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December 26, 2013 Transhumanism will change everything

This is spooky stuff, but its real and its alreadyhappening. Humans are augmenting themselves with computers and technology that will expand their abilities, and its going to get more advanced and morally complex as timepasses. Imagine transplanting your entire consciousness into a computer. Thats a new type of immortality. Imagine having a robotic exoskeleton thats not just part of your body itisyour body. Thats a new type of existenceentirely. An excellent documentary called Bionics, Transhumanism, And The End Of Evolution takes a look at the endless wonder and potential of what happens when blood-and-meat humanity meets steel-and-silicon technology. (San Francisco Gate)

Silicon Valley keeps spawning micro-storytelling genres from six-second Vines to 140-character tweets that are each more popular than the next. But that hardly means those mini-formats can properly capture the controversies, personalities, ramifications and dangers of the tech worlds many characters and their creations. For that, we can turn to another invention that compiles tens of thousands of discreet pieces of data into a kind of Facebook for words: books. (Huffington Post)

AI & Society(Volume 28, No. 4, December 2013) is now available online by subscription only.

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Futurists have long speculated that nanotechnology the engineering of materials and devices at the molecular scale will revolutionize virtually every field it touches, medicine being no exception. Heres what to expect when you have fleets of molecule-sized robots coursing through your veins. (Io9)

On the eve of Doctor Whos 50th anniversary, a bioethics researcher at the University of Leicester claims that one of the Doctors most fearsome villains the Cybermen represent public concerns about the greater use of technology in medicine. In their article The Cybermen as Human, Dr Chris Willmott from the Universitys Department of Biochemistry and his former Research Assistant, Bonnie Green, reflect on ways in which the Doctors metal-clad foe can offer insight into human enhancement and the development of the posthuman. (Phys.org)

Heres controversial Cybernetics Professor, Kevin Warwick, on the future of worker productivity. His chilling warning: If we dont wake up, countries like China will soon be producing cyber-enhanced super-employeesworkers who far outclass even the most capable employee here at home. Will tomorrows resume need to include your version number? (Forbes)

Humanity today faces incredible threats and opportunities: climate change, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and much, much more. But some people argue that these things are all trumped by one: artificial intelligence (AI). To date, this argument has been confined mainly to science fiction and a small circle of scholars and enthusiasts. Enter documentarian James Barrat, whose new book, Our Final Invention, states the case for (and against) AI in clear, plain language. (Huffington Post)

The Journal of Medical Ethics(Volume 39, No. 11, November 2013) is now available online by subscription only.

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Space Science Stories to Watch in 2014

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Orion moves towards its first EFT-1 spaceflight later this year. (Credit: NASA)

Theres an old Chinese proverb that says, May you live in interesting times,and 2013 certainly fit the bill in the world of spaceflight and space science. The past year saw spacecraft depart for Mars, China land a rover on the Moon, and drama in low Earth orbit to repair the International Space Station. And all of this occurred against a landscape of dwindling budgets, government shutdowns that threatened launches and scientific research, and ongoing sequestration.

But its a brave new world out there. Here are just a few space-related stories that well watching in 2014:

An artists conception of ESAs Rosetta and Philae spacecraft approaching comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (Credit: ESA-J. Huart, 2013)

Rosetta to Explore a Comet: On January 20, 2014, the European Space Agency will hail its Rosetta spacecraft and awaken it for its historic encounter with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko later this year in August. After examining the comet in detail, Rosetta will then dispatch its Philae lander, equipped complete with harpoons and ice screws to make the first ever landing on a comet. Launched way back in 2004, Rosetta promises to provide the cosmic encounter of the year.

The October 19th, 2014 passage of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Springs past Mars. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

A1 Siding Springs vs. Mars: A comet discovery back in 2013 created a brief stir when researchers noted that comet C/2013 A1 Siding Springs would make a very close passage of the planet Mars on October 19th, 2014. Though refinements from subsequent observations have effectively ruled out the chance of impact, the comet will still pass 41,300 kilometres from the Red Planet, just outside the orbit of its outer moon Deimos. Ground-based observers will get to watch the +7th magnitude comet close in on Mars through October, as will a fleet of spacecraft both on and above the Martian surface.

A recent tweet from @NewHorizons_2015, a spacecraft that, ironically, launched just weeks before Twitter in 2006.

Spacecraft En Route to Destinations: Though no new interplanetary missions are set to depart the Earth in 2014, there are lots of exciting missions currently underway and headed for worlds yet to be explored. NASAs Dawn spacecraft is headed towards its encounter with 1 Ceres in February 2015. Juno is fresh off its 2013 flyby of the Earth and headed for orbital insertion around Jupiter in August 2016. And in November of this year, New Horizons will switch on permanently for its historic encounter with Pluto and its retinue of moons in July 2015.

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