tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57966752024-03-12T19:42:39.525-04:00Quantum technologist, NASA-trained Commercial Astronaut Christopher AltmanTracking advanced research and development initiatives at the confluence of quantum mechanics and information science since 2000.Christopher Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16661334523062084804noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796675.post-12148545956593123952023-12-01T03:57:00.002-05:002024-01-03T18:42:21.086-05:00<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/C0GTZzgrcDt/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C0GTZzgrcDt/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; 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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>I began my scientific career at a multidisciplinary research institute, <a href="http://hpluspedia.org/wiki/Starlab" target="_blank"><span>Starlab</span></a>, located deep in the serene and secluded forests outside Brussels, Belgium. <span style="text-align: center;">The lab’s</span><span style="text-align: center;"> principal base of operations was housed in a historic landmark — an imposing 19th</span><span style="text-align: center;"> century manor, remarkable both in scale and magnificence. </span><span style="text-align: center;">In a previous incarnation</span><span style="text-align: center;">, the palatial grounds served as official embassy </span><span style="text-align: center;">for the First Republic of Czechoslovakia</span><span style="text-align: center;">. </span><span style="text-align: center;">Its nearest neighbor, the legendary </span><a href="https://www.pasteur.fr/en" style="text-align: center;">Pastéur Institute</a><span style="text-align: center;">, was one of but a handful of highly-secured </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biosafety_level_4_organisms" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Biosafety Level 4</a><span style="text-align: center;"> labs in the world. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Cofounded by MIT Media Lab founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte">Nicholas Negroponte</a> and serial entrepreneur Walter de Brouwer and established in partnership with MIT, Oxford and Ghent University, <a href="http://hpluspedia.org/wiki/Starlab" target="_blank"><span>Starlab</span></a> was created as a “Noah's Ark” to bring together the world's most brilliant and creative scientists to work on far-ranging multidisciplinary projects that hold the potential to convey a profound and positive impact on future generations. </span>
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<div><span style="text-align: center;">A second base of operations, </span><a href="https://www.starlab.es" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Starlab DF-II (Deep Future II)</a> <span style="text-align: center;">was established in the Royal Observatory in Spain on a mountaintop perch overlooking the city of Barcelona. With a more tightly-focused mission scope of space-borne and neuroscience research, Starlab DF-II has continued to innovate and grow to present day. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">O</span>nsite research ranged from artificial intelligence, biophysics, consciousness, <i>emotics</i>, intelligent clothing, materials science, protein folding, neuroscience, new media, nanoelectronics, quantum computation, quantum information, robotics, stem cell research, theoretical physics — <i>e.g</i>., <a href="https://youtu.be/0X_HDSQXMI0?t=224" target="_blank">the possibility of time travel</a> — <i>transarchitecture</i>, and wearable computing.
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Our custom-built supercomputer, the <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223025629_The_CAM-Brain_Machine_CBM_An_FPGA-based_hardware_tool_that_evolves_a_1000_neuron-net_circuit_module_in_seconds_and_updates_a_75_million_neuron_artificial_brain_for_real-time_robot_control" target="_blank">CAM-Brain Machine</a>, was supported in part by a 1 Million Euro grant from the European Union. The custom-designed and created supercomputer — as powerful as 10,000 Pentium II PCs — harnessed the power of Xilinx field programmable gate array (FPGA) evolutionary hardware to evolve seventy-five million neurons in a massively-parallel artificial neural network instantiated directly <i>in silico</i> using evolutionary genetic algorithms. With each <span>clock</span> tick, the supercomputer simultaneously updates hundreds of millions of cellular automata billions of times per second. </div><div>
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<div><br />When our laboratory came up short on research grants, I personally went to the President himself when fate brought us together at the same time and place on his first trip overseas after election. The Commander in Chief impressed me with both his immediate familiarity with our work and and his enthusiasm in response to my earnest request for $1M in budget that had been allocated for national security priority scientific research topics through a grant newly created by Clinton with his last act in office, the <a href="http://www.nano.gov/about-nni/what" target="_blank">2001 National Nanotechnology Initiative</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZzDpTB4sDFK46JIxc2qH8OsSpuJq5yLK2R7lPX7E1m4XH4wj685VcKLJNaaI3D-5gblI9HMqm6UuIZ9pv1tiD9C0TrYmOSQ_QNCQ_y-6E9ECcs0DQP_9yJzp_2VVRi-zFwYMCFCj5z0uV9vtqg6QhyUYWNE6gEEFS0c0WVYaXsuzmxSmoVMzcaw/s500/1677296404289.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="500" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZzDpTB4sDFK46JIxc2qH8OsSpuJq5yLK2R7lPX7E1m4XH4wj685VcKLJNaaI3D-5gblI9HMqm6UuIZ9pv1tiD9C0TrYmOSQ_QNCQ_y-6E9ECcs0DQP_9yJzp_2VVRi-zFwYMCFCj5z0uV9vtqg6QhyUYWNE6gEEFS0c0WVYaXsuzmxSmoVMzcaw/w200-h180/1677296404289.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>For my contributions to the program, I was selected by the US Government as one of three graduate students most likely to impact the future of the field at <a href="http://www.lanl.gov/conferences/salishan/">Salishan</a>, an honor shared with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack" target="_blank">John Carmack</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=bill+butera+paintable+computing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" target="_blank">Bill Butera</a>, sponsored to attend conferences and senior administrator briefings at Fort Meade, <a href=" https://www.nsa.gov" target="_blank">National Security Agency</a> headquarters outside Washington, DC, attended the <a href="https://globaltechnologysummit.com" target="_blank">World Technology Summit</a> in London, was an invited delegate to the <a href="https://www.senat.fr/lng/en.html" target="_blank">French Sénat</a> to provide testimony on the future of technology and how it will transform our lives over coming decades — and more. </div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2KHys8QCkXdgyq-U3T_swhisxxLUHVy2GyK-iSQJVOr60_VRDkjk1SCKYzQmoRi8jGi5cHaUeRBO9VrhEkEMPwD8kvWnfjN42iwMf6MmF_BIXvBfrVnK-ZIYAc2X1l9NPBCq45HqtJaEIgXiOHtIPF1ABI37OuentG-ZirlgJMhTX-tuNUr5uA/s200/senate2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="133" data-original-width="200" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2KHys8QCkXdgyq-U3T_swhisxxLUHVy2GyK-iSQJVOr60_VRDkjk1SCKYzQmoRi8jGi5cHaUeRBO9VrhEkEMPwD8kvWnfjN42iwMf6MmF_BIXvBfrVnK-ZIYAc2X1l9NPBCq45HqtJaEIgXiOHtIPF1ABI37OuentG-ZirlgJMhTX-tuNUr5uA/s1600/senate2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Following three days of enraptured debate with senior politicians, senators and international diplomats at the French Sénat hearing on artificial intelligence in Paris, the world's first senate hearing on the topic, Starlab's principal investigator and AI program lead predicted I'd one day be elected President myself. Far sooner than that, however, he drew my attention to the threat of assassination from technology Luddites who stand in opposition to the rapid pace of progress in artificial intelligence.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYDRCi7bGzGQSnEaXuyTxrmYsLookBVqW9JjurLTqxSG-2hZ-LtPlCJxMEcUiQvi2-ZZ4IFxaLdyIe1wdZi6uOKZPwsfcjC6tQQ-osvnK_zcFXV09kKCla5bRM6JJ5yyOm93n224mEq8pzhNX6FBBSVwRidzpKpOtX3xtmZsVY-y1NqCKt27DCnw/s768/Aurora.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYDRCi7bGzGQSnEaXuyTxrmYsLookBVqW9JjurLTqxSG-2hZ-LtPlCJxMEcUiQvi2-ZZ4IFxaLdyIe1wdZi6uOKZPwsfcjC6tQQ-osvnK_zcFXV09kKCla5bRM6JJ5yyOm93n224mEq8pzhNX6FBBSVwRidzpKpOtX3xtmZsVY-y1NqCKt27DCnw/w200-h133/Aurora.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="text-align: center;">My living arrangements at the lab consisted of an expansive three-bedroom master suite and fully-stocked library, typically reserved for visiting prime ministers and senior diplomats, and was shared with none other than the project's principal investigator, Hugo de Garis. de Garis came up with the idea to obtain a life-size replica of Fat Man — the solid plutonium core, 21 kiloton, 10,300-pound nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki — and to mount it precariously to the vaulted ceilings of my apartment, with the bomb </span><i style="text-align: center;">hanging</i><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><i style="text-align: center;">directly over my bed</i><span style="text-align: center;">. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8QbDMHeoTZBOREby3jR3IcfSzAM15QMKa4zxftnGozV1xE0w283qINdl7loI1Ctqz1rGqbDDiFaHW9OAJwieEcgQaxy5wF1Az1KBWhcT_ZEaOMgi37VIRI9REIlaumKW3k9labQajQHWoKpfiw9ns4Ipwf8IS-UAN8jy_edUT2V743HMk1VXc8g/s1000/Fat%20Man.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1000" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8QbDMHeoTZBOREby3jR3IcfSzAM15QMKa4zxftnGozV1xE0w283qINdl7loI1Ctqz1rGqbDDiFaHW9OAJwieEcgQaxy5wF1Az1KBWhcT_ZEaOMgi37VIRI9REIlaumKW3k9labQajQHWoKpfiw9ns4Ipwf8IS-UAN8jy_edUT2V743HMk1VXc8g/w200-h125/Fat%20Man.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The sheer audacity of the proposal conveyed an unforgettable impression that seemed more than a little bit crazy at the time. Intending to serve as a dramatic and powerful reminder of “the weight of my responsibility to the future of humanity,” he planned to make the message one to remember. de Garis had just finished filming a Discovery Channel documentary on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FdMY48ukhA" target="_blank">Future of Artificial Intelligence</a> that featured the potential for future conflict between humanity and artificial intelligence. The Volkswagen beetle-sized replica of the bomb served as a prop for the documentary that he purchased outright from the film studio, making arrangements for expedited shipping and delivery direct to Starlab's headquarters in Brussels.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span><span>With the contemporary advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) we see all around us today—and with artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI) seemingly just around the corner — one could say that de Garis, though radical and exceedingly unconventional in his </span>approach<span>, was just a few decades ahead of his time. </span></span><a href="http://openai.com" target="_blank">OpenAI</a> CEO Sam Altman, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/12/tech/elon-musk-ai-company/index.html" target="_blank">xAI</a> founder Elon Musk, <span><span>DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have each claimed that AI poses an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-extinction-risk-openai-deepmind-anthropic-ceos-sam-altman-2023-5" target="_blank">extinction risk on par with nuclear war</a>. </span></span>The work and life experiences and the lessons learned from living at Starlab in such a unique and remarkable environment are priceless, growing ever more timely and relevant with each passing day. </div><div><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span>A recent <a href="https://www.ft.com" target="_blank">Financial Times</a> (FT) spinoff magazine, <a href="https://sifted.eu/articles/starlab-deeptech-university-spinouts-europe" target="_blank"><i>Sifted</i> article highlights</a> my background going back to <a href="http://hpluspedia.org/wiki/Starlab" target="_blank"><span>Starlab</span></a>, AI and time travel research, travels across East Asia to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UeK5V7E5x0c27e0aaxLEH0b4NKwJx49D/view?usp=share_link" target="_blank">create national quantum roadmaps</a> for US national research funding and IC agency directors — on through <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/altman/albums/72157624894265327" target="_blank">foundational research fellowships in quantum mechanics</a> with Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger’s group in Austria and across Europe — from <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/altman/albums/72157690795362321" target="_blank">manned spaceflight training</a> at NASA on to <a href="http://bit.ly/UAPx2022" target="_blank">field expeditions employing state-of-the-art sensors</a>, leading multidisciplinary teams of scientists, researchers, special forces domain experts and engineers to field-test next-generation technologies in austere environments — all under the shared overarching objective of contributing to large-scale global initiatives that hold the potential to convey a profound and positive impact on the future of humanity — <span data-noir-inline-background-color="" data-noir-inline-caret-color="" style="--noir-inline-background-color: #111517; --noir-inline-caret-color: rgba(232, 230, 227, 0.9); background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);">our children, our children’s children, and the generations yet to come. </span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span><span><span data-noir-inline-background-color="" data-noir-inline-caret-color="" style="--noir-inline-background-color: #111517; --noir-inline-caret-color: rgba(232, 230, 227, 0.9); background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"><blockquote data-noir-inline-border-bottom-color="" data-noir-inline-border-left-color="" data-noir-inline-border-right-color="" data-noir-inline-border-top-color="" style="--noir-inline-border-bottom-color: currentcolor; --noir-inline-border-left-color: currentcolor; --noir-inline-border-right-color: currentcolor; --noir-inline-border-top-color: currentcolor; border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><font color="black"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div>⦿<i> <a href="https://sifted.eu/articles/starlab-deeptech-university-spinouts-europe" target="_blank">Starlab: The Noah's Ark of Scientific Research that Launched 1000 Startup Ideas</a></i></div></div></span></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></font></div></blockquote></span></span></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></font></div><div><font color="black"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">– Christopher Altman, Applied Physics, TU Delft</div>Christopher Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16661334523062084804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796675.post-30389448917030592252023-07-10T03:38:00.007-04:002023-08-11T19:00:52.389-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9lp-EvB7-JN0Leh9m1lhwhT5aJSj5nFN2Bi81wFqQD6vY2lEhIa5WzxQWx_g-NQGOgMwbj_f9JUiW6NGayK4MCo_XMysHa4UvMMmcBShwNZKzHBF9319oj4bi3A8qICqXT1thYJhTFS1VIMztnzzCnxqPUjAnv3_619ORpWElFXZVouKeOohyZA/s1080/photo-1540959733332-eab4deabeeaf.jpeg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span data-noir-inline-color="" style="--noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="1080" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9lp-EvB7-JN0Leh9m1lhwhT5aJSj5nFN2Bi81wFqQD6vY2lEhIa5WzxQWx_g-NQGOgMwbj_f9JUiW6NGayK4MCo_XMysHa4UvMMmcBShwNZKzHBF9319oj4bi3A8qICqXT1thYJhTFS1VIMztnzzCnxqPUjAnv3_619ORpWElFXZVouKeOohyZA/w515-h333/photo-1540959733332-eab4deabeeaf.jpeg" width="515" /></span></a></div><p><span data-noir-inline-color="" style="--noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black; font-family: inherit;">Two hundred years ago, if you suggested people would comfortably travel in flying machines—reaching any destination in the world in a few hours time—instantly access the world's cumulative knowledge by speaking to something the size of a deck of cards, or travel to the Moon, or Mars, you'd be labeled a madman. The future is bound only by our imagination. </span></p><p><span data-noir-inline-color="" style="--noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black; font-family: inherit;">Someday very soon we may look back on the world today in much the same way as we did those who lived in the time of Galileo, when everyone lived with such great certainty and self-assuredness that the Earth was flat and the center of the universe. The time is now. A profound shift in consciousness is long overdue. The universe is teeming with life. We're all part of the same human family. </span></p><p class="p1" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span data-noir-inline-color="" style="--noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black; font-family: inherit;">This is potentially the single most momentous moment in our known history—not just for us as a nation, or us as humanity, but <i>as a planet.</i> The technological leaps that could come from developing open contact with <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment.pdf" target="_blank">nonhuman intelligence</a> are almost beyond our comprehension. That is why this is such a monumental moment for us as a collective whole. It could literally change every single one of the eight billion human lives on this planet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span data-noir-inline-color="" style="--noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="p1" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span data-noir-inline-color="" style="--noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black; font-family: inherit;">We stand on the shores of a vast cosmic ocean, with untold continents of possibility to explore. As we continue forwards in our collective journey, scaling the cosmic ladder of evolution, progressing onwards, expanding our reach outwards in the transition to a multiplanetary species—Earth will soon be a destination, not just a point of origin. </span></p><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">– Christopher Altman, Applied Physics, TU Delft</div>Christopher Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16661334523062084804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796675.post-20890879237917793062023-07-08T12:14:00.018-04:002023-07-12T22:15:34.397-04:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxXCi9Im9UbSdsfsofgCoo0fW5S6eBC7fqPW9osd-h5_9yjull5u3bQfNn-D-jF0NsCvHmSj2mgcmkSARS2zV9SP0ROLbkAiLdOFQDWAvtjGGcwOZw9YaRxTRsQ_ldZt8yeQKS0WtKLJIw-I8Pcm9D0F3D4S_xNHkuXIgOKm3wE1VeMT_LME/s1446/TIME%20Magazine%20AI.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="1" data-original-height="1446" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxXCi9Im9UbSdsfsofgCoo0fW5S6eBC7fqPW9osd-h5_9yjull5u3bQfNn-D-jF0NsCvHmSj2mgcmkSARS2zV9SP0ROLbkAiLdOFQDWAvtjGGcwOZw9YaRxTRsQ_ldZt8yeQKS0WtKLJIw-I8Pcm9D0F3D4S_xNHkuXIgOKm3wE1VeMT_LME/w149-h200/TIME%20Magazine%20AI.JPG" width="149" /> </a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Time Magazine, June 2023</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://updates.allianzgi.com/en-gb/investment-ideas/thematic-investing/biodiversity" target="_blank"><i>How Artificial Intelligence Could Save the Day: The threat of extinction and how AI can help protect biodiversity in Nature</i></a></span></h4><div><span style="text-align: justify;">Allianz Global Investors</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Conversation</b> <a href="https://theconversation.com/if-were-going-to-label-ai-an-extinction-risk-we-need-to-clarify-how-it-could-happen-206738">If we’re going to label AI an ‘extinction risk’, we need to clarify how it could happen</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">As a professor of AI, I am also in favor of reducing any risk, and prepared to work on it personally. But any statement worded in such a way is bound to create alarm, so its authors should probably be more specific and clarify their concerns. </span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>CNN</b> <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/30/tech/ai-industry-statement-extinction-risk-warning/index.html">AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">Dozens of AI industry leaders, academics and even some celebrities called for reducing the risk of global annihilation due to artificial intelligence, arguing that the threat of an AI extinction event should be a top global priority.</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>NYT</b> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/ai-threat-warning.html">AI Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn</a><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;"> <i>Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons. </i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>BBC</b> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65746524">Experts warn of artificial intelligence risk of extinction</a> <span class="ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" style="--darkreader-inline-border-bottom: currentcolor; --darkreader-inline-border-left: currentcolor; --darkreader-inline-border-right: currentcolor; --darkreader-inline-border-top: currentcolor; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">Artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity, experts — including the heads of OpenAI and Google Deepmind — have warned.</span></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>PBS</b> <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/artificial-intelligence-raises-risk-of-extinction-experts-warn">Artificial intelligence raises risk of extinction, experts warn</a> <span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;"><i>Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. </i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>NPR</b> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/05/30/1178943163/ai-risk-extinction-chatgpt">Leading experts warn of a risk of extinction from AI</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">Experts issued a dire warning on Tuesday: Artificial intelligence models could soon be smarter and more powerful than us and it is time to impose limits to ensure they don't take control over humans or destroy the world. </span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>CBC</b><i> </i><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/artificial-intelligence-extinction-risk-1.6859118">Artificial intelligence poses 'risk of extinction,' tech execs and experts warn</a> <span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;"><i>More than 350 industry leaders sign a letter equating potential AI risks with pandemics and nuclear war</i>. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>CBS</b><i> </i><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-risk-of-extinction-warning/">AI could pose "risk of extinction" akin to nuclear war and pandemics, experts say</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">Artificial intelligence could pose a "risk of extinction" to humanity on the scale of nuclear war or pandemics, and mitigating that risk should be a "global priority," according to an open letter signed by AI leaders such as Sam Altman of OpenAI as well as Geoffrey Hinton, known as the "godfather" of AI. </span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>USA Today</b> <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/05/31/ai-extinction-risk-expert-warning/70270171007/">AI poses risk of extinction, 350 tech leaders warn in open letter</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">CAIS said it released the statement as a way of encouraging AI experts, journalists, policymakers and the public to talk more about urgent risks relating to artificial intelligence.</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>CNBC</b> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/31/ai-poses-human-extinction-risk-sam-altman-and-other-tech-leaders-warn.html">AI poses human extinction risk on par with nuclear war, Sam Altman and other tech leaders warn</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;"><b>Sam Altman</b>, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, as well as executives from Google’s AI arm DeepMind and Microsoft were among those who supported and signed the short statement. </span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Wired</b> <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/runaway-ai-extinction-statement/">Runaway AI Is an Extinction Risk, Experts Warn</a> <span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;"><i>A new statement from industry leaders cautions that artificial intelligence poses a threat to humanity on par with nuclear war or a pandemic. </i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Forbes</b> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/craigsmith/2023/05/04/geoff-hinton-ais-most-famous-researcher-warns-of-existential-threat/">Geoff Hinton, AI’s Most Famous Researcher, Warns Of ‘Existential Threat’ From AI</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">The alarm bell I’m ringing has to do with the existential threat of them taking control,” Hinton said Wednesday, referring to powerful AI systems. “I used to think it was a long way off, but I now think it's serious and fairly close.</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Guardian</b> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/30/risk-of-extinction-by-ai-should-be-global-priority-say-tech-experts">Risk of extinction by AI should be global priority, say experts</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">Hundreds of tech leaders call for world to treat AI as danger on par with pandemics and nuclear war.</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Associated Press</b> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-risk-of-extinction-ai-54ea8aadc60d1503e5a65878219aad43">Artificial intelligence raises risk of extinction, experts say in new warning</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Al</b> <b>Jazeera</b> <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2023/6/1/does-artificial-intelligence-pose-the-risk-of-human-extinction">Does artificial intelligence pose the risk of human extinction?</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">Tech industry leaders issue a warning as governments consider how to regulate AI without stifling innovation.</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Atlantic</b> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/">We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">An Oxford philosopher argues that we are not adequately accounting for technology's risks—but his solution to the problem is not for Luddites.</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Sky New</b>s<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/artificial-intelligence-is-similar-extinction-risk-as-nuclear-war-and-pandemics-say-experts-12893120"> AI is similar extinction risk as nuclear war and pandemics, say industry experts</a> <span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;"><i>The warning comes after the likes of Elon Musk and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also sounded significant notes of caution about AI in recent months.</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>80,000 hours</b> <a href="https://80000hours.org/articles/existential-risks/">The Case for Reducing Existential Risk</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">Concerns of human extinction have started a new movement working to safeguard civilisation, which has been joined by Stephen Hawking, Max Tegmark, and new institutes founded by researchers at Cambridge, MIT, Oxford, and elsewhere.</span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The Washington Pos</b>t <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/30/ai-poses-risk-extinction-industry-leaders-warn/">AI poses ‘risk of extinction’ on par with nukes, tech leaders say</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">Dozens of tech executives and researchers signed a new statement on AI risks, but their companies are still pushing the technology </span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>TechCrunch</b> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/30/ai-extiction-risk-statement/">OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk</a> <i><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-noir-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #a49d93; --noir-inline-color: #a8a095; color: #999999;">In a Twitter thread accompanying the launch of the statement, CAIS director Dan Hendrycks expands on the aforementioned statement, naming “systemic bias, misinformation, malicious use, cyberattacks, and weaponization” as examples of “important and urgent risks from AI — not simply risk of extinction.”</span></i></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">– Christopher Altman, Applied Physics, TU Delft</div>Christopher Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16661334523062084804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796675.post-86698430712846482692022-08-07T14:55:00.001-04:002023-07-12T10:44:41.854-04:00
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #666666;">“For those who have seen the Earth from space—and for the thousands more who soon will—the experience profoundly transforms your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.” </span><em style="color: #222222;"> </em><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">We dream. It's what makes us who we are. Down to our bones, to the core of our cellular memories, passed down through eons of survival, expansion, exploration and growth. The instinct to build, the drive to seek beyond what we know. It's in our DNA. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #222222;">We cross the oceans, we conquer the skies, unyielding, relentless in our pursuit of the farthest frontiers, venturing forth to launch ourselves outwards and find a new home for our descendants among the stars. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #222222;">Yesterday's impossible becomes today's greatest achievement—and tomorrow's routine. The heavens beckon, parting open. A new generation of innovators and explorers heeds the call, the invitation to take our species further: not just to visit, but to stay. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://bit.ly/The-Future-of-Space-Exploration" style="font-style: italic;">Keynote on the Future of Space Exploration</a>, broadcast live to 108 cities around the world</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Carpe futurum.</span><br />
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</div></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Artificial Quantum Life on the IBM Q Cloud Quantum Computer</span></b><br />
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Physicists in the <a href="http://www.qutisgroup.com/quantum-biomimet602-and-quantum-artificial-life/">QUTIS Quantum Biomimetics and Quantum Artificial Life</a> research group at the <a href="http://www.qutisgroup.com/">Department of Physical Chemistry, University of the Basque Country</a> in Spain have harnessed the unprecedented power of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Quantum_Experience">IBM Q Cloud Quantum Computer</a>—recently made available for public use (<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/10/ibm-passes-major-milestone-with-20-and-50-qubit-quantum-computers-as-a-service/">IBM makes 20 qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service)</a>—to reproduce the hallmark features of Darwinian life and evolution in microscopic quantum systems, proving they can efficiently encode quantum features and biological behaviors that are usually associated with living systems and natural selection.<br />
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</div>The fundamental features of evolution captured in the system include interaction between individuals, self-replication, generational adaptation, and heritable mutations conveyed through the transfer of entangled quantum information. The self-replication mechanism employed by the researchers is based on two partial quantum cloning events—an operation that entangles either the genotype or the phenotype with a blank state, and copies a certain expectation value of the original qubit in both of the outcome qubits.<br />
<blockquote>The final ingredient is the interaction between individuals, which conditionally exchange the phenotypes depending on the genotypes. This behavior is achieved via a four-qubit unitary operation, where genotypes and phenotypes play the role of control and target qubits, respectively. The conjunction of these components leads to a minimal but consistent Darwinian quantum scenario.</blockquote>From the report:<br />
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</div><blockquote>We present the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09442">first experimental realization</a> of a <b>quantum artificial life</b> algorithm in a quantum computer. The <b>quantum biomimetic protocol</b> encodes tailored quantum behaviors belonging to living systems, namely, <b>self-replication</b>, <b>mutation</b>, <b>interaction</b> between individuals, and <b>death</b>, into the IBM cloud quantum computer. </blockquote><blockquote>In this experiment, <b>entanglement </b>spreads throughout generations of individuals, where genuine <b>quantum information</b> features are <b>inherited </b>through genealogical networks. <i>As a pioneering proof-of-principle</i>, <i>experimental data fits the ideal theoretical model with accuracy</i>.</blockquote><blockquote>Thereafter, these and other models of quantum artificial life—for which no classical device may predict its <b>quantum supremacy evolution</b>—can be further explored in novel generations of quantum computers. <b>Quantum biomimetics</b>, quantum machine learning, and quantum artificial intelligence will move forward hand-in-hand through more elaborate levels of quantum complexity.</blockquote>The researchers foresee a rich field of investigation arising from the confluence of quantum and natural life:<br />
<blockquote>The creation of these <b>quantum living units</b> and their possible applications are expected to have deep implications in the community of quantum simulation and quantum computing in a variety of quantum platforms. All in all, the experiments presented here entail the validation of quantum artificial life in the lab and, in particular, in cloud quantum computers<i>,</i> as that of IBM. </blockquote><blockquote>Still another interesting step would be the development of <b>autonomous quantum devices</b> following the theoretical and experimental results in quantum cellular automata. Our quantum individuals are driven by an <b>adaptation</b> effort along the lines of a <b>quantum Darwinian evolution</b>, which effectively <b>transfer quantum information</b> through generations of larger multiqubit entangled states. We believe that the presented results and vision, both in theory and experiments, should hoist this innovative research line as one of the leading banners in the future of quantum technologies.</blockquote>The same research group published the report <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276296058_Artificial_Life_in_Quantum_Technologies"><b>Artificial Life in Quantum Technologies</b></a> last year:<br />
<blockquote>We develop a quantum information protocol that models the biological behaviors of individuals living in a natural selection scenario. The artificially engineered evolution of the quantum living units shows the fundamental features of life in a common environment, such as <b>self-replication</b>, <b>mutation</b>, <b>interaction</b> of individuals, and <b>death</b>. We propose how to mimic these bio-inspired features in a quantum-mechanical formalism, which allows for an experimental implementation achievable with current quantum platforms. This result paves the way for the realization of <b>artificial life </b>and <b>embodied evolution</b> with quantum technologies.</blockquote><br />
<b>Links</b><br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.qutisgroup.com/">QUTIS Group, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, Spain</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.qutisgroup.com/quantum-biomimetics-and-quantum-artificial-life/">Quantum Biomimetics and Quantum Artificial Life – QUTIS</a></li>
<li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09442">arXiv [1711.09442] Quantum Artificial Life in an IBM Quantum Computer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/11/the-future-is-quantum/">The future is quantum – IBM Research</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/">Quantum Computing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/experience">The IBM Q experience</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gizmodo.com/ibm-announces-two-fancy-new-quantum-computers-1820311244">IBM’s Newest Quantum Computers Are the Most Powerful of Their Kind</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609451/ibm-raises-the-bar-with-a-50-qubit-quantum-computer/">IBM announces a trailblazing quantum machine</a></li>
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SolarCoin renewable energy currency was recently featured in </span><a href="https://forbes.com/sites/sap/2017/07/05/how-blockchain-is-incentivizing-a-5000-gigawatt-quest-to-save-the-planet/" style="text-align: left;">Forbes</a><span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;">:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; text-align: left;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://forbes.com/sites/sap/2017/07/05/how-blockchain-is-incentivizing-a-5000-gigawatt-quest-to-save-the-planet/"><b>Forbes </b>|<b> Inside a 5,000 Gigawatt Quest To Save The Planet</b></a></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #666666;">“Our mission in founding SolarCoin—to accelerate our societal transition from petroleum-dependent, war-scourged, scarcity economics to a renewable-energy based, peaceful, post-scarcity economy—is now shared with Elon Mus</span><span style="color: #666666;">k. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #666666;">SolarCoin is a global reward for renewable solar energy. Instead of being digitally mined, proof of work happens in the physical world. SolarCoin is earned for generating solar electricity: 1 § (SLR) per MWh, or 97,500 terawatt-hours of generation over the next forty years. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #666666;">Active in 32 countries, the initiative launched in a worldwide press conference at MIT Media Lab in February 2016. We're working in close partnership with scientists and researchers at NASA, MIT, Xerox PARC, Google, the US national laboratories and other leading labs, expanding rapidly worldwide, to low-Earth orbit―and beyond. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #666666;">As the “SETI of solar,” with more than seven million real-time solar monitoring stations around the globe, set to grow to more than 200M over the next decade, SolarCoin is the world’s lowest carbon currency—the largest environmental monitoring experiment—and the largest private renewable energy project in the world.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #666666;">SolarCoin launched in a worldwide press conference at MIT in February 2016, since working in partnership with scientists and researchers from NASA, MIT, Xerox PARC, Google, the US national laboratories and other leading labs, expanding rapidly worldwide, to low-Earth orbit―and beyond.”</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"> – <span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/altman">Christopher Altman</a>, Cofounder and Chief Scientist</span></blockquote><br />
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“We’re off to a fine start with our guests for our two-hour live radio interview this week: NASA-trained <a href="http://www.facebook.com/quantum.astronaut">quantum astronaut</a> Christopher Altman (vitae) and his muse, <a href="https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B07GWZuqDGWRIm6">Kate Kie Russell</a>—a serendipity spark, technology catalyst, long-term strategic planning, conference and events coordinator, professional model, DJ, host and emcee. Kate is fluent in Japanese, and a talented icebreaker into the vast, unexplored terrain of “Deep Future” thinking.”<br />
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“On this show we explore such erudite topics as breakthroughs in quantum entanglement and teleportation, CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, artificial intelligence and Elon Musk's Open AI initiative, magnetic thorium nuclear plasma drives, warp drives and wormholes for deep space exploration, the<i> <a href="https://hpluspedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero_Foundation">Tau Zero Foundation</a> </i>and pioneering interstellar flight, multidisciplinary research institute <a href="http://www.hpluspedia.org/wiki/Starlab">Starlab | Deep Future</a>, time travel and retrocausality, Pentagon field operations for the next generation of government leadership in the post-scarcity economy, outer space and inner space—and a myriad of other future trends. Christopher is working in each of these areas to transition them from deep future to present-day. – Enjoy!”<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">– Christopher Altman, Applied Physics, TU Delft</div>Christopher Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16661334523062084804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796675.post-23054259412382939872014-10-25T14:29:00.004-04:002023-06-03T15:45:41.783-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span chrome-extension:="" class="<img src=" height="180" hokleipfjbnpkdlfaebfamgadpleagie="" images="" pixel.gif="" rel="media7776953501161188" title="chrome-extension://hokleipfjbnpkdlfaebfamgadpleagie/images/pixel.gif" width="180"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As we expand <span style="color: #444444;">our reach outwards to other worlds</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">—</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span chrome-extension:="" class="<img src=" height="180" hokleipfjbnpkdlfaebfamgadpleagie="" images="" pixel.gif="" rel="media7776953501161188" style="color: #444444;" title="chrome-extension://hokleipfjbnpkdlfaebfamgadpleagie/images/pixel.gif" width="180">and other stars</span>—<span style="color: #444444;">Earth comes into view as a</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">destination</span><span style="color: #444444;">, no longer limited as a point of origin.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;">Inspirational highlights from my closing speech and subsequent interview with the press on our collective responsibility to the future</span>—<span style="color: #222222;">as our technologies converge and we take our next steps outward to the stars</span>—<span style="color: #222222;">delivered to the full assembly of distinguished international delegates at the recent </span><a href="http://hive.org/about/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Global Leadership Forum</a><span style="color: #222222;">, taken up and published by nationally-acclaimed </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/soulsofsanfrancisco/photos/a.207811515988528.30749.135460516556962/530448027058207/?type=1&theater">Souls of San Francisco</a>, <span style="color: #222222;">reaching out to inspire hundreds of thousands around the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><em>" </em></span><span style="color: #666666;">We </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><i>"</i><em> </em> </span></blockquote>
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<div><table><tbody><tr><td>As we continue forwards in our collective journey, scaling the cosmic ladder of evolution, progressing onwards, expanding our reach outwards to other worlds, and other stars, in the transition to become a multiplanetary species—Earth comes into view as a destination, no longer limited as a point of origin. We stand on the shores of a vast cosmic ocean, with untold continents of possibility yet to explore.<br />
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From early childhood, I set out to convey a profound and positive impact on the long-term future of humanity, to make the world a better place for the generations yet to come. I committed my life purpose to the singular objective of ensuring that integrity, balance, and ethical responsibility hold paramount importance as priorities in scientific research and principal government leadership as we're collectively propelled forwards as a species. With unprecedented leaps and bounds of progress in our scientific understanding—enabled by the development of converging and expanding exponential technologies—newfound, unexpected discoveries await, just over the horizon.<br />
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Rapid advances in fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, molecular nanotechnology, neuroscience, renewable energy, spaceflight, supercomputing and quantum technologies—each enabled by the rapid technological progress of Moore’s Law doublings in computer processing power, speed and complexity—will converge to confer radical changes to our society over coming decades, as we move forward in the collective transition towards the dawn of a post-scarcity economy. The future is unbounded. The responsibility falls upon us to ensure that its limitless potential is filled with dreams of hope, happiness, freedom and fulfillment.<br />
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I began my scientific career at a Deep Future, multidisciplinary research institute—<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlab" target="_blank">Starlab</a></em>—located in the serene and secluded forests outside Brussels, Belgium. Our research institute, co-founded by MIT Media Lab founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte">Nicholas Negroponte</a> and established in partnership with MIT, Oxford and Ghent University, was created as a "Noah's Ark" to bring together the world's most brilliant and creative scientists to work on far-ranging projects that hold the potential to convey a profound and positive impact on future generations. My research group and artificial intelligence project at the lab was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2001 as the “World's Most Complex Artificial Brain.” I lived and worked at the institute, soon taking up research collaborations with the principal scientists of our NASA and USAF-sponsored time travel division—profiled in a prominent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X_HDSQXMI0" target="_blank"><i>Discovery Channel Special</i></a>—in work that was widely published, featured in a Discover Magazine cover story, and continues to this day: we just completed a chapter contribution to a Springer academic volume on <em>Spacetime from Quantum Topology</em>.<br />
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When our laboratory came up short on research grants, I personally went to the President himself to request $1M in additional budget from funds allocated through Clinton's 2001 <a href="http://www.nano.gov/about-nni/what" target="_blank">National Nanotechnology Initiative</a>. For my contributions to the program, I was selected by the US Government as one of three graduate students most likely to impact the future of the field at <a href="http://www.lanl.gov/conferences/salishan/">Salishan</a>, sponsored to attend conferences and senior administrator briefings at national agency headquarters outside Washington, DC, attended the World Technology Summit in London, was an invited delegate to the French Sénat to provide testimony on the future of technology and how it will transform our lives over coming decades—and more. <br />
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That was my first job out of college. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, I volunteered and was subsequently elected to serve as Chairman for a UN Disarmament and International Security Committee, leading more than 500 diplomats to address and combat the threats of international terrorism, global and regional nuclear security, and information warfare. </td><td><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWKhV2Hl3EQ2OI2JWpIxRRxUBKwV89hvyfIUsBhTc_wGuDfqepolbb6EpefuZ3-fC06iunDs3YgSZq9wcWmzTKrhE-qVc6j0QeJJOqbqnexPrQiVxFBXtwecnugYuBSV8VHkE6eA/s1600/astronaut_training2.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" width="180" /><br />
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*</span> Special thanks to USAF General <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/about/centerdirector.html">Pete Worden</a> for insight and inspiration. Photos from <i>Starlab</i> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/christopher.altman/media_set?set=a.10150798234245564.739867.651885563&type=3" target="_blank">spaceflight training</a> at NASA Ames, Johnson Space Center and commercial providers around the country, 2009 - present.<br />
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See also: <i><a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/astronaut-scientists-for-hire-open-new-research-frontier-in-space" target="_blank">Astronaut scientists for hire open new research frontier in space</a></i><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>" </i><span style="color: #666666;">I'm the only one I know that sleeps floating. It's delicious. You don't know where you are, and after a while, because your limbs aren't touching anything, you lose sense that you even have them. </span><i>"</i> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"> – <span style="color: #444444;">NASA Astronaut Dr. Story Musgrave</span></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>" </i><span style="color: #666666;">Follow your heart. One step at a time, you can build a very powerful repertoire to offer to the world. That’s who you are. </span><i>"</i> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"> – <span style="color: #444444;">Story Musgrave</span><br />
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Back here at home, only a few short footsteps from your door, countless species of sea life and coral live out their lives: lush cliffs and caves, flora and fauna, and schools of fish, from tiny as needles, to larger than a great dane―millions of intertwined species, an interplay of flourishing ecosystems, locked together in singular symbiosis. An octopus drifts silently by, observing its surroundings in the stillness of soft, quiet reflection, as the full spectrum of the rainbow―liquid lines of chameleon color, glimmer just beneath its membranous skin.<br />
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With no moon, and no light above save for distant twinkles of starlight and the light of worlds light years away, two distant lightning storms on the East and West horizons bring intense contrast to the endless voids both above and below. As far as the eyes can see, no land interrupts this unbroken line of darkness. Complete blackness blankets the waters beneath, with the exception of phosphorescent plankton, which flash and glimmer like sparks in the night as we glide silently through the waters, or when softly stirred by a cool caress from the back of your hand. The dividing line between jet black sea and infinite sky is wholly absent, evoking a sense of leisurely drift through those deep, distant space nebulae—a synaesthetic, psychedelic experience, much akin to sensory deprivation.<br />
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The luminous arms of the Milky Way, usually no more than a faint trace across the sky when enveloped in the chaos and cacophony of our contemporary pachinko parlor-laced urban climes, still a dim spark, even, from deep in the meadows of a distant countryside—shine bright as Times Square overhead. An experience beyond words, evocative of the distinctive hallmarks called to mind through the end sequences of <i>Contact</i>, or Kubrick's <i>2001</i>.<br />
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Across the universe, the distant void yields to powerful beams of light borne from nuclear fusion sourced deep in the hearts of a trillion stars, each shining radiant warmth and light down upon alien worlds. Consider, for the briefest of moments: the unimaginably vast number of living worlds that circle those other suns, in this tiny distant window of space and time alone. Each and every one holds, 'tween the span of its horizons, boundless wonders and volumes of mysteries—countless miracles of dazzling complexity that mirror our own richly-populated, endlessly intricate, fractal, yet familiar home world.<br />
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Imagine how many others just like you are out there right now, this very moment―looking up to us in curiosity and contemplation, through the dizzying, stellar symphony of unfamiliar constellations dancing their way across strange, alien nighttime skies. Each calls back to us through the unfathomable void, making their way across the vast expanse of more than thirteen billion light years of space and time.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: inherit;">In Kona, on the Big Island of Hawai‘i in July 2013, I was extremely fortunate to finally meet a longtime inspiration in my work</span>—<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/richard-hughes&source=gmail&ust=1516441266275000&usg=AFQjCNE2I-JN_h9DtZ5LiYvdtbxGtvgkog" href="https://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/richard-hughes" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Richard Hughes</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">—D</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: inherit;">irector of the Quantum Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hughes now serves as </span>Chairman of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://qist.lanl.gov/&source=gmail&ust=1516441266275000&usg=AFQjCNEHdnvQ7bHmIuYHoxo-K9Co2-LpRw" href="http://qist.lanl.gov/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">US Government Quantum Roadmap</a>. He<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> was gracious enough to extend me an invitation to visit. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When I extended my hand to greet him at that quantum optics conference, I remarked what an honor it was to meet—how the pioneering vision of his roadmap had inspired me in the course of my graduate studies. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He replied, "To the contrary, it’s an honor for me to meet you—</span><i>you</i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> inspired me!" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I asked him, "How could that be? I was just a graduate student at the time." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He pointed to my collection of reports submitted to the Director of US Advanced Research and Development Activity, moving on to the Disruptive Technology Office. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those reports were written in the course of my QUIST Program research in East Asia, headquartered in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan—traveling to leading national labs, universities and corporate research institutes across Europe and East Asia. </span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: inherit;">No formal assessments or national roadmaps had been yet undertaken at such an early time in the field—so he simply followed my lead in crafting national assessments, taking them on the archetypal example in drafting the official </span><a href="http://www.qist.lanl.gov/" style="font-family: inherit;">US Roadmap</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: inherit;">. </span><br />
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Hughes's account of my historical contributions led to his extension of an invitation for me to visit the lab.<br />
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Over the last week<span style="font-weight: normal;">, we shared the sunset from the summit of</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152665920890564&set=a.10152665899305564.1073741831.651885563&type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-prn1%2F894999_10152665920890564_223180758_o.jpg&smallsrc=https%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net%2Fhphotos-ak-prn1%2F27141_10152665920890564_223180758_n.jpg&size=1026%2C687" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Mauna Kea</a><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">, tracked binary star clusters and shining nebulae from telescopes atop the mountain, joined a round of native Hawaiian chants to give thanks to the land, the jungle and our ancestors in a hand-built, solar-powered treehouse deep in the rainforest—snorkeled through the same crystalline waters as the sea turtles and dolphins in </span><a href="http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/48/ce/53/the-bay-club-at-waikoloa.jpg" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Waikoloa Bay</a><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">, enjoyed fresh coconut water and enchanted conversations on quantum mechanics and the nature of reality as whirling dervishes, beautiful dancers flitted around us at the naked drum circle of </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Kehena+black+sand+beach&safe=active&client=firefox-a&hs=EJe&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=GDLhUe_KAYqxigLInoFw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1370&bih=778" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Kehena's black sand beach</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">—</span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">and took in arms-length views of active cliffside </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=lava+walk&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=WjLhUdW4EM3biwL-goDoBA&biw=1370&bih=778&sei=XTLhUaPzJayNigK56ICABA#um=1&safe=active&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&channel=fflb&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=hawaii+lava+walk&oq=hawaii+lava+walk&gs_l=img.3...3186.3654.0.3897.7.5.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c.1.19.img.J3iwa-ZSsO4&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.48705608,d.cGE&fp=6fcf0bf64ddc0c66&biw=1370&bih=778" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">lava flows</a><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> and giant, billowing sulfuric gas clouds, violently heaving and shaking the ground beneath our feet, erupting into massive steam columns as they crashed into the ocean, slicing through the thin ribbon of coastline interface between land and sea, dead in the middle of the night, miles from civilization ...</span><i style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"> </i></h3>
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</i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger"><span style="color: blue;">Anton Zeilinger</span></a>’s achievements have been most succinctly described in his citation for the Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics (UK), "For his pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information. Anton is a pioneer in the field of quantum information and the foundations of quantum mechanics. He and his colleagues have demonstrated many world's-first achievements in the field, including quantum teleportation, entanglement swapping, dense coding, entanglement-based quantum cryptography, one-way quantum computation, multipartite quantum entanglement, and blind quantum computation. In addition, he has made many important contributions to the conceptual and experimental foundations of quantum mechanics, particularly in the areas of quantum entanglement and macroscopic quantum mechanics.<i>"</i><br />
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I lived and worked with Anton's group on two consecutive Austrian National Research Fellowships for my research proposals to "<a href="http://www.akademietraunkirchen.com/workshop/quantum-physics-in-higher-dimensional-hilbert-spaces/">Quantum Mechanics in Higher Dimensional Hilbert Spaces</a>," and "<a href="http://www.akademietraunkirchen.com/en/workshop/what-exists-in-the-quantum-world/">What is Real in the Quantum World?</a>" at the <a href="http://www.akademietraunkirchen.com/en">Austrian International Akademie, Traunkirchen</a>, with <a href="http://www.quantum.at/zeilinger">Anton Zeilinger</a>, <a href="http://aspelmeyer.quantum.at/">Marcus Aspelmeyer</a>, <a href="http://quantumfoundations.weebly.com/caslav-brukner.html">Caslav Brukner</a>, Rupert Ursin, William Wootters, Christopher Fuchs, Daniel Greenberger and Michael Horne.<br />
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For some, he is the Austrian superstar of science. For others, because of his frequent public presence, he can be seen as a self-promoter. This much is not in dispute: The experimental physicist Anton Zeilinger (67) is one of those rare domestic scientists whose work has drawn the attention of the elite of the international scientific community. He sees science as few others do, through vivid and intricate experimental work—yet he taps into understandable language and easily reaches a lay audience. Now he will move to the top of the venerable Academy of Sciences (AAS) to convey his ideas as its chief.<br />
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"Mr. Beam," the "Quantum Pope," the "Pop Star of Science," "the Warlock from Vienna," as Zeilinger is sometimes called, with his graying beard and curly locks as a perfection of the stereotype of a scientist, enjoys widespread popularity despite sometimes facing criticisms. "The main reason he can convey such youthful enthusiasm is because he is an enthusiast himself."</div>
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Publicity never seems a motive for Zeilinger's work, recipient of the Club of Education and Science Journalists Award in 1996 for "Scientist of the Year". His motive is his enthusiasm for his subject. And so, as the award-winning physicist taught quantum physics to the Dalai Lama, discussed the meaning of life with Nobel laureates, and has always been set for even higher (Nobel Prize) ordinations. All this has been accomplished in a relatively short time—just looking back 15 years, when the physicist in 1997, with his teleportation experiments, made the breakthrough in the headlines through "beamed" quantum teleportation.</div>
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Anton Zeilinger was born in May 20, 1945 in Ried, Upper Austria. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna, yet with "not a single hour attended to a lecture on quantum physics." He had to acquire his knowledge from books, as he writes in his book "Einstein's Veil" (2003). His PhD was awarded at the Atomic Institute of Helmut Rauch, with the "father of quantum optics in Austria," where he worked after graduation (1971) as an assistant. This period also saw his first research visits abroad, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late Nobel laureate Clifford G. Shull's lab (1994).</div>
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Anton made several other trips abroad before he returned to his homeland in 1990 as professor of the University of Innsbruck. In 1998 he moved to Vienna University, and since then there, to the Institute for Experimental Physics. In 2003 he also founded, together with the University of Innsbruck physicists groups led by Rainer Blatt, Rudolf Grimm and Hans Briegel, the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), of which he also serves as the scientific director. Zeilinger also leads as physics Dean for the University of Vienna.</div>
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Zeilinger appears as a gifted experimenter, succeeding in sophisticated attempts to uncover altogether new relationships in Nature, and to confirm or disprove current theories, where he also repeatedly ventures back to the basics and the foundational principles of quantum physics. He works, and leads, in one of the most exciting and fastest growing areas of physics today: quantum technology. </div>
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<b><a href="http://bit.ly/Synergy-Strike-Force">Synergy Strike Force</a></b> operates under DoD directive 3000.05 to support humanitarian relief and stabilization efforts in post-conflict environments such as those in Afghanistan today. The group is comprised of specialists with various technical skills who carry access to a wide range of social networks, with operators functioning alongside and in the same capacity as special forces operatives.<br />
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These specialists live and work “outside the fence” on long-term deployments to the region, integrating with the local population, assimilating with them in culture, appearance, and in their native language. However—as an independent, autonomous unit under assignment from the Pentagon, the OSD, and under interagency intelligence community programs—personnel assigned to the task force can also come from outside the formal boundaries of the US Government.<br />
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Project initiatives include the provision of free and resilient power, water, communications and Internet access; solar-powered, amorphous, ad-hoc distributed intelligent cellular and radio communications systems, medical supplies, education, open-source mapping and hyperspectral and multispectral satellite resources to protect endangered civilians worldwide. One example of program success: the initiative provided more than two million Internet-enabled cell phones to Afghan youths, enabling them to take part in the global dialogue.<br />
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The project puts boots on the ground to save lives every day in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, in other Mideast and South Asian countries, extending operations to South America, with trained DIA, USAF and OGA officers who assimilate seamlessly with the local population in the field and in their native environment. The program is coordinated by former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linton_Wells_II">Principal Assistant Secretary of Defense Lin Wells II, PhD</a>, who served as Chief Information Officer for the Department of Defense.<br />
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Over coming decades, widespread armed conflict is anticipated to continue to diminish. However, natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis are anticipated to rise in frequency as a result of the impact of widespread environmental instability, giving rise to resource shortages in primary affected populations worldwide.<br />
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Linton Wells II, as former DEPSECDEF and DoD CIO, serves as US Force Transformation Chair, leading a wing of the Pentagon to take America’s military forward to meet this transition—to transform the United States armed forces from an efficient war-fighting machine into a unified force for disaster relief and humanitarian aid response teams in critical hot spots and third-world countries around the world.<br />
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The group further provides operations support at National Defense University (NDU), the Pentagon, and in the heart of the desert in Black Rock City, Nevada—where our camp provided the high-speed internet communications backbone for the core of the city via microwave internet field relays to the most proximate nearby town of Gerlach.<br />
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In previous years, critical injuries, such as broken bones, required the immediate and costly response of a helicopter medivac team to airlift the victims to the nearest main hospital in Reno, Nevada. The communications access provided by our team allows medical personnel and experienced X-ray technicians stationed on-site to locally diagnose these injuries, reducing the incident costs arising from inevitable accidental casualties.<br />
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The collective of Black Rock City itself serves as a large-scale technology, behavioral psychology and social network testbed, providing the world’s only experimental incubator for the study of a post-scarcity economy.<br />
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Rapid advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, neuroscience and cognitive technology—enabled by the rapid technological progress of Moore’s Law doubling in computer processing power, speed and complexity—will converge to confer radical changes to our society over coming decades. <br />
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The subject of the post-scarcity economy is of intense scrutiny to government leadership and to intelligence organizations around the world—who would seek to justify their continued existence in perpetuity through the transitions enabled by this technological convergence—as concurrent advances such as those in nanotechnology and three-dimensional printing will make currency and corporations wholly obsolete.<br />
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Why go to the store to buy a computer, electronics or pharmaceutical drugs, when the open-source plans to manufacture and print them are widely available on the Internet? Witness the contemporary impact to the music and movie industries. <br />
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Major industry associations, such as the RIAA and MPAA, are embroiled in a losing power struggle to counter an existential threat to their foundations and their very existence—that threat of rampant music and Hollywood film piracy—which is enabled by widespread internet use and the widespread advent of file sharing technologies.<br />
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The post-scarcity economy was a principal thesis in my Chair Report from the UNISCA First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, “<i><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99KWApna6GoaEs3WG9GdjlDV2M/view">Converging Technologies: The Future of the Global Information Society</a></i>,” distributed to principal government leaders around the world at UNISCA, the United Nations and the Executive Office of the President—then selected as recipient of the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99KWApna6GoaEs3WG9GdjlDV2M/view">Information Security Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Policy</a> from RSA in 2004.<br />
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After side-by-side field assignments in Black Rock City, under operational mandate “<a href="http://bit.ly/Synergy-Strike-Force">Beta at Burning Man, not in Baghdad</a>,” program demonstrations were conducted at the Pentagon and at National Defense University in conjunction with Operation <a href="http://star-tides.net/about">STAR TIDES</a> in Washington, DC.<div class="blogger-post-footer">– Christopher Altman, Applied Physics, TU Delft</div>Christopher Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16661334523062084804noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796675.post-74676407379622183982012-05-23T13:28:00.005-04:002012-05-23T17:52:54.119-04:00<br />
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<b><i>Tunable photon-ion entanglement enables quantum networks </i></b><span style="color: grey;">Nature | Innsbruck</span><span style="color: grey;"> </span>In <i><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7399/full/nature11120.html">Nature</a></i> <b>485</b> and concurrent <a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/efficient-tunable-ion-photon-entanglement-interface-enables-quantum-networks" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">KurzweilAI</a> press coverage, <a href="http://heart-c704.uibk.ac.at/index.html?http://heart-c704.uibk.ac.at/people/rainer.blatt/">Rainer Blatt</a>, <a href="http://www.uibk.ac.at/sp-physik/people/t_northup.html">Tracy Northup</a>, and Andreas Stute have constructed an interface for quantum networks that is both efficient and freely tunable—the first interface between a single ion and a single photon. "Whenever we have to transfer quantum information from processing sites to communication channels, and vice versa, we’re going to need an interface between light and matter," explains Northup. "This technique has two significant advantages over previous approaches that have entangled atoms with light: the efficiency with which we produce entangled photons is quite high and in principle could be increased to over 99 percent. But above all, this setup allows us to generate any possible entangled state.”</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">– Christopher Altman, Applied Physics, TU Delft</div>Christopher Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16661334523062084804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5796675.post-81096093261499369232012-01-18T19:47:00.002-05:002017-10-23T16:49:28.459-04:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCE9zbk2F0Yy3UQ4OxJWeb9oanQkCW0FkhsPT9dcXjxlKClPGoLh8PbAUHzr0BXzdGmpH0EwWbFMNVNJIAGrqdW4MjrajP2GFhjcdvXeQeqOjZUPws8kcqJ7Gpi00Jd0Pl9Am_w/s1600/QFT_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCE9zbk2F0Yy3UQ4OxJWeb9oanQkCW0FkhsPT9dcXjxlKClPGoLh8PbAUHzr0BXzdGmpH0EwWbFMNVNJIAGrqdW4MjrajP2GFhjcdvXeQeqOjZUPws8kcqJ7Gpi00Jd0Pl9Am_w/s640/QFT_logo.png" width="520" /></a><br />
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<b><i>Inaugural NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference </i></b><span style="color: grey;">NASA Ames Research Center</span><br />
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NASA scientists joined the best quantum technology experts from academia, government and industry to identify new and exciting opportunities in space exploration, aeronautics, earth and space science where quantum technologies can have the greatest impact.<br />
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<a href="http://quantum.nasa.gov/">Conference topics</a> included next-generation quantum experiments for measurements of time and distance, navigation, field sensing, and gravity wave detection; scalable quantum computing architectures and algorithms; quantum key distribution for practical secure transmission over long distances, including fiber channels, earth-satellite links, and space-based communications networks.<br />
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Collaborations forged from this conference led to our invited submission to NIAC, OCT and DARPA under QUINESS mandate to create the world's first global quantum teleportation network: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99KWApna6GoX3JzZGMzbzNrMjg/view" target="_blank">Astronaut Development and Deployment of a Secure Space Communications Network</a>, with colleagues Rupert Ursin, Colin Williams, Paolo Villoresi, and Vikram Sharma.<br /><br />
See also: <a href="https://www.quora.com/Does-China-have-thriving-physics-and-cosmology-fields-the-way-the-US-does-Why-dont-we-hear-about-Chinese-scientists-making-new-discoveries-of-the-universe/answer/Christopher-Altman-4" target="_blank">World’s-first demonstration of Earth-to-space quantum teleportation</a><br />
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<a href="http://quantum.nasa.gov/">Conference Website</a> <br /><a href="http://connect.arc.nasa.gov/quantum/">Live Videoconference Stream</a><br /><br /><b><br />Update</b> February 3, 2012 <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">|</span> Videos and presentations are now online at the <a href="http://quantum.nasa.gov/assets/quantum-conference-photo.jpg">conference website</a>.<br /><br />With special thanks to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sworden/" target="_blank">Pete Worden</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrieldurkin" target="_blank">Gabe Durkin</a>.<br />
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