Call the Singulary University a Super-sized Futurist Startup Bootcamp

Jamais Cascio does not like the Singularity University and suggests a Futurist liberal arts program. No corporate executive will pay $25,000 for future social studies/liberal arts crash course with a future twist. The target is Singularity executive MBA and advanced tech business brainstorming. People who have money or super techie geeks who have money or …

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Cyclone External Combustion Engines and DARPA Self-Fueling Robots

Cyclone Green Revolution Engine can burn any fuel and use any heat source (even focused sunlight) The Schoell cycle engine is a cross between a Rankine, Diesel and Carnot cycle engine. Rankine cycle is sometimes referred to as a practical Carnot cycle as, when an efficient turbine is used, the TS diagram will begin to …

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Nuclear News: Dawning of the Age of Thorium, Six Reactors for India and Progress to Laser Enrichment

1. Dawning of the age of Thorium? From Resource Investor: I am personally aware of the fact that, even as I write, major American, Canadian, French and British nuclear engineering companies are forming strategic alliances to seek funding under Hatch-Reid to go forward with the development of thorium-based nuclear power reactors for the production of …

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Toward City Scale Robotic Car Systems: Abu Dhabi Trackless Podcar City, Robotic Warehouses

This is a rendering of the vision of Masdar City. A small army of workers and heavy equipment currently inhabit the 6.5 square kilometer site of the future eco-city. Abu Dhabi will be making a podcar, personal rapid transit, system in its new Masdar City. The PRT vehicles will travel at speeds of approximately 7 …

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Sputnick The Iranian Sequel : Iran Launches Its First Domestic Satellite

Iran said it launched its first domestically produced satellite, an event likely to prompt new Western concerns about its development of technology with possible military applications. Sputnick was launched October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union. The surprise launch of Sputnik 2, coupled with the spectacular failure of the United States’ first two Project Vanguard …

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Eric Drexler Discusses the Nanotechnology Path from Self Assembly to Strongly Guided Mechanical Assembly

Drexler is discussing stages of increasing control over self assembly. This will set up a later post where he will discuss strong control over self assembly. He will show a quantitative measure which will rank the selection of suitability of material for strongly controlled self assembly. The general ranking of suitability of material for strongly …

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Singularity University Will Open June 2009

Singularity University (SU) (www.singularityu.org) will open its doors in June 2009 on the NASA Research Park campus with a nine-week graduate level interdisciplinary curriculum designed to facilitate understanding, collaboration, and innovation across a broad range of carefully chosen scientific and technological disciplines. The curriculum will be broken out into 10 tracks as follows: * future …

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DOE Will Get 20 Petaflop Supercomputer From IBM in 2011. Need Your Own Supercomputer ? Learn the Tricks of the Beowolf Supercomputer King

IBM has promised the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration a 20 petaflop supercomputer that is scheduled for delivery in 2011. The supercomputer will be called Sequoia. The computer should be ten times more energy efficient per calculation than current supercomputers. Can’t Afford IBM Supercomputers Consider DIY SupercomputersCan’t afford IBM Supercomputers ? Consider following the example …

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Coal Pollution Linked to High Birth Defects : Won’t SomebodyThink of the Children ?

“The problem of birth defects is related to environmental pollution, especially in eight main coal zones,” said An Huanxiao, the director of Shanxi provincial family planning agency. The comments came as the Chinese government announced that it has launched a screening programme in the eight worst affected areas of the country to establish the extent …

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