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POPS"Do Humans Have 23 years to Go?" Play Superstruct and Find Out -Invent the Future! The Institute sees super-threats are "massively disrupting global society as we know it. There’s an entire generation of homeless people worldwide, as the number of climate refugees tops 250 million. Entrepreneurial chaos and “the axis of biofuel” wreak havoc in the alternative fuel industry. Carbon quotas plummet as food shortages mount. The existing structures of human civilization—from families and language to corporate society and technological infrastructures—just aren’t enough. We need a new set of superstructures to rise above, to take humans to the next stage." The Institute says: "You can help. Tell us your story. Strategize out loud. Superstruct now." Twitter that, Galaxians. Kind of makes Malthus look like a children's book.
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POPS"Do Humans Have 23 years to Go?" Play Superstruct and Find Out -Invent the Future! “The survival horizon identifies the point in time after which a threatened population is expected to experience a catastrophic collapse,” GEAS president Audrey Chen said. “It is the point from which it a species is unlikely to recover. By identifying a survival horizon of 2042, GEAS has given human civilization a definite deadline for making substantive changes to planet and practices.” According to Chen, the latest GEAS simulation harnessed over 70 petabytes of environmental, economic, and demographic data, and was cross-validated by ten different probabilistic models. The GEAS models revealed a potentially terminal combination of five so-called “super-threats”, which represent a collision of environmental, economic, and social risks.
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POPS1st computer to crack 1 petaflops 17 Sept 07 the folding at home. distributed computer passed the 1Petaflop mark. June 28, 2008 the peak speed of the project overall has reached over 2.52 PFLOPS A flop is a FLoating-point OPeration. FLOPS are FLoating point Operations p/s. A petaflop is 1Million gigaflops (you can run the program on PS3. I knew PS3 would be useful for something some day) The first time ever by any computer. It is the largest Supercomputer in the world.
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POPSThe Body Thinks One of the dangers of some current excitement about AI etc is that it sees the brain as a supercomputer with a bit of meat hanging from it. The last couple of decades in reality show far more research and philosophy into the body as a major, inseparable aspect of thinking, and more importantly feeling, the latter, it has been cogently argued, itself the foundation of reflective thinking.
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POPSWorld-record Supercomputer Mimics Human Sight Brain Mechanisms Based on the results of PetaVision's inaugural trials, Los Alamos researchers believe they can study in real time the entire human visual cortex--arguably a human being's most important sensory apparatus. The ability to achieve human levels of cognitive performance on a digital computer could lead to important insights and revolutionary technological applications. Such applications include "smart" cameras that can recognize danger or an autopilot system for automobiles that could take over for incapacitated drivers in complex situations such as navigating dense urban traffic.
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POPSPentagon/IBM Create World's Fastest Computer A few other bits from the Times' article: The Roadrunner will consume about as much power as a large shopping mall, and is based on more than 12,000 IBM Cell microprocessors, which were originally developed for the Playstation 3.
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POPS"The FutureFinder": Scientists Decode the Super Computer Inside Our Brains This pair of signals is incredibly useful data for any robotic limbs or other extras we might add to our limited human forms - whether they be replacements for carelessly lost parts, or entirely new structures. By working from the "goal" signal the mechanical parts can swiftly prepare to move in the desired manner, preparing any components needed and checking the path for hazards, before the "trajectory" signal gets to the fine details of movement.
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POPSPlease notice the news: supercomputer slices asslump And also notice that the IRS now has supercomputers in order to control your life. So be not surprised, in the near future, if you feel like your ass is being licked by such advanced technologies... Any itches there should be noticed and preventive actions taken. Before it´s too late...
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POPSCloud Computing "Cloud computing": a buzzword describing the direction in which information infrastructure seems to be moving means - in contrast to the traditional notion of a supercomputer, with many locally connected processors - a collection of computing resources will residing somewhere on the web connected and used as needed.
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POPSOn This Day 10 Years Ago, Chess Champion Defeated By Supercomputer WN: Kasparov's request for a rematch was turned down. Why do you think that was? It looked like IBM had got good publicity but took the ball away and didn't want to play anymore. Campbell: I believe we had accomplished what we were trying to do for so many years and it was time to move on to other problems. Garry Kasparov has now retired from chess and Deep Blue is in a museum so that's not going to happen, but matches between other computers and the current world champion have taken place as recently as last year.
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POPSThe Blue Brain project A project in which using the huge computational capacity IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer a detailed model of the human brain is created.
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POPSsimulation of ratbrain This computer doesn't simulate the brain, rather it translates the simulation into visual form. The vast data sets generated by the IBM supercomputer are rendered as short films, hallucinatory voyages into the deep spaces of the mind.
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POPSWhat's The Worlds Fastest Supercomputer Used For? Regardless of what spurred the current biotechnology race, most experts agree that the logical end of the surge is a state of DNA-based medicine. In several decades, we could make an appointment with our doctor for a quick DNA analysis to find out what diseases we're at risk for and pop a single, gene-targeting pill that eliminates all of those foreseeable risks.
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