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Solar Satellite
2008-06-05 01:34:00 I’ve been busy and the satellite has sat here doing nothing. But I’ve got to get this thing done. So I’m going to promise something and hope you hold me to it. I had to redesign the thing to handle smaller ribbons of deposited solar material. They are up to 1 meter wide and ... More About: Satellite , Solar
Simple Vision Improvement
2008-01-22 21:14:00 A patent for an eye device is described as a lens replacement camera plus a retina stimulator to send signals to the brain. For most of us, the eye we have is good enough, but it is not as good as it could be. The lens is a simple lens with no color correction, no ... More About: General , Simple , Improvement , Vision
The Future of Human Communication
2008-01-18 21:50:00 Hi, I saw this article today from Science Daily and it reminded me of an idea I’m using in a novel. Contact lens with electronics built in. The idea is that the cell phone has developed from the old hand lifted device to the new “carry anywhere” phone of today (2008) and it will continue to ... More About: Communication , Future , Human , The Future , Augmentation
Nanocells - augment your body at the cell level.
2007-11-03 22:35:00 Nanocells - a concept based on the idea of augmenting your cells instead of trying to fix your "body". Your cells are your body. They are individuals in the sense that billions of one type make up an organ or muscle. If you know how to keep that one cell working optimally, then you probably ... More About: Body , General , Cell
Nano Food: Will it ever happen?
2007-11-02 17:33:00 After seeing the resistance to genetically engineered crops, it is hard to imagine that food produced by a nanofactory would be welcomed with open arms by everyone. I suspect that it will be the last frontier to be conquered by molecular manufacturing. And even then, only the early adopters will serve tidbits at a party ... More About: Food , General , Nano
Nano and the Drought
2007-11-02 09:13:00 The southeast USA is experiencing the worst drought they’ve seen in decades. Someone called it a 100 year drought. I doubt that nanotechnology can do anything to help at the moment, but it is a great example of what we hope to handle a decade or two from now. The drought is a ... More About: General , Nano , Drought
How Nanotech would approach the Asteroid Problem.
2007-10-09 10:36:00 To get back to nanotechnology, I wanted to address the preferred path to a nanotech solution to the asteroid problem. Let’s assume we have limited nanofactory capability at least. Around 2030, we expect a nanofactory to be capable of converting raw material (carbon, iron, oxygen, etc) into almost any object or tool. That means we ... More About: General , Problem , Asteroid , Nanotech , Aster
Relative merits of the Gravity Tractor versus the Belt
2007-10-09 09:24:00 I’ve been working on the Belt Buckle idea as an animation but I’m realizing that the gravity tractor can do the job just as well in most cases and, in the case of a rubble pile, it does it better than any other method. A gravity tractor is the process of hovering a spacecraft close ... More About: General , Versus , Ravi , The G
Power for the Asteroid Thruster
2007-09-19 22:52:00 This shows part of the power source for the thruster craft. A previous article showed the craft design, but it had no power source. It takes close to 250 KWatts to run one ion rocket. Only nuclear or solar can supply that power. I’m trying to avoid Nuclear power because you have to put a ... More About: Power , General , Asteroid , Aster
Asteroid Defense
2007-09-09 23:19:00 Hi, I’ve been busy and not posting for a long time. This is one thing I’m working on. A possible way to grab small asteroids and change their obit enough to miss the Earth. The orbital mechanics idea and much supporting data, such as what size asteroid is the most important came from the B612 ... More About: General , Defense , Asteroid , Aster
Solution for Global Warming
2007-04-28 07:20:00 To show what Nanotechnology can do once you have true molecular manufacturing capability, I will describe one method we can use to fix global warming. I realize this is a lot of hot air until we prove molecular manufacturing is real. But it does give us motivation to get there. Launch a single rocket from ... More About: Global Warming , General , Global , Ming , Solution
Nano Transportation Device
2007-04-20 22:45:00 In the early years of true nano research (when they can manipulate individual atoms and molecules ) there will be nano labs with all the equipment for a lab and test area implemented on a silicon wafer. For one reason it is cheaper to build all the lab equipment on the wafer. Easier to keep ... More About: General , Transportation , Device , Trans , Nano
Nanocells
2007-04-08 06:58:00 In my last post a cell oriented approach was offered. To explore that a bit more, lets look at what is needed. I want to call these things Nano cells. It is a human cell with augmentation. At first we need a mechanism to penetrate a random cell and set up housekeeping. The goal is to ... More About: Cell
New Cells in an Old Body
2007-03-30 20:22:00 After reading a story about what we might change in our body to live longer, it occured to me that maybe we don’t have to fix the body as a whole but maybe just the cells. It’s a matter of how you look at it. Say the task was to create a device that would ... More About: Body , Cell
Immune Systems - Layer on Layer.
2007-03-25 01:07:00 In approximately 2020, true nanotechnology will become possible. That is, we will be able to build technical devices at any scale or complexity at the molecular level. That bodes both good and bad. There are people in the world who want to control or destroy anyone who does not agree with them. I’m primarily thinking ... More About: System , Systems , Immune System , Layer , Stem
Saving Nature
2007-03-04 22:24:04 I’ve commented before on how nano will save the natural world. Maybe you don’t realize how pervasive nano will become. It will affect everything, in the same way that electronics has become a part of our lives. For instance, nano can disassemble things as well as it can assemble them. How does this affect our ... More About: Nature , Saving , Ving , Natur
The Future and the Human Animal
2007-02-22 10:16:05 We are animals. Yet we are characterized by our brain and our ability to use information. We are not rational. We are driven by emotions to satisfy the needs of an animal. Our intelligence is a tool used to accomplish that satisfaction. Our words and our intellectual concepts of self are slanted to see ourselves ... More About: Animal , Future , Human , The Future , Anima
Self Sufficiency
2007-01-31 10:07:04 The human race is in a precarious situation. The TV shows get a lot of mileage out of our nightmares of doomsday. Global warming, astroids, war, terrorists, infrastructure failure, famine, pollution, disease. At the moment we don’t have a lot of resources to handle a disaster. I mean a real disaster, not the sort of ... More About: Self
Consciousness: another view
2007-01-27 22:04:02 An article from Edge,com THE NEUROLOGY OF SELF-AWARENESS By V.S. Ramachandran gives a different slant on consciousness by pointing out that monkeys have brain cells called "mirror cells" that may have something to do with self awareness. He describes how these may be required for empathy and ultimately for consciousness. His point seems to be ... More About: Other , View , Another , Consciousness , Ness
The Singularity: A Positive viewpoint
2007-01-27 22:04:02 The last post was a negative viewpoint. Let’s see if I can balance this out. I’m very interested in the future for what good might come to pass. With great power goes great responsibility. And there are those who are working hard toward a beneficial future with nanotechnology. The guys at Responsible Nanotechnology are strongly focused ... More About: View , Viewpoint , Sing , Point , Positive
The Singularity
2007-01-27 22:04:02 Vernor Vinge created the most complete concept of the Sing ularity. He gives an introduction to the concept at his 92 article. The Singularity is the short period of time in which the level of available technology is growing so fast that human life changes too fast for any of us to comprehend the changes. This period ...
Solar Energy and Nano
2007-01-27 22:04:02 We need alternative energy to break our dependancy on oil and to slow global warming. War is almost always about competition for resources. Global warming could strain our world wide economic system to or beyound it's ability to recover. Anything we can do to create distributed sources of energy that do not harm the environment ... More About: Energy , Solar , Solar energy , Nano
Brain Augmentation: How it starts
2007-01-27 22:04:02 If you've read my first post on brain augmentation, you may have had a visceral reaction to the idea of slowly converting your brain into a machine. I don't blame you, it is a hard to swallow idea. The clone idea to get a new body also repelled me. Growing a new liver ... More About: Men , Rain , Start , Star , Tarts
Brain Augmentation via nano robots
2007-01-27 22:04:02 To return to nanotechnology, I want to explore how we will augment our own minds using nanotechnology. At this time, crude experiments using surgery are able to implant sensors onto the surface of a human brain and extract signals to control the cursor of a computer. We would like to go further and ... More About: Robot , Robots , Men , Rain , Bots
AI: The final question: Consciousness.
2007-01-27 22:04:02 I want to take up one last idea before returning to the subject of nanotechnology. I’ve seen many different definitions of consciousness and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousnes s is a great place to start. But I’m not concerned with all these definitions. I am only concerned with the practical side of myself and an AI project. So ... More About: Question , Final , Quest , Consciousness , Ness
AI - Factory manager or Design engineer?
2007-01-27 22:04:02 Continuing with this side track on AI or Artificial Intelligence, I’m interested in having advanced AI because we need them to evolve the technology. In the past, technology did not need intelligence. A hammer was a simple tool and only the operator needed intelligence if he were to avoid smashing his thumb. A more complex tool ... More About: Design , Factory , Manager , Desi , Fact
AI - The third party.
2007-01-27 22:04:02 AI will have many uses in the future, and, as some believe, will be functioning members of society. In the immediate future, I’m more interested in limited versions that supply useful service to the human race. Part of that is due to my fear that people will create human level intelligences without first ... More About: Party , Third Party , Third
Self Awareness: dreams could be the source
2007-01-27 22:04:02 Another idea I’ve been wanting to write about is, how did consciousness or self awareness start? It seems a rather complex and specialized function to evolve just so it would be there to contemplate itself. V.S. Ramachandran has suggested that consciousness may have come from observing others and trying to understand their behavior and feelings. ... More About: Dreams , Self , Source , War , Ware |
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