The natural intelligence emerging out of nature (such as swarm intelligence) has been around for eons. Human collaborative intelligence has been around for millennia. What makes the 21st century uniquely significant and complex is the addition of Enhanced Computer Intelligence. How these incredibly powerful, driving forces interact, and what “greater” intelligence might emerge, will determine...
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Ready for manufactured meat?
In September, China announced that it signed a deal to buy $300 million of meat from Israel. This raised eyebrows for two reasons. First, Israel isn’t known as the Pampas of the East; you don’t see vast hordes of beef cattle munching their way across grasslands in a country that’s 60 percent desert. Second, this...
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Current methods of producing meat demand more land, water and feed than can be sustained to meet humanity’s increasing numbers and, with it, the demand for meat. “Clean meat” slashes the land, water and nutrition needed to make the world’s preferred source of protein while also easing people’s consciences about humane animal treatment. Factory meat...
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Send my daughter to China?
I had a very excited phone call from a family friend. She wanted to tell me about a wonderful opportunity. A new organization was offering to send Australian students to China to stay with families and help their children learn English. The organizer would pay airfares and all other trip costs. The first batch of...
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Celente on China’s rise, America’s decline
Global forecaster Gerald Celente and his Trends Research Institute identified and have for years tracked the “Buy, Sell China” trend. While China has the world’s largest population, unlike the Made-in-USA multicultural label and pro-military-industrial-complex spending, China’s investors and its government seek innovation. Across the investment spectrum, China either drives innovation, especially in technology realms, or...
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Almost all Australian politicians rejoice in China being Australia’s biggest trading partner. They are happy to talk about China and free trade, but you won’t hear much from them about the lack of freedom in Tibet or anywhere else under China’s communist rule. The major political parties seem happy with the way things are. But...
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Gaining on Alzheimer’s: A.I. to the rescue
As many as one in three elderly Americans develop Alzheimer’s Disease. But, until recently, there’s been no way to accurately predict the illness. That means that doctors couldn’t be sure which treatment to try. Now bioscientists at Italy’s University of Bari Aldo Moro have used artificial intelligence to pick out telltale hints of Alzheimer’s in...
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The combination of early diagnosis and effective treatment could detect, then halt, Alzheimer’s before it becomes a debilitating condition. Treatments based on ApoE protein reduction could be in clinical trials by 2030.
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Breakthroughs for stalled stem-cell research
So far, stem cells haven’t lived up to their promise of regenerating failed organs and correcting genetic defects. Although stem cells can become any type of cell the body needs, isolating them and directing their metamorphosis can be risky and unpredictable. Besides, there are relatively few sources — human embryos among them — from which...
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Stem cells are likely to be a key to curing or reversing a range of disease by 2050. New sectors of the bioscience and healthcare industry will be created around stem-cell treatments.