Sunday, 16 December, 2018

We Are Coming Close To Creating Superior Beings

We Are Coming Close To Creating Superior Beings

Posted on Saturday, 3 December, 2016Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

We Are Coming Close To Creating Superior Beings.

This warning from Kazuo Ishiguro is not new. In fact, many scientists have been alarmed in the past years by the speed of worldwide genetic engineering and experimentations, and all this carried on in some countries with very few safeguards as to ethical and legal restraints. The acquisition of scientific knowledge has shot off the graph in the last fifty years, and as Ishiguro has proposed, there is an urgent need to engage science with society at large, especially in gene editing, artificial intelligence and robotics.

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-British novelist, columnist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, but in 1960 his family moved to England when he was five years old. He is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 award for his novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, The Times ranked him 32nd on their list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.”

Read Article Here:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/02/kazuo-ishiguro-were-coming-close-to-the-point-where-we-can-create-people-who-are-superior-to-others

Geminids and Friends.
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel López (El Cielo de Canarias). From a radiant in the constellation of the Twins, the annual Geminid meteor shower rained down this week. This skyscape collects about 70 of Gemini's lovely shooting stars in a digital composition made from multiple exposures taken over a six-hour period near the shower's peak on December 14 from Teide National Park on the Canary Island Tenerife. Though Gemini lies off the top left of the frame, the Milky Way sweeps through the starry background. Sharing the sky below and left of center are recognizable stars and nebulosities of Orion. A yellowish Aldebaran and the Hyades are toward the right along with the Pleiades star cluster. The faint green coma of Comet 46P Wirtanen, closest to Earth this weekend, lies below the Pleiades stars. Dust swept up from the orbit of active asteroid 3200 Phaethon, Gemini's meteors enter Earth's atmosphere traveling at about 35 kilometers per second.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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