Technology Explodes

Posted: June 4th, 2008 | Author: Steve | Filed under: Technology | Comments

RepRap machine duplicates itself

There has recently been a confluence of extremely interesting news floating about in the past week, leading to some really mind-blowing conclusions:

• Scientist and inventor Ray Kurzweil has been everywhere in the past few weeks, speaking about how the exponential compounding of information will lead to an explosion of new technologies, covering all spectrums from medicine to computing, and it’s going to happen much sooner than most people think. What he is saying is very profound when you combine it with the next two bits…