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		<title>Great Books for Far Out Futures</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2013/04/great-books-for-far-out-futures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2013/04/great-books-for-far-out-futures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of my favorites in the &#8220;not so distant&#8221; and still &#8220;far out&#8221; genre of science fiction literature: Ready Player One VR-storyline with immensive amounts of references to the best of eighties geek culture.  A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? &#160; The Rapture of the Nerds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2012/05/2052-global-forecast-forty-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2012/05/2052-global-forecast-forty-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new book &#8220;2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years&#8221; by Jorgen Randers raises the possibility that humankind might not survive on the planet if it continues on its path of over-consumption and short-termism.  In the report author Jorgen Randers raises essential questions: How many people will the planet be able to support? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5GW and Norwegian Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/09/5gw-norwegian-terrorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The atrocities committed against innocent civilians in the recent terrorist attacks in Norway shows how much harm and disruption one person can do against an unprepared society. Is the attack a precursor for a general transformation and individualization of terrorism? According to the evolution of military theory advanced surveillance, intelligence and sophisticated weaponry is useless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OECD: Future Global Shock &#8211;  Improving Risk Governance</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/07/oecd-future-global-shock-improving-risk-governance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/07/oecd-future-global-shock-improving-risk-governance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this project, public and private experts explore how to increase resilience to Future Global Shocks. The Project will generate options for governments to enhance capacity to identify, anticipate, control, contain and/or mitigate large disasters. The project recognises that shocks can provide opportunities for progress, not just negative consequences. Amongst the inputs from which the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Storm and Black Swan Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/04/the-perfect-storm-and-black-swan-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/04/the-perfect-storm-and-black-swan-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BP oil crisis in the Mexican gulf, deadly heat waves in Russia, earthquakes in Haiti (7.0 Mw) and Chile (8.8 Mw) and flooding in Australia caused almost 300.000 deaths from natural disasters in 2010 (1). A few months into 2011 New Zealand is hit by a 6.3 Mw earthquake followed by the Japan 9.0 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanoparticles Could Be Planted Under Our Skin for Glucose Monitoring</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/02/nanoparticles-could-be-planted-under-our-skin-for-glucose-monitoring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/02/nanoparticles-could-be-planted-under-our-skin-for-glucose-monitoring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In collaborative work between researchers at MIT and Northeastern University in Boston, MA a comparatively long and hollow nanoparticle has been developed that could be implanted under the skin and remain anchored at its original location to monitor levels of glucose or salt or other targets over time. Source: IEEE Spectrum.]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/01/reducing-systemic-cybersecurity-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/01/reducing-systemic-cybersecurity-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The report &#8220;Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk&#8220; is part of OECD&#8217;s &#8220;Future Global Shocks&#8221; series, in which thinkers from various disciplines assess whether events in their fields might become as damaging to the world as the recent financial crisis or a global pandemic. Single online events, such as a major DDoS attack, are unlikely to have such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why you already live in a cyberpunk future</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/01/why-you-already-live-in-a-cyberpunk-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2011/01/why-you-already-live-in-a-cyberpunk-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our perception of a cyberpunk future is shaped by the foresight of luminaries like William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Bruce Sterling. Their vivid scenarios of ubiquitous computers, high tech weaponry, corporate tyranny and social disintegration have never been closer to reality than in the world of 2011. Here’s a few facts that will make you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM offers glimpse into the future</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/12/ibm-offers-glimpse-into-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/12/ibm-offers-glimpse-into-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air-powered batteries, 3-D cellphones that project holographs and personalized commutes are among the predictions of IBM scientists gazing into their crystal balls. Source: Physorg.]]></description>
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		<title>How US strategic antimissile defense could be made to work</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/11/how-us-strategic-antimissile-defense-could-be-made-to-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/11/how-us-strategic-antimissile-defense-could-be-made-to-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The authors show that the United States has the ability to defend itself from long-range nuclear armed ballistic missiles if it builds the right systems defenses based on stealthy drones that could shoot down ballistic missiles in powered flight after they have been launched from fixed known sites.This same system could defend Northern and Western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Space Security 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/10/report-space-security-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/10/report-space-security-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rate at which new states gain access to space increased dramatically in the past decade. By the end of 2009 a total of 50 states had placed satellites in space &#8230; This number is expected to continue to grow as more states seek the socio-economic benefits that space provides through the efforts of the commercial sector and countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuxnet worm heralds new era of global cyberwar</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/10/stuxnet-worm-heralds-new-era-of-global-cyberwar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/10/stuxnet-worm-heralds-new-era-of-global-cyberwar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That attack took place in 2008 and was acknowledged by the Pentagon only this August. It was strikingly similar to the recently disclosed cyber attack on Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities using the Stuxnet worm, which also appears to have used contaminated hardware in an attempt to cripple Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme. Like the attack on Centcom&#8217;s computers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raytheon unveils second generation exoskeleton – Sarcos XOS 2</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/09/raytheon-unveils-second-generation-exoskeleton/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/09/raytheon-unveils-second-generation-exoskeleton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The suit is built from a combination of structures, sensors, actuators and controllers, and it is powered by high pressure hydraulics. It enables its wearer to easily lift 200 pounds several hundred times without tiring and repeatedly punch through three inches of wood. Yet, the suit, which was developed for the U.S. Army, is also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Kind Of Top-Secret Assassination Tech Does $58 Billion Buy?</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/09/what-kind-of-top-secret-assassination-tech-does-58-billion-buy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/09/what-kind-of-top-secret-assassination-tech-does-58-billion-buy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, tens of billions of Pentagon dollars go missing. The money vanishes not because of fraud, waste or abuse, but because U.S. military planners have appropriated it to secretly develop advanced weapons and fund clandestine operations. Next year, this so-called black budget will be even larger than it was in the Cold War days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic biology: Harbinger of an uncertain future?</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/09/synthetic-biology-harbinger-of-an-uncertain-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/09/synthetic-biology-harbinger-of-an-uncertain-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, a split in the industry appeared when two of the leading firms &#8212; DNA2.0 in the U.S. and Geneart in Germany &#8212; proposed to minimize the second phase of security screening, i.e. using a human expert, and to rely almost entirely on the first phase of screening, i.e. using only computers. Because a mainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debating Space Deterrence</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/08/debating-space-deterrence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite [KE ASAT] Lessons from the Schriever X space wargame, which took place at Nellis AFB in May, are driving some hard thinking among deterrence strategists. In the second US Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium in Omaha this week, panel speakers explored what turns out to be a nightmarishly complex issue. One big lesson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Loneliest Humanoid in America</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/07/the-loneliest-humanoid-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/07/the-loneliest-humanoid-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the tasks you would undoubtedly love to hand off to a robot assistant, fetching a soccer ball is probably low on the list. And yet in 2010, there is no humanoid robot on Earth that can consistently do something as simple as turn, spot, approach, and kick. Never mind helping Grandma to bed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks: War Diary of Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/07/wikileaks-war-diary-of-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/07/wikileaks-war-diary-of-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Ellsberg, a former US military analyst, has described the disclosure of the Afghan war logs as on the scale of his leaking of the &#8220;Pentagon Papers&#8221; in 1971 revealing how the US public was misled about the Vietnam war. &#8220;An outrageous escalation of the war is taking place,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Look at these cables [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Efficient nano motor cleverly harnesses light</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/07/efficient-nano-motor-cleverly-harnesses-light/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/07/efficient-nano-motor-cleverly-harnesses-light/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Labs and the University of California have made a new nanoscale motor that can drive a disc 4000 times bigger (by volume) than itself. It is powered via the so-called &#8220;plasmonic effect&#8221; and could be used to manipulate ultra-small objects like DNA and for powering nanoelectromechanical machines (NEMS). At merely 100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aerospace Future: Hypersonic Weapons and Spaceships</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/06/aerospace-future-hypersonic-weapons-and-spaceships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/06/aerospace-future-hypersonic-weapons-and-spaceships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[space]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The wealth of possibilities offered by aerospace vehicles that can ride their own shockwaves likely explains why the project has drawn support from the Pentagon&#8217;s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), NASA, and the U.S. Navy. &#8220;We could have in the future such things as hypersonic weapons that fly 600 nautical miles in 10 minutes,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invisibility cloaks and how to use them</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/06/invisibility-cloaks-and-how-to-use-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/06/invisibility-cloaks-and-how-to-use-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[nanotech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invisibility]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;invisibility cloaks&#8221; being made in labs today can hide objects when viewed from a wide range of directions and in visible light – both considered implausible developments when the first working invisibility cloak was demonstrated just four years ago. But the technology that makes objects vanish looks set to be more useful for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market overview: adult stem cell therapies</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/market-overview-adult-stem-cell-therapies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/market-overview-adult-stem-cell-therapies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 19:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biotech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stem cells]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even as regulatory agencies express abundant caution, adult stem cell therapies are moving steadily toward the clinic and through development for multiple applications. Investors have become more sophisticated about distinguishing between adult stem cell therapies and embryonic stem cell therapies as well as the potential risks, complications, and costs involved in each. Source: Genetic Engineering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fair and Responsible Use of Space</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/the-fair-and-responsible-use-of-space/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/the-fair-and-responsible-use-of-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 18:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As space applications become central to modern interaction, more and more entities are becoming involved in space activities. Consequently, strategies to establish the coordinated, ethically justifiable and sustainable conduct of space activities have to be found. Such an endeavour requires addressing current questions regarding the use of space, dealing with fair rules in orbit and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic biology breakthrough: first living artificial cell created</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/synthetic-biology-breakthrough-first-living-artificial-cell-created/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/synthetic-biology-breakthrough-first-living-artificial-cell-created/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 08:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biotech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synthetic biology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell. &#8230; The advance, published in Science, has been hailed as a scientific landmark, but critics (&#8220;Synthia is Alive and Breeding: Panacea or Pandora&#8217;s Box?&#8221; from the ETC Group) say there are dangers posed by synthetic organisms. The researchers hope eventually to design bacterial cells that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building organs block by block</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/building-organs-block-by-block/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/building-organs-block-by-block/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 09:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biotech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tissue engineering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=515</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tissue engineering has long held promise for building new organs to replace damaged livers, blood vessels and other body parts. However, one major obstacle is getting cells grown in a lab dish to form 3-D shapes instead of flat layers. Researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have come up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Men Who Stare in Peace: An Interview with Dr. David Leffler</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/the-men-who-stare-in-peace-an-interview-with-dr-david-leffler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/the-men-who-stare-in-peace-an-interview-with-dr-david-leffler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, military interest in psychic research is portrayed as an utter failure. The movie is not meant to be science journalism but pure entertainment. However, buried beneath the satirical and banal surface of this movie lie many interesting scientific theories. A proposed theory of a collective consciousness is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conspiracy theories and Transhumanism</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/conspiracy-theories-and-transhumanism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/05/conspiracy-theories-and-transhumanism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[future studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eugenics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transhumanism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The conspiracy theory crowd is looking at the transhumanist movement for evidence of a planned eugenic robotic utopia for the elite. Unfortunately this means a robotic hell for you. I actually enjoy sites like &#8220;The Labyrinth of the Psychonaut&#8221; and &#8220;Red Ice Creations&#8221; &#8211; not for it&#8217;s quality of content but as pure entertainment. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humanoid Robot Mahru Mimics a Person&#8217;s Movements in Real Time</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/04/humanoid-robot-mahru-mimics-a-persons-movements-in-real-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/04/humanoid-robot-mahru-mimics-a-persons-movements-in-real-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An operator wearing a sensor suit can control this robot&#8217;s arm and leg movements. Mahru, an advanced biped humanoid developed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Samsung Electronics, has a bunch of skills. Mahru knows its way around a kitchen, popping a snack into the microwave and bringing it to you, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyborgs in Space</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/04/cyborgs-in-space/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/04/cyborgs-in-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biotech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nanotech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyborgs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transhumanism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1960, Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline published an essay in Astronautics titled “Cyborgs in Space.” Comparing man in space to a fish out of water, they noted that even if you could bring everything you need on your space explorations, “the bubble all too easily bursts.” However, if the human body were altered to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Page: Ultra Thin, Foldable E-Reader Concept</title>
		<link>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/04/the-page-ultra-thin-foldable-e-reader-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://www.plausiblefutures.com/2010/04/the-page-ultra-thin-foldable-e-reader-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ereaders]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.plausiblefutures.com/?p=492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jae Kim has created a next generation e-reader concept called The Page that is as thin as a sheet of paper, can fold up and has an e-ink screen that can display text and images. E-readers may be all the rage now with their storage capacities and high-tech wizardry, but they lack a special something [...]]]></description>
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