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KURZWEILAI.NET NEWSLETTER

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Openness and the Metaverse
Singularity
Jamais Cascio
11/07/2007
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The four worlds of the Metaverse
Roadmap could also represent four
pathways to a Singularity. But they
also represent potential dangers. An
"open-access Singularity" may be the
answer. The people who have embraced
the possibility of a singularity
should be working at least as hard
on making possible a global
inclusion of interests as they do on
making the singularity itself
happen, says Jamais Cascio.
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NEWS
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Research team makes progress toward
'printing' organs
PhysOrg.com Nov. 6, 2007
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Gabor Forgacs, the George H.
Vineyard Professor of Physics in the
University of Missouri-Columbia, has
been working to refine the process
of "printing" tissue structures of
complex shape with the aim of
eventually building human organs. In
the latest study, a research team
led by Forgacs determined that the
process of building such structures...
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Discovering new properties in
carbon nanotubes
PhysOrg.com Nov. 6, 2007
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The European-based Pullnano project
is currently working on developing
chip features as small as 22nm. But
a point will inevitably be reached
when it is simply no longer
economically feasible to continue to
reduce the minimum feature size to
make space for more transistors.
Gilles Thomas, the director of R&D
Cooperative Programs at...
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How a Tumor Is Like an Embryo
Technology Review Nov. 6, 2007
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The dominant mechanism of cancer
metastasis may involve the ability
of cancer cells to resurrect early
embryonic behavioral programs, which
they do through their ability to
induce the expression of early
embryonic transcription factors....
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Mechanosynthesis toolset is
important new step toward the
nanofactory
KurzweilAI.net Nov. 6, 2007
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A set of nine molecular tools for
diamond mechanosynthesis (molecular
assembly) -- a significant new step
toward creating the nanofactory --
was presented by Robert A. Freitas
Jr. and Ralph C. Merkle at
Saturday's Foresight Unconference.
The DCB6Ge dimer placement tool
places two carbon atoms onto the
C(110) face of a dehydrogenated
diamond...
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