“Humans are off limits for now…” That line is from a 28 January MIT Technology Review detailing new experiments that have combined genetics from two same sex “parents” to create offspring.
Tag: technology
FOREVERLAND: TECH CAN’T MATCH THE BEST LONGEVITY BOOSTER
Bio hackers and gurus spending and investing on venture capital projects to produce radical tech-based life extension, are indeed becoming commonplace news in 2025, as we had forecast in our 2025 Top Trend, “WELCOME TO FOREVERLAND” (2 Jan 2025).
GETTING “OBJECTIVE” WITH ANTHROPIC’S CLAUDE
As AI companies continue to attempt to build AI which can outperform humans, driving the lion’s share of profit and power to themselves and companies that best exploit the technology, it’s interesting to see different “anthropometric” gambits.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOW ECHOES LONGTIME TRENDS JOURNAL ENERGY REALISM FORECASTS
Tech and energy sector experts are suddenly being more open about energy realism: ie, the fact that hydrocarbon fuels (long misnamed “fossil” fuels) remain the only practical path to supplying sufficient energy for major economies.
BILL GATES: AI REPLACISM IS THE FUTURE
Microsoft founder and self-styled “everything expert” Bill Gates says a book from 2023, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma, should be read by everyone.
PRESSURE TO MIND-MERGE WITH AI GROWING
The field of Psychology is busy identifying new personality types based on propensity to accept merging with AI or not.
TRUMP TO CHANGE THE CLIMATE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Energy realism will make a comeback starting this week. It’s in the cards of President Donald Trump’s second go-around as President, and even California senses the jig is up.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ARE PETS IN PLACE OF KIDS AND AI LOVERS A PART OF THAT AGE OF ABUNDANCE?
A new Age of Abundance is upon us, don’t you know. In just 10 years, a new Forbes article says, goods will be so cheap many people won’t work.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AI GETTING BETTER, HUMANS, NOT SO MUCH
New research published in the science journal Societies has taken perhaps the most detailed look yet at the effects of growing human use of and reliance on generative AI.
THE FUTURE WORLD: MORE ALIEN, OR HUMAN?
Every so often, it’s a good thing for anyone to assess how they’re doing—in life, work, and even play.