MooPig Honey Bee Department :: "Architectural Randomness"

Bees could 3D-print "concrete honey": "Manaugh stressed that the project is not a serious suggestion to modify the world's honey bees and is an observation of a possible future situation. "Our goal was simply to illustrate the spatial or architectural possibilities that would emerge from something like this," he said."
'via Blog this'

"... Geoff Manaugh: When you look at what is already happening in the worlds of bioengineering and synthetic biology, you see that animals bodies are already been trained, tweaked, or genetically altered to produce industrially useful substances. We thought, if goats can be made to produce weapons-grade spider silk by the US military and if silkworms can be guided by robots to weave architectural structures, then it didn't seem outrageous to suggest that bees could be genetically modified to produce a concrete-like adhesive substance, rather than just honey. (27 July 2014. )..."




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http://www.dezeen.com/2014/07/27/bees-3d-printing-concrete-geoff-manaugh-john-becker/
http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/architecture-by-bee-and-other-animal.html
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/28/london-without-bees-by-ben-kirk/
http://www.dezeen.com/
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/04/19/studio-libertiny-at-droog/
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/06/03/silkworms-and-robot-work-together-to-weave-silk-pavilion/
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/05/catching-my-reading-ahead-pesticide-industry-confab
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2007/08/open-source-some-follow-up-on-honey-bee.html
http://www.hcn.org/issues/342/16891
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2007/06/breaking-story-honey-bee-down.html 
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2008/03/honoring-honey-bees-with-yellow-and.html 
http://pollinator.org/multimedia.htm 
http://pollinator.org/Resources/TotalWheel%20v6%2005%2010%2007.pdf 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070125115707.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/05/bees_ani_02.html?category=travel&guid=20070205144500 
http://treehuggerbarbie.com/2012/02/29/why-is-monsanto-bad/ 
http://www.newfrontier.com/asheville/bad_seed.htm 
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/monsanto_movie080307/ 

Sunday Funnies :: "Call Me ... Alice"

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Unless referenced with a LINK or caption, Sunday Funnies is a bunch of pirated MEME's from faecesBook, YouTuber, Tweet'um and Tweet'um dee, Redditt, and other places where sources have been lost and are unknown. Give 'em Hell Henry. If you are offended then ASWC ... ask someone who cares.
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Ask+Someone+Who+Cares

MooPig Transhumanism Department :: "Kurzweil Speaks / We Listen"

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Kurzweil: ‘Human Hybrids by 2030’ - Uncommon Wisdom Daily: "After all … he who controls thought, controls the world."

'via Blog this'

Parley with us a while. Ray Kurzweil was pointed out to us six years ago by Pribek dot nation. There is no such thing as a prophet some might say, and others would point to Kurzweil, Futurist. I am convinced and for good reason, that Ray Kurzweil wields that honor today of prophet, especially in AI, Artificial Intelligence.

Think about it. We are saving bits of data that are essentially repugnant doody parts of conversations from faecesBook, comments on forked-tongue articles, and immeasurable other social networking cacophony. But there is a limit to amount of data that can be transmitted over a fiber optic cable. Yes there is, a limit up to four terabytes of data per second, after which there is dissonance on the line.

We are reaching our limits in communications. Think of a Berkeley professor who teaches communications today. Yes a liberal college, but does he teach anything other than ethics? What if there comes a time when every person on earth, all 7 billion, at one time all have the same thought, have the same song on our lips, all like the same color? It would be the hour of obliteration.

"... According to genius inventor and noted futurist Ray Kurzweil, in just 15 years humans will meld with computers ... “Our thinking then will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking,” said Kurzweil. (June 5, 2015, Brad Hoppmann. LINK) ..."

With limitations of technology, mind melding with nanobots as Kurzweil describes it, will only lead to a stopping point, a brick wall. But someone will figure a way around that too. However, if you want to continue marching to the beats of different drummers in your own life, then you better steer clear of hybridizing technologies. Otherwise you could become rather uncomfortable non-participant in the hive of a New World Order.

Kurzweil has 7 books that are now on my To Read List:

• The Age of Intelligent Machines, was published in 1990
• book on nutrition called The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life, 1993
• 1999, Kurzweil published The Age of Spiritual Machines, 
• 2004, returned to human health and nutrition. Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
• The Singularity Is Near, published in 2005,
• Kurzweil's latest book, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, was released on Nov. 13, 2012.
• Kurzweil is also writing a novel called Danielle,

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http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/kurzweil-human-hybrids-by-2030-21003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Intelligent_Machines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10%25_Solution_for_a_Healthy_Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage:_Live_Long_Enough_to_Live_Forever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Create_a_Mind
http://singularityhub.com/2015/01/26/ray-kurzweils-mind-boggling-predictions-for-the-next-25-years/