A New York artist has been collecting DNA samples from the streets via discarded cigarette butts and gum to find out what that person might look like. A computer program analyzes the sample which feeds the image to a 3D printer that makes the sculpture.
Awesome or somewhat creepy? What do you guys think? More info: http://bit.ly/12zbade Photo credit: Heather Dewey-Hagborg |
Any creatures who will be alive to witness the death of the sun won’t be human—they could be as different from us as we are from protozoa. Indeed future evolution is going to take place not on the Darwinian time scale, of natural selection, but on the technology time scale, because we’re obtaining the capacity to modify the genome.
Add accelerating evolutionary processes to cosmological deep time, and a future when intelligence has evolved beyond humans, indeed, a future far surpassing even our wildest guesses becomes an inevitability—if our descendants can make it that far.... http://singularityhub.com/2014/07/20/humans-arent-the-pinnacle-of-evolution-and-consciousness-were-only-the-beginning/ |
