How soon before mass-produced 3D printed leather?
Things have been very hush-hush over at Modern Meadow since it was disclosed in August that the company had received funding from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel’s foundation to 3-D bioprint meat and leather. But in an exclusive interview with Txchnologist, company cofounder and CEO Andras Forgacs has broken the silence and revealed some details about…
Should we build a supercomputer on the moon?
NASA currently controls its deep space missions through a network of huge satellite dishes in California, Spain and Australia known as the Deep Space Network (DSN). Even the Voyager 1 probe relies on these channels to beam data back to Earth as it careers away into space. But traffic on the network is growing fast,…
9 Global Disasters That Never Came to Pass
It’s easy to get caught up in apocalyptic paranoia. After all, it’s 2012, the economy is fucked, the oceans are rising, and all our coolest fictional heroes are post-apocalyptic one way or another. But let’s just take a moment to remember all the calamities that didn’t happen. Over the past few decades, people have predicted…
What will happen to humanity after we upload our brains?
Some futurists and science fiction writers predict that centuries from now, humans will be able to upload their minds into computers. These “uploads” could exist in a virtual reality world created by software, or be downloaded back into other bodies — biological or robotic. But what will we do after we’ve become uploads? That’s a…
