The gathering storm

[CptnMus]

Can anyone else feel the electric tingle and the tiny hairs rising on the back of your neck whenever you see another breakthrough in a seemingly never ending cascade of breakthroughs.

Really reminds me of running down a scree slope keeping a break neck pace because you know if you try to slow down a landslide is going to run over the top of you.

Nano-scale beam splitter could allow computers to 'think' at light speed, no more messy conversion to electrons and the bottlenecks that ensue.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...121153.htm

Nano-material that allows analogous long term memory retention and processing
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...075107.htm

DNI and Photonic brains are just around the corner

And in Cybernetics/ medical bio-mimicry we could be converting our body's to bio mechanical simulacrum sooner than we think just through the process of damage and repair with superior parts.

Stem cells+artificial hip + 3d printer = customer replacements
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/b1568...d72d99.htm

Functional cyber-hand, note "Functional", there have been many that have been the equivalent of a twitchy manikin.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/eef29...5615af.htm

There was a great upgraded designer eye story from last month but i can't seem to find it now, if anyone else does post it.