An update from the Long Now Foundation, funded by Jeff Bezos, on the construction of a clock that will run for 10000 years :
Here are a couple of other videos about the project:
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Category Archives: Science and Technology
Sci-Tech videos: Robots opening a door, following a jogger, and transporting people by air
** This new Boston Dynamics video of a robot opening a door is getting a lot of views:
** Perhaps Boston Dynamics will one day offer 4-legged robot pets to follow you around the way Skydio‘s drones can hover above you: Drones that dodge obstacles without guidance can pursue you like paparazzi – MIT Technology Review
** The latest update from EHANG of China on the EHANG 184, an autonomously-piloted electric air taxi for short trips for 1 to 2 persons, reports that they are now flying people on test flights:
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Video: TMRO Discovery 01.02: Why Artificial Intelligence will change our future
The second TMRO.tv Discovery program is on line – Science: Why Artificial Intelligence will change our future – Discovery 01.02
In the second episode of TMRO:Science, Lisa, Jade and Athena discuss the current state of artificial intelligence, the ethical dilemmas possible, how AI can both help and hinder humanity and what this might mean for our future. Live episodes air the first Saturday of each month at 20:00 UTC. News: Baby Bruce Lees: Womb Kicks Strengthen Fetal Skeletons Spintronic diamonds! Microbes turn human waste into Vegemite Do video games cause violence? NOPE. Quantum race!
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SciTech video: Commercial fusion power ventures panel – General Fusion, Tri-Alpha Energy, & Lockheed-Martin
An interesting discussion for a general public audience about three different commercial approaches to nuclear fusion power systems that could go on line within 10-15 years: Nuclear Fusion: Reacting To Commercialization – VLAB
- Moderator: Rachel Slaybaugh, APRA-E Program Director and Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
- Michel Laberge, Founder and Chief Scientist, General Fusion
- Matthew Thompson, Director of Physics, Tri Alpha Energy
- Tom McGuire, Research Engineer and Scientist, Lockheed Martin
- Ray Rothrock, Former General Partner, Venrock, Chair of NVCA, and CEO of Redseal
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Space book: “Treknology” by Ethan Siegel
In astrophysicist Ethan Siegel’s new book Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive
And how about that most Star Trek of Star Trek transport modalities — the transporter? Siegel manages to be both concise and complete in his discussion of the various ways a transporter might work. Do you actually move all the atoms of your body from one place to another? Or do you just transport the information about those atoms and then rebuild the body? These questions allow Siegel to unpack some basics of quantum physics, like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. From there, he opens discussions of information and quantum computing with questions like: How can you map the atoms in your body for transport when you can’t know exactly where they are leading? All of these ideas are laid out at just the right level for a light-hearted science book about science fiction.
Treknology is pretty complete. It has a section on weapons and defense (deflector shields, phasers), a section on computing (the holodeck, androids) and a section on medicine and biology (recorders, cybernetics). There is a lot more, too, and each chapter in each section is richly illustrated with images from the shows and well-composed scientific diagrams. That means a lot of eye-candy here for both Trek and science fans.
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