Issue link: http://cp.revolio.com/i/1161
9 WWW.HPLusmAGAzINe.COm 9 WWW.HPLusmAGAzINe.COm 9 And scanning this issue of h+ magazine, we find that: Nanotech researchers have achieved real-time atom manipulation Neurobots are manifesting individual behaviors and "are just about at the edge of the amount of size and complexity found in real brains." Genescient expects to soon be able to make designer supplements containing nutrients made using detailed genomic information. … All this and gamebots are threatening to pass the Turing Test. so when I scan the evidence provided by my own magazine and website, I am, in fact, convinced that fantastic breakthroughs in NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) are happening all the time and they are starting to influence our lives. The promises and potentials for a radically different and (hopefully) far brighter future implicit in these sciences are moving quickly from theoretical possibility to laboratory breakthrough to hands-on practice. Of course, promises are made to be broken. These hopeful breakthroughs are running neck and neck with any number of disaster scenarios. There are two wild cards in this race between resource/environmental collapse and a new dawn of health, prosperity, and novelty. One of them is plain dumb luck. The only thing we can predict about the unpredictable is that it will surprise us. The other is us. It's going to take a lot of intelligence and wisdom and social-navigational skill to bring this accelerating mess of contradictions broadly describable as the human (or transhuman) condition to a reasonably soft landing with over 6 billion humans (and many other less crazy species) on board. I hope h+ is contributing to that effort. PrePare for acceleration ru sIrIus