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5 brain technologies that will shape our future

While some of these applications seem far off, many are closer than you might realize. Here are five emerging technologies.

Who’s Afraid Of Superhumanity?

It doesn’t matter how many superpeople there are. A world with any superpeople in it is a better world. But is this the future?

Stop Writing Dystopian Sci-Fi — It’s Making Us All Fear Technology

Artificial intelligence, longevity therapy, biotechnology, nuclear energy - it is in our power to create a brilliant world.

Tampering with nature is how humans can avoid extinction

Technology has fixed many of the problems that we've caused, greatly enhance life, and also protect us from potential natural disasters.

The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain

The final frontier of digital technology is integrating into your own brain. DARPA wants to go there. Scientists want to go there.

Responsible development of new technologies critical in complex, connected world

These technologies are not inherently safe and secure. Yet they’re nevertheless critically important because of their potential benefits.

Brain-machine interfaces as a challenge to the “moment of singularity”

We cannot flee the challenge of delaying or avoiding Ray Kurzweil's prediction. We must embrace it. That is our responsibility.

Five ways the superintelligence revolution might happen

Assuming that scientific progress continues, human-level machine intelligence is very likely to be developed. And shortly thereafter, superintelligence.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and the most thrilling period in its history.

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