Foresight Vision – Blockchains – Master Key to Unlock the Future – Panel Zooka Wilcox, Nathan Sharma (Singularity University), Mark Miller, Nick Kritikos on how to build better realities block by block. Beyond Crypto – ICO hype and hope. Decentralized governance Zooka Wilcox is working on zCash. Bitcoin does five things now 1. Store of …
The Foresight vision weekend has its first panel Sonia Arrison, Aubrey De Grey, Max More, Kevin Perrott compare strategies to extend human healthspans – Snake oil vs the holy grail – cryonics – overpopulation vs stabilization – There is Existential Hope website is tracking all of the topics at the Vision Weekend. Increased Healthplan does …
Senate Republicans passed a $1.4 trillion tax bill. The Senate bill will have to be reconciled with house tax bill. This process is likely to be completed before christmas 2017. The Senate bill includes the following * the corporate tax rate would be permanently lowered from 35% to 20% * there is the claim that …
Space Heavy test launch next month will try to reach Mars with Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster. Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn’t blow up on ascent. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December …
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The Foresight Institute Vision Weekend is a gathering dedicated to taking stock of the most compelling ideas of today, turn them into coherent visions for a better future, and get to work on them. Saturday: Keynote panels at Gray Area. Industry-leaders deliver food for thought during panels, followed by private Q&A tables with your favorite …
IBM, other large companies and startups are working on a global shift to decentralized identity that is built on blockchain technology. This would mean a person would control their digital identity and would not need to use passwords for systems that interfaced with the ID system. Blockchain provides distributed ledger technology as the foundation for …
True immortality means living forever. Lasting forever is very hard even for a civilization or humanity. What are things that put a species or civilization at risk of ending ? We can look at the criteria for endangered species and the opposite is needed for greater immortality. 1. Reduction in population size (50-70% or more …
Experts estimate about 30,000 people per year are dying alone in Japan and many have bodies discovered weeks later. Yoshinori Ishimi, who runs the Anshin Net service that cleans up afterwards, believes the true figure is “twice or three times that” (60,000 to 90,000) A combination of uniquely Japanese cultural, social and demographic factors have …
Alibaba Group on Friday launched a 10 billion yuan (US$1.51 billion) fund to support China’s ambitious poverty alleviation campaign. The Alibaba Poverty Relief Fund will have the $1.51 billion donated over the next five years. China has already lifted more than 500 million people out of poverty after three decades of economic reforms on the …
Many believe that Bitcoin with a price over $10,000 and a market valuation of $176 billion are unstoppable and will remain the dominant cryptocurrency. In the past there were other products and companies who were commonly believed to be insurmountable in their dominance. Netscape for browsers. Internet Explorer for browsers. Yahoo in search. IBM in …