Transhuman Singularity

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Today is a black day for the Internet.

And Wikipedia.

I spell the Internet with a capital "I" because it is a force which has changed my life for the better.    I write three blogs about science fiction, futurism and virtual worlds and have an additional business entrepreneur website that helps people who cannot speak, to speak again with a medical app.

The idea that media companies, including record labels, TV networks, movie studios, and book publishers, companies with an interest in fighting piracy of other counterfeit goods, such as beauty-products and pharmaceutical companies should change the Internet to better suit themselves is just repulsive to me on a gut level.   The Internet is changing the world in a positive manner, read your news, towards democracy and freedom of speech.    Don't try to correct the Internet, its doing it's job naturally and very well thank you.

Bringing humanity together in new and brilliant ways.    Piracy is stealing and you should know better. Support open source software instead.   Don't change the Internet for the worse because of a negative influence.    Reject these laws SOPA & PIPA, think again and think differently, think freedom of speech damn it!

The idea that corporate America wants to change it to protect their products is down right evil and that Congress would allow it is contemptuous of the very constitution upon which this country is founded.    Censorship is a bad bad thing, much worse than piracy and even corporate greed.

Think about it, form your own conclusions, you have a free mind still, use it.   If you feel the same way I do, speak up now.    I stand up to defend and support the Internet, for it has given me and others so much in return, I hope you do too . . .   Strong words for difficult times, just so you know what side I'm on.

A number of videos around this post do not necessarily represent my views, but support my conclusion that SOPA and PIPA need to be rejected now.    Do something, use the Internet to contact your Congressman.

Conway's Game of Life (Run Java for viewing patterns)

VirtualGOD Michael Blade takes you on a tour of Viradu. "I can also fly . . . hah . . . being the VirtualGOD that I am." Quote -Michael Blade, 2012.

Understand I do not claim to have miraculous powers outside of my virtual world Viradu . . . I just said that kind of spontaneously, in the adhoc video, my world is very imperfect as you can see.

Everything in the world is copyright "Fair Use", since it is a "sci-fi themed world" and there is no intent to imply religious belief or question, or challenge any belief system what so ever. SO just let that one be.

I did up a nice hires graphic for the next short science fiction post coming in early 2012 titled "The Time Machine That Wasn't".

The premise will be that time machines aren't impossible, but already exist in nature. Sounds crazy I know. However, maybe not any more so than thinking the end of the world is coming, which it isn't -rest assured.

Stay tuned to this blog... the story will begin appearing right below here! Until then check out "Sneeze!" below and Happy New Year. P.S. You can subscribe to this blog by clicking on the subscription icon on the right.

My Very Best Regards,
Michael Blade The Science Fiction Blogger with more than 1.2 Million Hits of World Wide Readership.
I'm getting a little sore . . . !

Extreme Futurist Fest from H+ Worldwide on Vimeo

Source: LA Weekly

???????Does this make sense?????????? =>By 2050 the world’s population will reach 9.1 billion, 34 percent higher than today. Nearly all of this population increase will occur in developing countries. Urbanization will continue at an accelerated pace, and about 70 percent of the world’s population will be urban (compared to 49 percent today). Income levels will be many multiples of what they are now. In order to feed this larger, more urban and richer population, food production (net of food used for biofuels) must increase by 70 percent. Annual cereal production will need to rise to about 3 billion tonnes from 2.1 billion today and annual meat production will need to rise by over 200 million tonnes to reach 470 million tonnes.

This is a brilliant video, I included it for the questions it poses: however there is this possibility that we are all high-order beings existing outside this deterministic reality in a infinity multitude of parallel realities in which it is possible to think freely across them. As a result you may become insane or at least confused because of the inconsistent histories! You might even experience lapses in continuity until things equalize or backward propygate. Certainly one possibility, though unprovable unless you have personally experienced it and retain memory of the transistional jump. I notice word spellings keep changing ;-). Thank god for spell checkers, but sometimes I don't care . . .

Science Summary for 2011

Story by Michael Blade, © Copyright Dec. 2011, All rights reserved. No duplication without express permission. Networked Blogs

It was cold that New York City morning and he could see his warm breath on the air as he walked the crowded sidewalk. Lots of people passing by, forward, and back on his way to the pawn shop. He couldn't help but notice the beautiful long haired blond while she was waiting at the crosswalk to the right of him.

She was holding a rather large and thin attache case, an expensive designer brand, and wearing a long fur lined red coat and sensible boots. She kept looking back, behind her. Her glances wary, as if she expected someone was actually following her. Then she seemed to relax and noticed him looking at her out of the corner of her eye. She turned slightly and smiled. Then the crosswalk turned walk, a mass of people began crossing along with them.

They walked along side of each other for a while, both noticing each others presence, but neither making obvious acknowledgment of it. He noticed she was slightly taller than him, if you counted the heel height of her boots.

He thought maybe he should say something, but what? His shy upbringing having ill prepared him for a social encounter outside the cultural Indian norms. Then before he could figure out his move, she was gone in a yellow red coat blur. She went sharply left across his path up to some technical-legal corporate building structure.

He stopped and watched her go, with a sense of immediate loss as someone nearly ran into him from behind. He thought to himself, he should have made his move. Then a miracle happened, just before she entered the building entrance she stopped, slowly turned back to look at him, smiling again.

She just stood there looking at him for a silent moment. Inside her mind she thought . . . seven hundred threads of query ran in the cloud and came back with the answer yes! He recently has purchased a ticket to India. She liked him, he was handsome, smart and kind, she needed a working vacation. Took the empty seat next to his.

Something in his nature said, go, go talk to her you idiot! To his own amazement, he did. She moved aside slightly to let others go in and out of the buildings entrance, but she clearly was waiting for him to come to her. No problem. As he got closer to her, he became more nervous, if that was even possible. This woman is way out of your league, don't blow it, he advised himself mentally.

When he got to her, she surprisingly pulled off a glove, offering her milky white hand and said, “My name is Kay Noble”. “Hi, I'm Rajeev Patel.” “Its an honor to meet you Rajeev.” He was surprised and confused by her response. “Thank You Kay,” He smiled a little too happy-goofy. “Well, I've got some business here,” she said. “But maybe we could meet for lunch, say in Chinatown later?”

She was still holding his dark caramel hand in hers. He was in mental shock from her bold forwardness, trying to collect his response when suddenly she sneezed directly on him without covering. He was completely sprayed by her sneeze. “Oh, I'm so sorry! How embarrassing, please be sure to wash your hands,” she apologized. But somehow strangely it seem almost that she had intended to do it.

Either way, still trying to act cool about it, he said. “No problem, I'll wash them before lunch, let's say the Jade Lantern? At 12:30?”

After a short pause she said. “Yeah, I know that place,” “It's a date then, menu is affordable and I'll be buying.” “No, I'll buy.” He tried to insist. “Don't worry about it, I sneezed all over you, its the least I can do. Maybe you can buy me dinner another time, I've really got to run to my meeting, I'll see you there.” Smiling and with no further interaction she turn and went straight into the entrance.

Rajeev stood there a little dazed. Beautiful woman asks him out on a lunch date and sneezes on him, apologizes and then runs off. Looking forward to lunch, if she showed up, having no idea he was infected, rather than infatuated; with something that would change his life for the better; literally allowing him to live forever, if he so chose. He began walking again in the direction of the pawn shop business he owned, in less upscale blocks nearby, but not too far from the Jade Lantern!

Kay sat in a room walled by display screens at a real mahogany wood desk across from a man who was a scientist engineer and a patent lawyer. On the screen where electron microscope images of a virus, enlarged brain neurons, scores of DNA sequences, cell tower and cell phone chip electronics, on the table itself detailed schematics and hardcopy printouts of Scala Java software code. On a small velvet pad, sat a piece of silver jewelry with a strikingly peculiar stone and emblem.

The engineer spoke, “Dr. Nobel, What you have shown me, what I see here before me, I considered to be nothing less than revolutionary technology. This leaves smartphones in the dust, like talking through a couple of cans on a string.

No one, and I mean no one, has every combined so many different modern fields of science, technology and communication infrastructure into a coherent functioning whole, drawing upon so many different complex disciplines. If I didn't know better, because this solution uses existing technology we have today in a new and radical way, I might even go so far as to say it was alien influenced.

Please take no offense, but its not possible that you yourself could have come up with this suite of patents alone. Even given your impressive background and credentials. This rightly should have taken several engineering and scientific teams decades of work and testing to complete and perfect.

"But more importantly,” he picked up the ring from the velvet, moving it now close to his face to study the emblem. “Does it actually work?” He tried it on, it fit perfectly on his left pinky. Not a finger he would have chosen.

“Mr. Anderson, no offense is taken. I assure you the prototype works and this was a collaborative effort by some of the most brilliant minds in their respective fields, including my own, and we, the group who trusts me to represent them, still wants these patents filed. After all, that is why I am here today sir.” Kay spoke directly and to the point. To conclude that this solution is alien technology is, well, what can I say? Just laughable . . .

Maybe that was the point? . . . the scientist-engineer-patent lawyer thought to himself. "The impact of this technology alone, not to even consider subsequent technology spin-offs, would profoundly impact our modern age and the very nature of humanity itself. To have controlling interest in such patents would make you, possibly within only a few years, the most powerful woman on the planet,” he stated as a matter of fact.

“I know. We have researched you well Mr. Anderson. Will you help us?” she asked.

“The fees will be large to protect such valuable patents, and it will take an army of lawyers . . . I'll expect one of the devices for myself,” he replied.

“Agreed, money is of really no concern now,” was her reply. Then she sneezed across the table at him. “Take the ring. It is yours, “ she said.

“How long does the virus take to integrate?” the engineer asked.

“A few days Mr. Anderson. Don't worry, it's a positive virus, I'm origin zero. Then you'll be one of us, welcome to the new global hivemind, we-I always choose well. It will be unlike anything you have ever experienced or imagined. Expect a mental call, anything will be possible, said Kay, a future echo ...” Kay Noble replied, then collected the documents, velvet and all, and left the room without a further word.

Rajeev made it to the pawnshop opening the lock and then push up metal doors to the shop, the front shop door, the lights, setup the cash register and greeted the first customer looking for a used guitar for his kid. The rest of the morning was uneventful and there in the back of his mind all along was his lunch date.

He then thought he knew nothing of this woman, sure she was beautiful and forward, but what else did he know about her? She could be a lawyer, fashion model, law enforcement, secret agent, serial killer, anyone at all. Google and Facebook Kay Noble, New York, picture, age say 35-42. Maybe he would find something. To his surprise she had a Wikipedia entry, she was big time, which only made him more nervous about lunch.

Behind him on the wall, his only selfless act and claim to fame, hung the symbolic key to the city award by the mayor himself. He had saved several persons from a burning building years earlier and still had the scars on his chest because of it. He had nearly died that day, having suffered months in a burn ward and it had been in all the papers, Internet and on the news. Then he thought, what could she see in him?

Then he thought, she would be the perfect lover for him and drifted off into a long day dream before lunch . . .

Peace and Love to ALL

Please note the author MBlade was just having a little fun: In the science fiction short story above Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Java (Oracle), Scala are respectable trade names and trade marks for their corresponding corporations and in no way constitute component parts of alien technology, or for that matter, technological telepathy as implied. Please just sneeze and let it go . . . consider it a holiday gift to humanity. MATERIAL REFERENCE, Future probability high: carbon nanotube transceiver and Internet Influences the Fabric of Society and Inventing Science Fiction

The year of 2011 is coming to a close and a very important year it was . . . Oh, and you can call Global Warming Climate Change, but it means the same thing. So instead of doing my usual Sci-fi video mashup, it's more important to end on a serious note this year.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pl7sWtUu1Fc

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkS07TuW-Iw&feature=related

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAbATJCugs

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b98JmQ0Cc3k

5. http://www.youtube.com/user/EFForg?blend=7&ob=5

6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T17XQI_AYNo

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQPz8KlYGjo

9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okETAydxYWw&feature=relmfu

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3p2VLTowAA

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blSRZG94jt8&feature=relmfu

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzMN2c24Y1s&feature=related

Kepler-22b is located 600 light-years away. While the planet is larger than Earth, its orbit of 290 days around a sun-like star resembles that of our world. The planet's host star belongs to the same class as our sun, called G-type, although it is slightly smaller and cooler.

The Galactic Culture: Wild ideas about our place in the universe.

I believe, that is strongly believe that the present wiki definition is correct as possible and I intend to preserve it here before it gets modified too much again, possible in negative ways. So this is the definition of Transhuman and movement of the moment of this posting Dec. 2011. "Fair use" because this website has been in existence for some time now and taken directly from Wikipedia without modification and noted as such. I'm not affiliated in any way wikipedia or any individual or organization mentioned in the definition below. The living definition can be found here. I would have loved to have meet FM-2030 and I still might. Vitrification.

Transhumanism, often abbreviated as H+ or h+, is an international intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.[1] Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as study the ethical matters involved in developing and using such technologies.[1] They predict that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label "posthuman".[1] Transhumanism is therefore viewed as a subset of philosophical "posthumanism".[2]
The contemporary meaning of the term "transhumanism" was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, FM-2030, who taught "new concepts of the Human" at The New School of New York City in the 1960s, when he began to identify people who adopt technologies, lifestyles and world views transitional to "posthumanity" as "transhuman".[3] This hypothesis would lay the intellectual groundwork for British philosopher Max More to begin articulating the principles of transhumanism as a futurist philosophy in 1990, and organizing in California an intelligentsia that has since grown into the worldwide transhumanist movement.[3][4]
Influenced by many seminal works of science fiction, the transhumanist vision of a transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters and detractors from a wide range of perspectives.[3] Transhumanism has been condemned by one critic, Francis Fukuyama, as the world's most dangerous idea,[5] while one proponent, Ronald Bailey, counters that it is the "movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative, and idealistic aspirations of humanity".[6]

============ Same goes for the living definition of Technological Singularity

Technological singularity refers to the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than-human intelligence through technological means, very likely resulting in explosive superintelligence[1]. Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as an intellectual event horizon, beyond which the future becomes difficult to understand or predict. Proponents of the singularity typically state an "intelligence explosion"[2][3] is a key factor of the Singularity where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds.
The term was coined by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, who argues that artificial intelligence, human biological enhancement or brain-computer interfaces could be possible causes of the singularity. The concept is popularized by futurists like Ray Kurzweil and it is expected by proponents to occur sometime in the 21st century, although estimates do vary.