Showing posts with label High Advance Technology. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

High Advance Technology II

 

6. Nanotechnology:

This track will cover the science, technology and potential future capabilities of nanotechnology, including:
(1) Fundamental scaling laws and their limits. 
(2) The nature of atomically precise structures and computational chemistry. 
(3) Current and proposed manufacturing technologies including: lithography, self assembly, DNA nanotechnology, positional assembly, Scanning Probe Microscopy, mechanosynthesis, molecular positional devices, self replicating systems, molecular nanotechnology (MNT) and nanofactories. 
(4) Molecular computing, molecular logic elements, carbon nanotube electronics and thermal limits in computing. 
(5) Medical nanorobotics and nanomedicine, life extension and cryonics. 
(6) the impact of nanotechnology on space, energy production and storage, national security, green manufacturing, environmental remediation and other areas.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Nanotechnology)
  • Co-Chair: Robert Freitas, Jr , Sr Research Fellow, Inst for Molecular Manufacturing
  • Co-Chair: Ralph Merkle, Sr Research Fellow, Inst for Molecular Manufacturing
  • Advisor: J Storrs Hall, Pres, Foresight Inst; Author, Beyond AI & Nanofuture
  • Advisor: Neil Jacobstein, CEO, Teknowledge; Media X Prog, Stanford Univ

7. Medicine, Neuroscience & Human Enhancement:

This track will explore the future of biomedicine, neuroscience, and human enhancement and its impacts on human health and performance in six areas: 
(1) Stem cells and regenerative medicine: the emerging ability to repair, replace and regenerate damaged, aged, or diseased tissues utilizing cell therapies, therapeutic cloning, pluripotent stem cells, tissue engineering, biomaterials and artificial organs. 
(2) Targeted therapies, including minimally invasive medical devices, designer drugs, identification and targeting of cancer stem cells. 
(3) Medical diagnostics and imaging: increasingly powerful and rapid imaging modalities, point-of-care medical diagnostics, and biomarker technology.
(4) Neuroscience: neuroprosthetics (artificial retina, cochlear implants, brain-computer interfaces, deep brain stimulation), neuroplasticity, and direct fMRI functional brain imaging/scanning. 
(5) Wellness: preventative drugs, supplements/antioxidants/diet, proactive regimens, Internet-based medical informatics, and telemedicine. 
(6) Human enhancement: exoskeletons, robotic limbs, neuroenhancing pharmacological agents, gene therapy, and anti-aging strategies.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Medicine, Neuroscience & Human Enhancement)

8. AI & Robotics:

This track focuses on intelligent machines. The main topics are: 
(1) Introduction to intelligent machines: perception, actions, representation, reasoning, learning, dealing with uncertainty. 
(2) AI technology: efficient exploration of state space, planning, logical inference, probabilistic inference, representation languages, machine learning, and language understanding. Alternative approaches for producing artificial general intelligence (AGI) or strong AI. 
(3) Robotics technology: hardware systems (sensors, manipulators), mobility, localization and mapping, human-robot interactions, multi-agent systems, autonomous vehicles, scaling to micro- and nano-machines. 
(4) Applications in home, transportation, medicine, security, internet, entertainment, space, and other areas. 
(5) Future directions: technology trends, solving the hard problems. AI ethics, potential for runaway AI, friendly vs. unfriendly AI. Uncertainties concerning when computers will match various capabilities of the human brain. 
Will computers become conscious?

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (AI & Robotics)
  • Co-Chair: Neil Jacobstein, CEO, Teknowledge; Media X Prog, Stanford Univ
  • Co-Chair: Raj Reddy, Prof of Computer Science & Robotics, Carnegie Mellon Univ
  • Advisor: Ben Goertzel, Founder, Novamente; Dir of Research, Singularity Inst
  • Advisor: Jason Lohn, Senior Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Advisor: Dharmendra Modha, Manager, Cognitive Computing, IBM Almaden
  • Advisor: Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.
  • Advisor: Sebastian Thrun, Prof of Computer Science, Director AI Lab at Stanford

9. Energy & Ecological Systems:

This track will cover future breakthroughs in renewable energy production, including solar, wind, ocean, geothermal, biological, and nuclear; grid 2.0 & transmission systems; energy storage technology & systems, including fuel cells; efficient transportation systems; energy conservation & efficiency, energy for the developing world; the Earth as an environmental system, including climate models and strategies and geoengineering; and global catastrophe scenarios and existential extinction events (asteroids, biowarfare, gamma ray bursts, nuclear war, etc.) and survival, prevention, and mitigation strategies.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Energy & Ecological Systems)
  • Co-Chair: Sunil Paul, Founding Partner at Spring Ventures
  • Co-Chair: Michel Gelobter, Founder, Cooler Inc; former Pres, Redefining Progress
  • Co-Chair: Dan Whaley, Founder and CEO, Climos
  • Advisor: Dan Kammen, Co-director of the Berkeley Inst of the Environment
  • Advisor: Claire Tomkins, Project Manager: Gigaton Throwdown

10. Space & Physical Sciences:

Calling on the extensive research and instructional resources at NASA Ames, this track will explore:
(1) The future of space, including future launch and propulsion systems (lasers, space elevators, ion engines, solar sails, fusion drives); nanosatellites; orbital satellite systems for communications and Earth and remote sensing; energy sources such as Helium-3 from the lunar regolith, solar-powered satellites; asteroids and comets as sources of metals, minerals and fuel. 
(2) Cosmology (including dark matter and dark energy and fundamental structure of matter); astrobiology and the origin of life on Earth and elsewhere; SETI and communication with extraterrestrial life; computronium (converting matter to a computational resource); and spreading intelligence to the universe.
TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Space & Physical Sciences)

Team Design Project:

The Team Project for SU’s Graduate Studies Program (June 27th -Aug 29th 2009) is the centerpiece of the curriculum where students are given a challenging, interdisciplinary, and real world problem that exemplifies one of humanity’s grand challenges. 2009’s Team Project is called, 10^9+ (ten to the ninth, plus) where students will be asked how they can impact 1 Billion people, worldwide, in a positive way, in 10-years time leveraging accelerating technologies. 
At the end of the 9 week summer session, students will present their results before a panel of individuals composed of representatives from private and public industries. They will also launch a website and other deliverables to serve as a launchpad for practical solutions and continued international dialogue related to various aspects of the problem.
  • Co-Chair: Lauren Fletcher, Engineer, Astrobiology, NASA Ames Research Center
  • Co-Chair: Keith Kleiner, Associate Founder, Singularity University

Technology Advisory Board:

The purpose of Singularity University’s Technology Advisory Team is to provide the University with ideas and guidance for the support and implementation of software tools for education, outreach and social media. In essence, the team strives to keep Singularity University at the cutting-edge of computer-based information systems, particularly online social networking and media applications.

Media Advisory Board:

Singularity University Media is producing a feature documentary for theatrical and broadcast distribution, and a series of short documentaries for online distribution. We are also recording lectures and panel discussions for DVD and online release. SU Media is run by former Technology Producer and Web Strategist at Charlie Rose, Matt Rutherford.

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

High Advance Technology

 

 

1. Futures Studies & Forecasting:

Singularity University is a profoundly and uniquely futures-oriented institution. Its very purpose is to identify and use exponentially-accelerating technologies to create better conditions for everyone on Earth; to heal and nurture the planet itself; and to guide humanity as it reaches beyond the limits of Earth and of humanity’s historical evolution on Earth. It is the mission of the Futures Studies and Forecasting Track to help see that this positive futures-orientation is foremost in everything we do by presenting, discussing, critiquing, and infusing the theories and methods of futures studies throughout the curriculum and in all SU activities. Ray Kurzweil, Paul Saffo, James Canton, and Jim Dator–futurists who have had years of practical, applied, as well as academic experience in futures studies–serve as co-chairs of this track.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Futures Studies & Forecasting)
  • Co-Chair: Ray Kurzweil, Founder, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
  • Co-Chair: James Canton, CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures
  • Co-Chair: Jim Dator, Prof & Dir of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
  • Co-Chair: Paul Saffo, Visiting Scholar in the Stanford Media X research network
  • Advisor: Jerome Glenn, Director, The Millennium Project
  • Advisor: John Smart, Founder & President, Acceleration Studies Foundation
  • Advisor: Peter Bishop, Associate Professor, College of Technology, University of Houston
  • Advisor: Will Wright, Creator: SimCity, Spore; Founder, Maxis (Electronic Arts)

2. Policy, Law & Ethics:

This track will examine the role of government, law and ethics in dealing with the implications of the technologies covered in other tracks, including reinventing patent law, the patentability of concepts developed by AI, nanotechnology, and biotech/biomedical research; the future legal status of AIs, robots, cyborgs, and non-terrestrial resources and possible off-Earth civilizations; dealing with cybercrime and possible AI manipulation of financial markets; preventing risks from unfriendly AI, nanotech, and genetics; negative scenarios (surveillance, police states, etc.); the precautionary principle vs. the proactionary principle; policy and legal issues of environment crisis, and ethical issues around anticipated human manipulations, brain enhancements, AIs, self-replicating nanotech, brain uploads, cryogenics and re-animation. The track will also consider the promises in addition to the perils: what are the downside risks if we do not develop certain kinds of biotechnology, AI, or nanotech?

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Policy, Law & Ethics)

3. Finance & Entrepreneurship

The exponential growth of technology, while most visible in the fields of computing and the sciences, has had an equally dramatic effect on every facet of the business world. From the long tail reverberations of virtual goods, through the outsourcing of every aspect of creation and production, to the explosive development of personal brands and the potentially culture-changing introduction of micro-finance, the approaching Singularity is revolutionizing our global economic system. 

This track will begin in the first trimester with a rapid trip through the dramatic changes in business already caused by accelerating technologies, include an introduction to business structures and principles, provide tools and insights for monetizing the new technologies, and culminate with cross-track workshops on both the Essence of Entrepreneurship and Presentation and Communications Skills. 

During the second trimesters, topics that will be covered in collaboration with other tracks include understanding the new workforce and personal branding, private financing of space travel, the economics of knowledge, green financing through carbon ‘cap & trade’, virtual market economics, microfinance and the concept of money as information. 

A field trip to the Google campus as well as special guest lectures and hands on case studies will help Fellows come to grips with the immediate, real-world effects of high velocity business in the age of the Singularity.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Finance & Entrepreneurship)

4. Networks & Computing Systems:

Calling on the rich resources of leading-edge companies and academics in Silicon Valley, this track covers the explosive growth of computer power and networks, focusing on three key revolutionary areas:

(1) Emerging and future computational and storage technologies, including 3D molecular computing, nanocomputing, DNA/RNA computing, plasmonics, spin storage, memristors, optical storage, photonics, quantum computing, pico- and femtotechnology, and autonomic computing, addressing important issues such as reversible computing, the limits of information representation, scalable computing systems, and future petascale and exascale supercomputers;

(2) Future user interfaces, such as augmented reality, virtual reality. virtual worlds, blended reality, virtual agents, bots, lifelogging, breakthroughs in computer graphics, holographic and 3D displays, teleimmersion, telepresence, haptic interfaces, personalized learning, and extracting knowledge from massive volumes of data via data analysis, data mining, and information visualization; and

(3) Intelligent networks, including nth-generation Internet, smart search engines, the semantic Web, smart grid, shared vs. dedicated Lightpath Internet, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks, security and privacy vs. transparency, mobile and location-based computing, cloud computing, Interplanetary Internet, ubiquitous wireless networks and ubiquitous computing, mesh networks, adaptive networks, embedded networks, and the global physics grid.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Networks & Computing Systems)
  • Co-Chair: Bob Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
  • Co-Chair: Kevin Fall, Principal Engineer at Intel Research Berkeley
  • Advisor: Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc.
  • Advisor: Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager, Google Inc.
  • Advisor: Daniel Ford, Senior Mathematician, Google Inc.
  • Advisor: Larry Smarr, Dir, CA Institute for Telecommunications & Information Tech

5. Biotechnology & Bioinformatics:

This track covers the exponential growth in biotechnology and bioinformatics, focusing on four areas: 
(1) genome technologies (genomics and proteomics, ultra-rapid, low-cost gene sequencing, and statistical and computational extrapolations of large biological databases); 
(2) Personalized medicine (4P medicine: personalized, predictive, preventative, participatory; high-speed, full-genome, consumer-based sequencing; personal SNP analysis and ethics);

 (3) Intelligent design (ultra-rapid, low-cost DNA writing, selective gene manipulation/substitution, ethics of germline modification, RNA interference); and

 (4) Microfludics and single-molecule technologies.

TRACK CHAIRS & ADVISORY (Biotechnology & Bioinformatics)
  • Chair: Daniel Reda, Co-Founder, CureTogether
  • Advisor: Aubrey de Grey, Chairman & CSO, Methuselah Foundation
  • Advisor: David Haussler, Professor, Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
  • Advisor: Andrew Hessel, Founding Director, Pink Army Cooperative
  • Advisor: Stuart Kim, Professor, Developmental Biology, Stanford University

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

High Advance Technology



Singularity University is an academic institution in Silicon Valley whose stated aim is to "assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges."


Modeled on, and running contemporaneously with, the International Space University, Singularity U is not an accredited four-year university, but is instead intended to supplement traditional educational institutions. It offers an annual nine-week summer course intended for graduate and post-gradute students, one week programs for senior corporate managers, and three day versions for CEOs.

The first nine-week program began in June 2009, with full tuition costing US$25,000 (although a majority of the participants were provided full or partial scholarships). The inaugural 2009 class was limited to 40 Fellows chosen from over 1,200 applicants. One hundred and twenty graduate and postgraduate students will be accepted for the graduate course beginning summer 2010.


Peter Diamandis says academic success is most likely to be achieved when students look beyond their own niche fields and begin to collaborate, study and understand the work of others."The biggest breakthroughs always come in the boundaries between the disciplines," he says.

"The traditional university education tends to push people into narrow funnels," says co-founder Bob Richards. "What we are setting out to do is work on a much broader canvas. We want to take a multi-disciplinary approach."

Subjects

The University offers 10 different academic tracks, each chaired by one or more experts in the field:
  1. Futures Studies and Forecasting (Ray Kurzweil, James Canton, Jim Dator, Paul Saffo)
  2. Policy, Law and Ethics (Tara Lemmey, Robert Taylor)
  3. Finance and Entrepreneurship (David S. Rose)
  4. Networks and Computing Systems (Bob Metcalfe, Kevin Fall)
  5. Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (Daniel Reda)
  6. Nanotechnology (Ralph Merkle, Robert Freitas, Jr.)
  7. Medicine, Neuroscience and Human Enhancement (Daniel Kraft)
  8. AI, Robotics, and Cognitive Computing (Neil Jacobstein, Raj Reddy)
  9. Energy and Ecological Systems (Sunil Paul, Michel Gelobter, Dan Whaley)
  10. Space and Physical Sciences (Dan Barry, Chris Boshuizen)
Other faculty members and advisors include Will Wright, Tom Byers, Vint Cerf, Aubrey de Gray, Peter Norvig, Sebastian Thrun, Daniel Kammen, George Smoot, Pete Worden, and Matt Mullenweg,

Programs

The University offers three kinds of academic programs:
  • Graduate Studies Program - a nine-week summer program for 120 students running once per year (40 students the first year)
  • Executive Program (10 days) - a 40-student program running 8 times per year
  • Executive Program (3 days) - a 20-student program running 8 times per year


Organization

The University is run by Executive Director Salim Ismail, along with Chief of Staff Susan Fonseca-Klein, Program Coordinator Kenneth Hurst, Vice President for University Relations Bruce Klein, and Financial Controller Alicia Isaac. The European Lead is David Orban.

It is overseen by a Board of Trustees, including Chancellor and Trustee Ray Kurzweil, Vice-Chancellor and Chairman Peter Diamandis, Trustee Robert D. Richards, Trustee Michael Simpson, and Trustee Salim Ismail.

Corporate founding partners and sponsors include NASA, Google, IDEO, LinkedIn, ePlanet Ventures, and the X-Prize Foundation.

SU Executive Program

 

Click Here To Apply

The next SU Executive Program will take place Feb 26th – Mar 7th 2010 at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.

 
The SU Executive Program educates, informs and prepares executives to recognize the opportunities and disruptions at the intersections of industry and exponentially growing technologies.


Over-the-Horizon Radar for Executives

The SU Executive Program shows you how the intersections of convergence, exponential growth, and disruptive technologies will impact your company and industry.

Specific benefits to participants:
  • Understand underlying drivers of exponential change
  • Explore growth solutions based on disruptive innovation
  • Create strategies of value to your company
  • Gain exposure to new technologies
  • Understand impacts on your industry
  • Expand your networks
  • Connect with a lifelong community through the Singularity University Network
The 9-day SU Executive Program will be held at SU facilities at the NASA Ames Research Center. Participants will be housed at the NASA Lodge within the NASA Research Park, and meals will be catered during the program.


SU Executive Program instructors include:
  • Dan Barry, President, Denbar Robotics, former NASA astronaut
  • Peter Diamandis, Founder, X PRIZE Foundation; Vice-Chancellor and Chairman, SU
  • Neil Jacobstein, CEO, Teknowledge; Sr Research Fellow, Stanford University’s Media X Program
  • Stuart Kim, Professor, Developmental Biology, Stanford University
  • Daniel Kraft, Cancer/Stem Cell Biology Institute, Stanford University
  • Ray Kurzweil, Founder, Kurzweil Technologies; Chancellor and Trustee, SU
  • Ralph Merkle, Sr Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Major Elements of the 9-Day SU Executive Program
Core Briefings and Discussion


The Executive Program will concentrate on six exponential technologies:
  • AI and Robotics
  • Nanotechnology
  • Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
  • Medicine and Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Networks and Computing Systems
  • Energy and Environmental Systems
Participants will learn:
  • Top-level Critical Concepts: The core concepts that let you understand the biggest ideas in exponential technologies. You’ll be able to recognize exponential trends and multidisciplinary breakthroughs in news and industry reports.
  • Key Projected Breakthroughs: What are the top ten projected breakthroughs that executives should be watching out for in the next decade? What are their implications and leading indicators?
  • Metrics: How do you monitor progress in these technology fields?
  • Legal/Regulatory/Ethical Discussion: What legal and regulatory environments affect these exponentially changing fields? Do current structures account for future changes? What are the biggest ethical issues that are likely to be faced in the next decade?
  • Leading Researchers and Companies: Who are the key thinkers and companies in this field that you must know about?
  • Industrial Implications: How will projected breakthroughs affect specific industries within the next three to ten years?
Workshops

Six two-hour time-slots for interactive workshops with leading thinkers in areas such as:
  • Future Studies Tools and Predictive Markets
  • The Future of Business in a World of Exponential Change
  • Implications of Nanotech Factories
  • Growth of AI and Robotics
  • Future of Medicine & Biotechnology
  • Technologies that Change Energy Systems
Site Visits

Executive participants will visit companies and research facilities during three half-day periods. Potential site visits include: IBM Almaden, 23andMe, Google, Nano-solar, Real-time brain scanning, NASA simulation and visualization facilities and research labs.

Industries Group Workshop

The last two full days of the program are dedicated to discussions between executives, faculty, and staff on the subject of:
  • "How will these Exponential Technologies affect your industry in the next three to ten years?"
  • "How does this affect your current and future planning?"
Executive participants will work in small teams to develop short presentations on how exponential technologies will affect their specific industry sectors, with feedback from discussions with faculty, staff, and other participants.

Other Program Elements

The SU Executive Program includes special events and opportunities for networking:
  • Welcome Reception and Keynote Address
  • VIP Lectures
  • Technology Demonstrations
  • Lunch and Evening Discussions, Social Events, and Networking Sessions
  • Micro-BarCamp (a focused team-building exercise)


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Curriculum

  1. Futures Studies & Forecasting
  2. Policy, Law & Ethics
  3. Finance & Entrepreneurship
  4. Networks & Computing Systems
  5. Biotechnology & Bioinformatics
  6. Nanotechnology
  7. Medicine, Neuroscience & Human Enhancement
  8. AI & Robotics
  9. Energy & Ecological Systems
  10. Space & Physical Sciences
Technology and Advisory Teams:

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Universe Academy



Founder:
Arip Nurahman

Space Academy of Sciences and Technology

"Dari Pencipta Jagat Raya, Kami Mendapat Ilmu"

First

Located at Indonesia

The next 25 years latter

Indonesian Space Sciences & Technology School


The next 50 years latter

The next 70 years latter

The next 100 years latter

The next 100 years latter

The next 150 years latter

The next 250 years latter

The next 500 years latter

The next 1000 years latter

The next 2000 years latter

Guru Besar Teladan, Pemberi Inspirasi:


 Baharuddin Jusuf Habibie Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie official portrait.jpg


You might also be searching for the game, comic, or novel titled
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
"I am a graduate of Starfleet Academy. I know many things."

Worf, (DS9: "The Darkness and the Light")


Official logo, circa 2372.
Starfleet Academy (also referred to as the Space Academy) was the primary service academy of Federation Starfleet. It was officially established in 2161 with the motto Ex Astris, Scientia, to serve as a training facility for Starfleet officers. The headquarters of Starfleet Academy are located in the Presidio in San Francisco. The Academy program typically lasted four years, though certain programs have lasted five, six or eight years. (TNG: "The First Duty", "Conundrum", TOS: "Bread and Circuses".


Department of Universe Academy:

A. Cosmology and Philosophy  

B. Science and Technology Department 

1. Starships
2. Space Stations
3. Tools
4. Medical Equipment
5. Transporter Technology
6. Borg Technology  
7. Computer Technology & Communications Technology
8. Holographic Technology
9. Propulsion Technology   

C. Inter Planet and Stars Relationship Department  
  




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Monday, November 23, 2009

Teknologi Tinggi

High-tech sectors

The sector approach classifies industries according their technology intensity, product approach according to finished products.
It can be noted that technologies which are not seen as high-tech, like Information technology, may also be considered in the scope of being part of higher technological developments.

High-tech industries

Further analysis from OECD has indicated that using research intensity as only industry classification indicator is also possible. The OECD does not only take the manufacturing but also the usage rate of technology into account. The OECD's classification is following (stable since 1973):
Industry name Total R&D-intensity (1999, in %) ISIC Rev. 3
High-Technology

Pharmaceuticals 10.46 2423
Aircraft & spacecraft 10.29 353
Medical, precision & optimal instruments 9.69 33
Radio, television & communication equipment 7.48 32
Office, accounting & computing machinery 7.21 30
Medium-High-Technology

Electrical machinery & apparatus 3.60 31
Motor vehicles, trailers & semi-trailers 3.51 34
Railroad & transport equipment 3.11 352+359
Chemical & chemical products 2.85 24 (excl. 2423)
Machinery & equipment 2.20 29
Furthermore, OECD’s product-based classification supports the technology intensity approach. It can be concluded, that companies in a high-technology industry do not necessary produce high-technology products and vice versa. This creates a problem of aggregation.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic"
Arthur C. Clarke

Manusia akan segera memasuki masa depan.
Teknologi bergerak sedemikian cepatnya sehingga dalam waktu tidak lama lagi seluruh dunia akan berubah besar-besaran. Teknologi-teknologi baru yang sedang dikembangkan benar-benar revolusioner, hal-hal yang nyaris tidak pernah terbayangkan sebelumnya oleh para ilmuwan dan hanya ada dalam khayalan-khayalan manusia.

Di suatu hari nanti, manusia mungkin bisa hidup ratusan tahun tanpa mengenal penyakit, memiliki kecerdasan yang genius, dan pergi bertamasya ke luar angkasa.

Ini adalah beberapa teknologi revolusioner yang diperkirakan akan merubah seluruh dunia :
1. Mesin-mesin Cerdas Seukuran Atom, Nanoteknologi
2. Zaman Manusia-manusia Super, Rekayasa Genetika
3. Energi terdahsyat di Alam Semesta, Fusi Nuklir
4. Regenerasi Wolverine, Stem Cell
5. Komputer Kuantum
6. Baju Menghilang Harry Potter, Metamaterial
7. Space Elevator, Tangga Menuju Bintang-bintang
8. Scramjet
9. Hidup Ratusan Tahun, Resveratrol.
10. Penyatuan Manusia dan Mesin, Singularitas.

1. Mesin-mesin Cerdas Seukuran Atom, Nanoteknologi
“Coal and diamonds, sand and computer chips, cancer and healthy tissue: throughout history, variations in the arrangement of atoms have distinguished the cheap from the cherished, the diseased from the healthy. Arranged one way, atoms make up soil, air, and water. Arranged another, they make up ripe strawberries. Arranged one way, they make up homes and fresh air; arranged another, they make up ash and smoke”.Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation

Nanoteknologi adalah segala teknologi masa depan yang memungkinan manusia memanipulasi partikel-partikel super kecil yang besarnya nyaris seukuran atom! Nanometer sendiri adalah ukuran 1/semilyar meter, atau nyaris ketebalan rambut dibelah 50.000. Itulah kedahsyatan teknologi nano.

Tujuannya adalah menciptakan material-material baru masa depan, bahkan mesin-mesin dan robot-robot seukuran partikel. Material-material itu akan bisa lebih kuat dari intan, super ringan, tahan panas dan dingin dengan skala yang ekstrim, mampu menghantarkan listrik lebih baik, lebih tahan lama, ramah lingkungan dan seterusnya.

Kemungkinan aplikasinya benar-benar dahsyat dan akan merubah seluruh dunia. Bayangkan bila kita bisa menciptakan berbagai material baru yang lebih keras dari intan, dan jauh lebih ringan dari baja. (Carbon nanotubes, sp2 bond). Kita bisa menciptakan kerangka super kuat untuk mobil, pesawat terbang, atau bangunan dan jembatan. Dengan bobotnya yang lebih ringan, semua mobil dan pesawat juga akan lebih hemat energi.

Kita bisa menciptakan baju anti kusut dan tahan noda. Kita juga bisa menciptakan robot berukuran bakteria, nanobots, dan memasukanya ke dalam tubuh manusia. Fungsinya bisa dari menyembuhkan penyakit, menghancurkan sel-sel kanker, bahkan memperkuat tubuh manusia (Feynman, ”Swallowing the Doctor”). Nanobots ataupun nanoparticles bahkan nantinya diperkirakan juga akan bisa kembali menutup lubang ozon.

Dengan komponen seukuran nano, kita bisa membuat supercomputer sebesar kotak korek api, dan media penyimpanan data yang menyimpan jutaan gigabyte informasi tentang umat manusia dan seluruh alam semesta, sebesar seujung kuku.
Bagaimana teknologi ini bisa dilakukan? Karena mikroskop super-canggih yang dapat melihat atom sudah ada sejak 1981, Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), dan Atomic Force Microscope (AFM, 1986). 


2. Era Manusia-manusia Super, Rekayasa Genetika



“Human genetic engineering has the potential to change human beings' appearance, adaptability, intelligence, character, and behaviour. It may potentially be used in creating more dramatic changes in humans”.
Wikipedia Genetic Engineering.

Manusia telah berhasil memetakan gennya dalam proyek raksasa “The Human Genome Project”. Dengan data ini manusia mempunyai peta informasi untuk mengeksplorasi fungsi dan potensi dari tiap gen dalam tubuh manusia. Mulai dari gen yang menentukan bentuk fisik manusia, gen penyebab kanker, gen yang membentuk ingatan, gen yang menciptakan kecerdasan, bahkan gen khusus yang mengatur proses penuaan.

Ini nantinya akan memungkinkan dilakukannya rekayasa genetika untuk menciptakan manusia-manusia masa depan yang sangat unggul. Manusia dengan kesehatan sempurna, terbebas dari penyakit, berumur lebih dari 100 tahun dan mempunyai kecerdasan mendekati genius.

Bayangkan bila manusia menemukan gen spesial yang membuat Einstein menjadi genius. Lalu gen itu bisa ditransfer ke seluruh umat manusia. Atau keunggulan fisik David Beckham, atau bahkan kharisma John F. Kennedy.

Tapi rekayasa genetika tidak hanya untuk manusia, tapi juga bisa untuk tumbuhan dan hewan ternak. Rekayasa genetika bisa menciptakan padi dan gandum jenis baru dengan hasil panen yang berkali-kali lipat. Kita juga bisa menciptakan daging sapi yang lebih empuk dan gurih. Kita bahkan juga bisa menciptakan tanaman dan hewan konsumsi dengan nilai gizi yang unggul.

3. Energi Terdahsyat di seluruh Alam Semesta, The Power of the Stars


“What would fusion mean? Endless, cheap energy. Amazing Star Trek, space travel possibilities. Fame, fortune, and undoubtedly a Nobel or two for the lucky scientist”.

The Observer, Desember 2000

Matahari, setiap detiknya, mengeluarkan energi sebesar seluruh energi yang digunakan seluruh umat manusia sepanjang sejarahnya. Energi plasma hidrogen raksasa sebesar 380 Milyar-milyar Mega-Watt (380^26 MW), per detiknya. Inilah energi yang dikenal sebagai energi Fusi Nuklir (Nuclear Fusion), The power of the Sun. Dan para ilmuwan dunia sedang berusaha mendapatkannya.
Dan ini adalah energi yang membuat bintang-bintang raksasa di alam semesta terbakar selama milyaran tahun. Energi terdahsyat, di seluruh alam semesta.

Sebuah percobaan besar sedang dilakukan di kota kecil Cadarache di ujung selatan Perancis dalam sebuah proyek bernama ITER. Disini atom Deuterium dan Tritium dilebur dengan panas mencapai 150 juta derajat Celcius, nyaris 10 kali panas inti Matahari. Wadah peleburannya dilindungi oleh medan magnet Tokamak sehingga tidak meleleh.

Hebatnya adalah bahwa Deuterium bisa dihasilkan dari air laut biasa, dan Tritium dibentuk dari Lithium yang bisa didapat dari batu alam. Energi terdahsyat di seluruh alam semesta dari Air dan Batu alam.

Kalau para ilmuwan ini berhasil menciptakannya, maka seluruh dunia akan mempunyai sumber energi baru yang dahsyat menggantikan minyak bumi. Energi ini akan begitu besar dan efisien, tidak terbatas, sangat murah, serta ramah lingkungan.

(Note : penggunaan nanoteknologi dalam sel photovoltaic tenaga surya, nanocrystal, juga dikatakan memiliki potensi energi super besar yang mampu menggantikan minyak bumi).


4. Regenerasi Wolverine, Stem Cell
 
 
Bayangkan bila penyakit jantung dan diabetes bisa disembuhkan secara sempurna, orang lumpuh bisa berjalan, dan orang buta, bisa melihat kembali.

Anda pernah melihat seekor cecak, yang bisa menumbuhkan kembali ekornya yang putus dengan sempurna? Atau jika anda penggemar komik ”X-Men”, anda pasti tahu tokoh superhero bernama Wolverine. Saat tubuhnya tertusuk pisau atau tertembus peluru, dia dapat menyembuhkan lukanya dengan nyaris seketika. Ia dapat meregenerasi seluruh sel-sel tubuhnya dengan sempurna, secara instan.
Tapi itu cuma khayalan. Ada sejenis cacing bernama “planarian worm”, yang banyak hidup di laut maupun sungai, yang mampu menumbuhkan ulang bahkan nyaris seluruh tubuhnya.

Planaria, terutama spesies Schmidtea mediterranea, mampu meregenerasi utuh tubuhnya, bahkan bila tinggal sepotong kecil saja tubuhnya yang tersisa, sampai 1/300 bagian. Dan bila kepalanya dihilangkanpun, dia akan menumbuhkan kembali kepalanya dengan sempurna.

Bagaimana jika manusia bisa melakukan itu nantinya? Jika kita dapat secara langsung mengganti semua sel-sel tubuh kita yang rusak dengan sempurna dan tanpa cacat. Para ilmuwan telah nyaris mencapai keajaiban itu. Teknologi biologi molekular bernama Stem Cell, atau Sel Induk. Ini adalah sel paling dasar dari tubuh manusia, yang bisa berubah, atau dirubah, menjadi sel atau organ apapun di tubuh manusia.

Bila anda memiliki penyakit jantung, maka sel jantung itu bisa diganti dengan stem sel dan jantung anda akan berfungsi normal kembali. Bila anda mengalami kebutaan, sel retina anda bisa diganti dengan sel baru dari sel induk dan anda akan bisa melihat kembali.

Jika anda menderita penyakit yang berhubungan dengan fungsi otak seperti stroke, alzheimer atau parkinson, maka sel otak anda yang rusak, bahkan jaringan pusat otak cerebral cortex, bisa diganti dengan stem cell. Dan kalau anda menderita diabetes, maka stem cell akan menyelamatkan anda dengan meregenerasi sel pankreas penghasil hormon insulin.

Stem Cell benar-benar membawa revolusi besar dalam kesehatan umat manusia.

5. Komputer Kuantum

Bayangkan sebuah komputer masa depan, yang kecepatannya ribuan kali lebih cepat dari supercomputer tercepat sekarang. Ribuan kali lebih cepat dan efisien dari IBM ”Roadrunner” di Los Alamos yang kecepatannya mencapai 1.7 petaflops (1 petaflop = 10^15 operasi per detik).

Inilah kedahsyatan komputer kuantum. Komputer ini begitu dahsyat karena diciptakan memakai fenomena keajaiban dunia kuantum, Superposition dan Quantum Entanglement.

Dalam pemecahan kode misalnya (kriptografi), untuk memecahkan kode yang digitnya sampai 140, komputer biasa akan memerlukan waktu milyaran tahun untuk memecahkannya. Tapi dengan komputer kuantum, ini bisa dipecahkan hanya dalam waktu beberapa puluh menit saja.
Dengan komputer ini manusia juga akan bisa memprediksikan cuaca di bumi dan gejala-gejala alam lain yang sangat kompleks dengan sangat akurat berbulan-bulan sebelumnya, seperti gempa bumi dan tornado. Dan tentu saja ini akan makin merevolusikan lagi kecepatan pengembangan seluruh teknologi canggih yang ada sekarang.

6. Jubah Menghilang Harry Potter, Metamaterial
“The announcement last November of an "invisibility shield," created by David R. Smith of Duke University and colleagues, inevitably set the media buzzing with talk of H. G. Wells's invisible man and Star Trek's Romulans”.
MIT Technology Review

Hanya beberapa tahun yang lalu, seluruh ilmuwan ternama dunia masih yakin bahwa tidak ada satupun material di dunia ini yang bisa membuat manusia menghilang. Itu benar-benar tidak mungkin, karena itu melanggar semua hukum alam yang diketahui manusia. Tapi mereka semua salah..
Metamaterial, menjadi salahsatu bahan yang ramai dibicarakan. Bahan ini bisa membuat sesuatu, menjadi tidak terlihat. Sebuah baju yang menggunakan teknologi ini bisa membuat pemakainya ”menghilang”, seperti jubah ajaib dalam ”Harry Potter”.

Sebuah pesawat tempur dengan bahan metamaterial akan jadi tidak terlihat, bukan sekedar tidak terlihat radar seperti teknologi ”Stealth”, tapi benar-benar tidak terlihat mata seperti alat cloaking device dalam Star Trek.

Ini bisa dilakukan misalnya dengan menciptakan material artifisial yang mampu membelokkan radiasi elektromagnetik, demikian pula dengan cahaya, yang pada dasarnya adalah radiasi elektromagnetik. Bahannya bisa seperti timah dan plastik yang diatur dalam struktur pola tertentu.

Metamaterial akan membelokkan cahaya, mengelilingi obyek yang diselimutinya dan berkumpul kembali di ujungnya, seperti air sungai mengelilingi sebuah batu. Dalam penelitian terakhir di Perdue University mereka menggunakan jarum-jarum khusus yang akan membelokkan cahaya melampaui obyek yang diselubungi sementara obyek di belakangnya akan terlihat.

Material ini sedang diteliti di seluruh dunia termasuk di MIT, University of California Berkeley, Duke University, dan Caltech di LA.

7. Space Elevator, Tangga Menuju Bintang-bintang

Space elevator atau Tangga Luar angkasa adalah seperti lift yang sangat tinggi dari bumi menuju ke orbit bumi di luar angkasa, 35.000 kilometer tingginya. Dengan lift ini perjalanan ke orbit bumi akan menjadi lebih mudah, dan murah.
Banyak orang berharap, bahwa program ruang angkasa yang tadinya berhenti sampai di bulan karena sangat mahal, akan bisa dimulai lagi. Dan mungkin impian manusia untuk pergi ke Mars, akan terwujud.

Lift ini awalnya hanya berupa khayalan, tapi ternyata dengan ditemukannya sebuah teknologi baru, hal ini menjadi sangat memungkinkan diwujudkan. Teknologi itu adalah Carbon nanotube, material baru yang dikatakan lebih kuat dari intan dan lebih ringan dari baja.

Hal ini nantinya akan memungkinkan dimulainya era baru dalam penjelahajan ruang angkasa.

8. Memasuki Era Hiper-Sonik, Scramjet

Scramjet akan menjadi salahsatu revolusi terbesar dalam sejarah transportasi dunia. Pesawat tempur tercanggih di dunia sekarang, F/A-22 Raptor milik Amerika berkecepatan maksimal Mach 2, atau 2 kali kecepatan suara. Pesawat penumpang Scramjet, akan membawa anda terbang dengan kecepatan 10 kali kecepatan suara, Mach 10.
Penerbangan dari New York ke Tokyo yang sekarang ditempuh dalam waktu 18 jam yang panjang dan melelahkan, akan ditempuh Scramjet, hanya dalam 120 menit.

Scramjet tidak perlu memakai bahan bakar roket biasa yang mahal dan berat, bahan bakarnya menggunakan hidrogen cair yang dicampur penyedotan oksigen langsung dari atmosfer (air-breathing scramjet engine). Pembakaran hidrogen dan oksigen pada kecepatan supersonik inilah yang akan mengakselerasikan kecepatannya.

Ini akan membuat penerbangan dari satu tempat ke tempat lain di seluruh dunia menjadi super cepat.

9. Fountain Of Youth, Resveratrol
Mungkin, nantinya kita bisa menemukan sesuatu yang memungkinkan kita hidup ratusan tahun. Tapi para ilmuwan mungkin telah menemukannya, sesuatu yang dinamakan “Sirtuin”, Silent Information Regulator 2 (Sir2) proteins dan resveratrol, zat antioxidan yang ternyata banyak ditemukan dalam buah anggur merah (Jadi sering-seringlah makan buah anggur.)

Tapi para ilmuwan juga telah menciptakan sesuatu yang bahkan lebih kuat dari resveratrol yaitu sebuah obat dengan kode, SRT1720.

“SRT1720 is a thousand times more potent than resveratrol, meaning that it could be taken in smaller doses. A person would have to drink hundreds of glasses of wine to get the same health benefits from resveratrol. Resveratrol will pretty soon look like ancient technology,"
David Sinclair, a biologist at Harvard Medical School

10. Singularitas.

Suatu hari nanti, akan datang suatu masa dimana melalui rekayasa genetika seluruh manusia akan mempunyai fisik dan kecerdasan yang nyaris sempurna.

Lalu dengan kemajuan teknologi komputer, komputer kuantum dan nanoteknologi memungkinkan manusia memasukkan Quantum Computer berukuran partikel ke dalam otaknya dan menggunakan partikel-partikel nano untuk makin memperkuat tubuhnya. Ini adalah hal yang dinamakan Singularitas. Penyatuan antara biologi manusia dengan teknologi.

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