Starting next week we will be launching a series entitled, "Can We Live Forever?" The blog series will take current concepts and expectations of scientists with different expertise from around the world and combine them in order to illustrate the immortality is more obtainable than it may seem.
Using the idea that exponential growth in medical and information technology will eventually lead us to a world where mankind does not have to worry about disease or death, this series will underscore the scientific discoveries that are paving the way towards immortality.
....... Episode 1 - The Future of Medicine
....... Episode 2 - Ray Kurzweil’s Plan for Cheating Death
....... Episode 3 - Understanding Intelligence: Mapping and Recreating the Human Brain
....... Episode 4 - Human Engineering
....... Episode 5 - Nanotechnology
....... Episode 6 - Artificial Intelligence
....... Episode 7 - Cryogenic Freezing
....... Episode 8 - Cyborg Organisms
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Is Michael Ruppert Correct in his Prediction?
A day after watching the documentary,"coLLapse," we checked the local headlines to capture today's news focus. There were a suspiring amount of articles that coincide with Michael Ruppert's "collapse" theory, where the combination of fiat currency and peak oil make the current state of capitalism unsustainable. IS THE WORLD'S FINANCIAL COLLAPSE CLOSER THAN WE THINK?
Here is what I found:
FIAT CURRENCY FAILURES -
- Wall St. Make Fallback Plans for Debt Crisis [NY Times]
- STOCKS EXPLODE AS WORLD GOES DEBT DEAL CRAZY: Here's What You Need To Know [Business Insider]
- It Has Started: Wall Street Is Preparing For A Doomsday Scenario [Business Insider]
- Morgan Stanley Posts $558 Million but Beats Expectations [NY Times]
PEAK OIL -
- Oil Reserves [Economist]
- Barack Obama and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Doing something about the price of oil [Economist]
INTERNATIONAL CHAOS -
- The Syrian Revolt Has Found Its Anthem; Listen To It Here [Business Insider]
- Government supporters have attacked the American and French embassies in Damascus [Economist]
- Syrian Forces Tighten Grip on Restive City [NY Times]
- Problems With Logistics, Coordination and Rivalries Hamper Libya's Rebels [NY Times]
- Egypt Rulers Outline Plan for Elections [NY Times]
EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS -
- Toward a Greek default [Economist]
- EURO SURGES: Sarkozy Announces New European Monetary Fund, Greece Gets Bailout [Business Insider]
- Bail-outs? Bof... [Economist]
- Can he finally get Italy motoring? [Economist]
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Documentary: coLLapse [2009]
The Michael Ruppert Story
From IMDB:
Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst?
Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Lost Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter. From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray.
Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate about the issue of "peak oil," the concern raised by scientists since the seventies that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Rupperts doesn't hold back at sounding an alarm, portraying an apocalyptic future. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded, and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments.
Resources:
+ Michael Ruppert Wiki Page
+ The Hubbert Peak Oil Theory - Wiki Page
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From IMDB:
Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new president will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst?
Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Lost Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter. From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray.
Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate about the issue of "peak oil," the concern raised by scientists since the seventies that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Rupperts doesn't hold back at sounding an alarm, portraying an apocalyptic future. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded, and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments.
Resources:
+ Michael Ruppert Wiki Page
+ The Hubbert Peak Oil Theory - Wiki Page
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Documentary: The Transcendent Man [2009]
The Ray Kurzweil Story
Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor, futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book, The Singularity is Near. In the film, Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the world as he discusses his thoughts on the technological singularity, a proposed advancement that will occur sometime in the 21st century when progress in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics will result in the creation of a human-machine civilization.
Resources:
+ Ray Kurzweil Wikipedia Page
+ Transcendent Man .com
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Transcendent Man is a 2009 documentary film by American filmmaker Barry Ptolemy about inventor, futurist and author Ray Kurzweil and his predictions about the future of technology in his 2005 book, The Singularity is Near. In the film, Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the world as he discusses his thoughts on the technological singularity, a proposed advancement that will occur sometime in the 21st century when progress in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics will result in the creation of a human-machine civilization.
Resources:
+ Ray Kurzweil Wikipedia Page
+ Transcendent Man .com
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