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[Brian Atkins]

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Subject: KurzweilAI.net Daily Newsletter
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:00:07 -0400
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BT Futurist: AI entities will win
Nobel prizes by 2020
Computerworld Oct. 17, 2007
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"We will probably make conscious
machines sometime between 2015 and
2020," says British Telecom futurist
Ian Pearson. "But it probably won't
be like you and I. It will be
conscious and aware of itself and it
will be conscious in pretty much the
same way as you and I, but it will
work in a very different way. It
will be an alien. It will be a...
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Internet preparing to go into outer
space
PhysOrg.com October 17, 2007
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The Internet is now set to spread
into outer space. Internet
co-creator Vinton Cerf said the
proposed "interplanetary" Internet
would allow people "to access
information and to control
experiments taking place far away"
from Earth. "Eventually we will
accumulate an interplanetary
backbone to assist robotic and
manned missions with robust...
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The Future of Electronic Paper
The Future of Things Oct. 15, 2007
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Electronic paper is now closer than
ever to changing the way we read,
write, and study -- a revolution so
profound that some see it as second
only to the invention of the
printing press in the 15th century.
Made of flexible material, requiring
ultra-low power consumption, cheap
to manufacture, and most important,
easy and convenient to read,...
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Chromosome caps may explain cell
immortality
NewScientist.com news service Oct. 17, 2007
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Telomeres in DNA make RNA copies
and a drug might block this process
to prevent cells turning cancerous,
Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology researchers have found....
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Virus-Built Electronics
Technology Review November/December 2007
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Angela Belcher, a professor of
materials science and biological
engineering at MIT, is assembling
nanomaterials with the help of
innocuous viruses genetically
engineered to bind to and organize
inorganic materials. The research
could lead to threadlike batteries
and photovoltaics that can be woven
into clothing, for...
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