerably. There are already ongoing discussions about how humans will cope with immortality. A big part of that will be, what has been dubbed, P4 medicine (predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory). It will be specifically catered to your DNA and will watch for warning signs,…
SciShow : 3D Printing and the Future of Stuff
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I geek out over the potential of 3D printing, which I believe will be the most disruptive technology of the 21st century. Just to reemphasize the point, here’s Scishow with their intro to 3D printing. Plus, as an added bonus and to further fuel your imagination, here’s…