Expandable future car
Archive for October, 2010
by Ray Kurzweil: Reverse-Engineering The Human Brain
Alberto Dubois says
we will be able to achieve the power of the brain
of all humanity, for only 100 dollars!
From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs to Silicon Valley, researchers are manipulating particles at the atomic level, ushering in potential cures for cancer, clothes that don’t stain, and solar panels as thick as a sheet of paper.
Nano Supermarket on Dutch Evening News
Productive Nano systems – The Nanofactory
Alberto Dubois is an Economist, MBA at IESE, and a graduate at the legendary Singularity University in Palo Alto. Former manager and entrepreneur, he is a partner in technology startups, and invests in emerging listed companies, especially in the sectors of energy, biotech and nanotech.
Alberto Dubois says we have never really been able to forecast the future. And today, even less. Because today to forecast the future means to think exponentially and the human being is wired to think in a linear way, as in the past of humanity changes happened every billion years. But in 21st century things are different. The computing power grows exponentially, and more and more so. In a few years, we will be able to achieve the power of the brain of all humanity, for 100 dollars. This will bring major changes, this will bring singularity. It is very important to learn to think exponentially, as this is the only way of thinking which will help us solve the biggest problems of humanity: energy, water, food, environment. Information applied to biology is bringing new marvels, like DNA secuencing in 20 minutes for 100 dollars, personalized medicine, organs printing. Nanotechnology is also fast developing, and we know more and more about the human brain. When we will know all of it, we will be able to have a real AI and solve our big problems. Future can be many things, for Alberto is a promise for sure.
The Tianhe-1 can perform 2,507 petaflops per second. It has 1.4 times the horsepower of the United States’ fastest machine, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Cray XT5 Jaguar in Oak Ridge
Roadrunner Supercomputer Breaks the Petaflop Barrier
ARTICLE POSTED DECEMBER 1, 2009 AT FURTUREPREDICTIONS.COM
At 3:30 a.m. on May 26, 2008, Memorial Day, the “Roadrunner” supercomputer exceeded a sustained speed of 1 petaflop/s, or 1 million billion calculations per second. The sustained performance makes Roadrunner more than twice as fast as the current number 1 system on the TOP500 list. The best sustained performance to date is 74.5% efficiency, 1.026 petaflop/s.
“Petaflop/s” is computer jargon—peta signifying the number 1 followed by 15 zeros (sometimes called a quadrillion) and flop/s meaning “double-precision floating point operations per second.” Los Alamos held the fastest supercomputer title in 1993 with the Thinking Machines CM-5, and inaugurated the supercomputer era, assisting in the development of the
Cray-1 in 1976. The Laboratory and IBM go all the way back to the first card-programmable calculators, used at Los Alamos in 1949. Los Alamos also housed serial number 1 of the IBM 704 in 1956.The Roadrunner supercomputer, developed by IBM in partnership with the Laboratory and the National Nuclear Security Administration, uses commercially available hardware, including aspects of commercial game console and graphics technologies. Because of its off-the-shelf components, the computer costs significantly less than a one-of-a-kind machine. It also uses a Linux operating system.
http://www.lanl.gov/roadrunner
Using breath-analysis software and mouth-movement observations, engineers in Japan have taught a robot how to sing. The divabot, an with a creepily realistic tilting head, blinks and opens her mouth as she croons, even mimicking the facial expressions of the human singer. Researchers used a real singer as a model, recording her every move as she sang.
