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[ I’ve started this article 2 years ago - will post it now even though I feel it is incomplete. ] I’d like to propose a somewhat simplified approach to eliminate aging, given early-stage molecular robots and following the SENS approach to aging. Results in …

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Chris Phoenix is writing an interesting series of articles over at CRN about the dynamics of the development of molecular engineering. His thesis, as far as I understand it after the first three articles, is that we’re likely to see a fast takeoff, because …

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I’ve been thinking about what we learned about freedom from the open-source movement. I think one of the more important benefits of freedom is that it is generative. You can glue things together in ways that create completely new things. For example, you can …

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Wired reports that Obama’s administration sided with the previous administration in a federal court filing. To all the people that said Obama’s FISA vote was political expediency - you were wrong - it’s policy. H/T: Slashdot

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Fun video with accurate structures and mechanism, although motions are not realistic (Brownian motion is not goal directed). The third video is the most involved. H/T: Eric Drexler

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First, Obama votes for FISA, effectively saying that it’s okay for AT&T and other telcos in cahoots with the president to violate the constitution by spying on people without a warrant. Then he appoints an ex-RIAA lawyer to a top DOJ post - corporate interests …

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I have previously mentioned my estimator for when human scale computation power will be available. I have since realized that the bottleneck might be memory rather than computation. I’ve created a similar estimator for memory. Although we may achieve human …

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Brian Wang writes about technologies to watch for 2009, including Memristors, high speed networking, optical computing and quantum computing.

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GitTorrent (described on Advogato) is a really distributed version control system, based on Git and BitTorrent. It seems to hold the promise of: Public keys (PGP) are used for authenticating changes No central web site for a project Easy forking of projects …

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Apparently, John Doerr recommended Bill Joy yesterday as the USA CTO to Barak Obama. Misguided relinquishment anyone? Excerpt from Joy’s article “Why the future doesn’t need us”: These possibilities are all thus either undesirable or unachievable or both. The …

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