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Have you heard of musician and DIY robot builder and technology hacker Jack Conte?

This provides a great platform for independent developers or students to test out robotic and future car concepts, machine learning based controllers, and so on.

The Jetson’s already was telling a tale of the monotony of the type of work that was performed by white collar workers in the mid 60′s. George Jetson worked for “Spacely’s Sprockets” a generic name combining the founder of the company with a “sprocket” a generic device that is never fully explained in the series.

With all the media attention and hype associated with 3-d printing and nano-tech materials it is easy to forget how useful ancient technologies like lost wax casting, solar heating, and glass truly are.

Meet Dr. Marco Bitetto a legally blind scientist researching interstellar navigation and developing a Synthetic Aperture Radar system for the blind.

Planet Four is a citizen science project designed to help planetary scientists identify and measure features on the surface of Mars

We need to stop. Take a deep breath. We need to turn our anger into discriminating intelligence and wisdom before it is too late.

While these technologies have been utilized for decades on a stand-alone basis, we will be the first to integrate them together so that the byproducts of each process become key inputs for the next. The total system is able to provide entire communities with ultra-clean burning ethanol cooking fuel, renewable electricity for area clinics, schools, shops/businesses and homes, high-protein animal feed, organic fertilizer, algae-derived biodiesel, clean drinking water, and managerial, skilled & unskilled employment opportunities.

Initially slow, cumbersome, and expensive, DNA sequencing techniques have vastly improved. In fact, over the past forty years the known DNA sequences have doubled every sixteen months, giving a logarithmic nine orders of magnitude database increase since 1965.

We can use currently existing technology applied at the bottom of society to generate a wave of abundance and thereby solve many of the worst social and economic problems we face.

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.