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	<title>Thrivenotes &#187; extropy</title>
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	<description>On Extropy, the Technium, and Keeping One&#039;s Feet on Solid Ground.</description>
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		<title>Extropy +20: Waste-Powered Robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Scientific American &#8212; Check this out! Robots that can digest biological matter, and even human waste. Great potential on long space missions. It&#8217;s a seemingly overlooked area of energy extraction for machines in general. Remember how The Matrix machines used solar energy, then switched to biological/heat energy from humans once we blotted out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +19: Canadian Polymer Bank Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even in this Apple-esque, highly-dramatic presentation of Canada&#8217;s new anti-counterfeiting technology can we see the unfolding of the evolution of technology, what I like to call extropy: It is seen in the accumulation of techniques and tools used to create novel products and services, to build something new and improved. Even in these plastic bills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +18: Solar 3D Printer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Extropy +17: New Retinas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>So Vital to Unplug&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just-found quote points at the reason why we must be careful, why even this blogger must be careful, to live the life and experience the world (wu-wei) and to just sample (and sometimes observe) the advance of technology (extropy) &#8212; for what technology (name one!) can more easily improve our lives than our own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robotic Swiss Quadrocopters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Extropy +16: Space (Research) Tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Space Tourism for Scientists The New York Times ran an article yesterday on space tourism for scientists and scientific purposes: &#8220;If all goes as planned, within a couple of years, tourists will be rocketing into space aboard a Virgin Galactic space plane — paying $200,000 for about four minutes of weightlessness — before coming back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FB mobile TR</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dışarı mı çıkıyorsun? Bağlı kal. Cep telefonundan facebook.com&#8217;u ziyaret et. [ Facebook Mobil Kullan ] Going out (are you)? Stay connected. Visit facebook.com on your mobile phone. [ Use Facebook Mobile ]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +15: Ornithopter</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-15-ornithopter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working prototype developed for DARPA (by AeroVironment Inc.) of a nano-hummingbird or ornithopter, useful for low-risk, long distance surveillance. Source: Physorg.com &#8211; Ornithopter SEE ALSO: Ornithopter, the Magic: The Gathering Card&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +14: Google Lunar X-Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/about-the-prize]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +13: Toasters</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-13-toasters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just love the inverse demonstration of extropy that we see here in this video. The world is so full of embedded systems and technologies within technologies. It is so difficult for one man to make and refine iron, steel, plastic, etc., yet these processes are fully matured, widespread and, in their own way, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geriatrics, Gerontology, &amp; Maintenance</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/geriatrics-gerontology-maintenance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Important Points Geriatrics works on treating pathology &#8211; cancer, Alzheimer&#8217;s, heart disease &#8211; but much too late in the game to extend lifespan. Gerontology attempts to prevent aging by adjusting a very complex system, the metabolism (see picture below). This can have many unwanted side effects. Thus, progress in this field is very difficult. Maintenance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strong, Sustainable, &amp; FAST.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Level 9 Earthquake Resistance: Diagonal bracing structure, with light-weight, steel construction. Sustainable Building Materials: Thin, light-weight materials, 6x less material than an average building, but with airtight, sound-proof floors and walls. Energy Efficient: Modern insulation, triple-glazed windows, LED lighting, external solar shading, etc. Clean Indoor Air: The air inside is triple-filtered and reported to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +12: Khan Academy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free, world-class education for all. Infrastructure required: PC, internet, youtube, speaker/headphones. Cost of attendance: 0. Increase in extropy (knowledge-density): Most likely immeasurable. TRY IT! &#8211; www.khanacademy.org]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +11: When Civilizations Meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, July 26, 2010 (FROM THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG &#8211;&#62; here.) The Fermi Paradox, Phase Changes and Intergalactic Colonisation A new model shows how the spread of ET civilisations can undergo phase changes, providing deeper insights into the Fermi Paradox In 1950, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi raised the question that now bears his name. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +10: The Principles</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropyplusten-a-transhumanist-declaration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words of Max More are too well composed, too precise to emulate, so I have decided to provide a simple introduction and then let the rest speak for itself. The original, The Extropian Principles 3.o, is also to be found here on Max More&#8217;s own site. Introduction The term &#8216;transhumanist&#8217; comes with significant baggage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA-based biocomputers</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-and-dna-based-bio-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was amazed to hear of the newly possible DNA-based logic gates presented in this article at PopSci (world&#8217;s first DNA based logic gates could lead to injectable bio-computers). My mind is abuzz with extropic potential. Here&#8217;s my short version&#8230; Summary: Researchers at Hebrew University recently produced a set of self-maintaining XOR logic gates built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s help germinate this seed</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/lets-help-germinate-this-seed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 19:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An epic story about meeting god on a train. Written by Harry Stottle @ fullmoon.nu Talking to God I met god the other day. I know what you’re thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? Well, I’ll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +8: Room to Expand</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Part and parcel of the what leads many to an Extropian mindset is the realization of scale, both in space and time. We’re allotted seventy to a hundred years of life compared to a fantastically large number of years that the Universe has been in existence. We live on a tiny little planet in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +7: Game Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Most complicated negotiations are predictable.&#8221; Bruce Bueno de Mesquito, CIA &#38; DOD Consultant/Game Theorist ~ Analog to Asimov&#8217;s Psychohistory realized in Game Theory-Based Computer Simulations with 90% success rate in predicting future political outcomes. This to me represents the pinnacle (or a pinnacle) of the outsourcing of information processing in order to supplement human intelligence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +6: Creative Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How understanding our own minds and the ways that we solve problems will allow us to invent creative machines&#8230; ScienceDaily (2010-12-02) &#8212; A mathematical model based on psychology theory allows computers to mimic human creative problem-solving, and provides a new roadmap to architects of artificial intelligence. Explicit-Implicit Interaction theory is the most recent advance on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 9%</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Am I part of the cure, or am I part of the disease?&#8221; Don&#8217;t Fear the Singularity By Ran Prieur, 2005 &#8220;The Singularity&#8221; is the biggest idea in techno-utopianism. The word is derived from black hole science &#8212; it&#8217;s the point at the core where matter has contracted to zero volume and infinite density, beyond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +5: Stem Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magnets Guide Stem Cells towards Damaged Heart Stem cells have great potential in medicine as they can be coaxed into becoming any type of cell. But for all their dynamism, researchers have had a tough time getting them to stay put. At Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, where a team lead by Dr. Eduardo Marbán first isolated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus Three)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Nick Lepard, November 2008 (website) &#8220;In my most recent work I explore notions of singularity, concepts of time and patterns of change. Today, modernity requires that each of us navigate a blizzard of information. How this maelstrom of data is interpreted and synthesized constructs an individual’s paradigm. However, the qualities of the data are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +4: Simulating Robot Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.&#8221; — Freeman Dyson]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The more things change, the more they stay the same.&#8221; FUTURE-WISE As we saw in Minus One, the future can be a very shocking proposition when it is extrapolated far out enough. But we all have to deal with the day-to-day just like anyone else. This, I believe, is why stuff like the iPad and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too much info and too many wild concepts to consider. Let&#8217;s put it this way &#8212; To be able to hold this all in one&#8217;s mind without panic, or blind faith, or manic passion, to be able recognize the likelihood and probability of these progressively stranger concepts without a significant rise in blood-pressure; that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nerd Nihilism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t just go around bashing the Singularity like that!&#8221; &#8220;Well, why not? Isn&#8217;t it due the same scrutiny as any other statistical or theoretical extrapolation?&#8221; &#8220;No. Just no.&#8221; &#8220;Why is that?&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t you understand?! &#8212; the Singularity is a sacred tenant of Nerd-dom, beating out even force-fields and light-sabers in conceptual God-status!&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +3: Growing Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is resistant to entropy. Survival of the species is genetic. And selfish self-preservation is the rule. Carried out over generations, species preserve themselves. And out of humans new forms of life are springing: tools and artificial intelligence that may choose to preserve themselves at some point and push outward into the universe, saturating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Laws of Robotics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With increasingly subtle moves, the players in Asimov&#8217;s epic Foundation and Earth are confronted with the daunting decision of whether to initiate an all-encompassing ethical framework, one which just might direct humanity into an acceptable future. The agents of change go unnamed for those who have yet to read it. Dr. Isaac Asimov, in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +2: Extropian Forefathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mind, through the long course of biological evolution, has established itself as a moving force in our little corner of the universe. Here on this small planet, mind has infiltrated matter and has taken control. It appears to me that the tendency of mind to infiltrate and control matter is a law of nature. — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +1: Intelligence Pops</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extropy is a term used to describe the vitality of a system. What we mean by a system being vital, lively, robust, or dynamic is that it resists entropy, the tendency for everything to fall apart and decompose, yes, even protons and neutrons crumble and break apart. For a system to resist this, you may [...]]]></description>
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