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Our Extropian Future, with Natasha Vita-More

Our extropian future: natasha vita-more on AI, nanotechnology, mind uploading, and the birth of transhumanism.

What happened to the future we dreamed about on the Extropian mailing list 30 years ago? Did we get the timelines wrong, or was the architecture of our thinking correct? In this compelling follow-up to the conversation with Max More, Giulio Prisco sits down with Natasha Vita-More—futurist, designer, and co-founder of the Extropian movement—to assess the state of \.

Stanford’s new chip boosts light 100x with surprisingly low energy

Researchers at Stanford have developed a compact optical amplifier that dramatically boosts light signals using very little power. By recycling energy inside a looping resonator, the device achieves strong amplification with minimal noise and wide bandwidth. Its efficiency and small size mean it could run on batteries and be integrated into consumer electronics. This breakthrough could enable faster communications and more powerful optical technologies.

This Telescope Spent Five Years Mapping the Cosmos and Captured 47 Million Galaxies in the Process

For five years, scientists quietly scanned the night sky with an instrument capable of capturing objects billions of light-years away. What they uncovered is now being described as the most ambitious cosmic map ever created.

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