Development of human-animal communication

Ongoing efforts to analyse, replicate and translate the way other species communicate might, in the future, achieve a breakthrough which would allow us to communicate on a far deeper level with animal species, and vice versa. I...

New viruses kill several thousands in European cities

New viruses similar to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the Swine influenza virus (SIV) and other animal diseases continue to kill people in Europe. However, due to poor infrastructure and insufficient responses, t...

Transhumanism becomes a significant force

The wild factor here is that commonplace assumptions about boundaries that have been drawn between humans and technology are substantially undermined. This means a process of redefining human identity, i.e. what makes us disti...

Nano-electrodes as weapons

Nano-electrodes are shaped as needles which can be coated with various materials/poisons as anti-human weapons

The coming of "technological singularity"

The “technological singularity” is a concept advocated by Ray Kurzweil and other futurists (it was first introduced by the mathematician and Science Fiction writer Vernor Vinge). The basic idea is that due to the exponentia...