Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:02 — 30.2MB) We had the pleasure and opportunity to interview Randal Koene on the podcast this week.  He took us deep into the reality of Substrate-Independent Minds and how current technologies exist that are paving the way to make this possible. Check out  http://carboncopies.org and http://gf2045.com to learn more and follow the great work they are doing. From  http://carboncopies.org : At carboncopies.org, we pull together the expertise and the projects that are needed to achieve what we call substrate-independent minds, SIM for short. Let me introduce SIM, what it means, what...

A “techno-optimist” response to William Deresiewicz’s article  ’The End of Solitude’ -http://chronicle.com/article/The-End-of-Solitude/3708 Just as television, with all its negative propaganda and harmful influences, can offer educational programming and a mental respite for the weary intellect, so digital technology, with its propensity for self-isolation can offer deeper connections to loved ones, and fast relief in emergency situations. Although, I agree that loneliness is indeed furthered by the continual “stream of mediated contact”, and television has no doubt perpetuated the capacity for boredom, I...

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16 year-old scientist and humanitarian Jack Andraka has already changed the world. At 15, he won the Intel ISEF Gorden E. Moore award, the $75,000 top prize, for his invention of an early stage Pancreatic Cancer diagnostic test. Being referred to “the 15 year-old who changed the course of medicine” was not enough for Jack. He wants to help more people and change more peoples lives. So, what’s next? Jack has put together a team of teenagers from across the country and entered the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE competition that will be judged and decided in the end of 2015. The goal of the Tricorder X PRIZE...