Boning up on advances in technology

Modern societies produce new things that are simply amazing:

A team of researchers in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has managed to imitate the complex structures found in ice and mollusk shells, and the ultra-strong material could lead to everything from stronger artificial bone to airplane parts.

Anyone who has had a hip replacement or other body modification done via surgery is a transhumanist, whether he or she knows it or not. By the time I need a replacement hip, I’m hoping it will be better than the original. Some call me a dreamer. I call those people pessimists. If you study what’s happening in biotechnology, nanotechnology or just look at how quickly the lump sum of human knowledge is growing, you cannot help but see that this century will usher in momentous changes.

Many are predicting a near future singularity event. I just want to live a very long, very fulfilled life and well managed technology seems like my best bet for doing that. I’m also absolutely fascinated by what human beings, working together in voluntary cooperation, can come up with.