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I have mixed feeling about this news item here. While I personally, completely, dissaprove of children using drugs, I think there may be a bigger piece of the evolutionary ethnogenic puzzle contained within. What exactly will 2012 look like?

Girl, 5, makes bong in class

A five-year-old Territory [Austrailia] girl shocked teachers when she showed her class how to make a bong out of a Coke bottle during a "show and tell'' session.

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DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have used self-assembling DNA molecules as molecular building blocks called "tiles" to construct protein-bearing scaffolds and metal wires at the billionths of a meter, or "nanoscale."

The achievements in nanoscale synthesis, which the five authors said could lead to programmable molecular scale sensors or electronic circuitry, were described in a paper in the Sept. 26, 2003, issue of the journal Science written by HaoYan, Thom LaBean, Gleb Finkelstein, Sung Ha Park and John Reif.

The Duke group's research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, and an industrial partners arrangement with Taiko Denki Co., Ltd. Fashioning protein nanoscaffolds and silver nanowires may be only the beginning, because tiles of this form "can be easily programmed by varying the sticky ends to form more sophisticated arrays," the authors wrote.

HOLDING A COMPUTER chip no larger than a penny, Brown neuroscience professor John Donoghue explains how he and his research team implanted a similar chip into a rhesus macaque monkey’s motor cortex, establishing "a brain/machine interface" that allowed the animal to control a computer cursor using nothing more than its thoughts. Stroking his short-cropped white beard, Donoghue leans back in the chair in his university office and describes the experiment.

"We had a monkey playing a video game, and the monkey was using its hand to control a mouse to play the video game. Then, what we did was, we disconnected that mouse and ran it straight out of his brain, so that the control signal to the computer was its brain."

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US report foretells of brave new world

A draft government report [link updated] says we will alter human evolution within 20 years by combining what we know of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences. The 405-page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve human performance leading to telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity.

People may download their consciousnesses into computers or other bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant "hive mind", a network of intelligences connected through ultra-fast communications networks. "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur," the report says. "Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind - an enormous, single, intelligent entity."

DARPA, PNAC and the Perfect Killing Machine

Or for that matter:

BIOCHIP 666/NOAHIDE LAWS & NEW WORLD ORDER

Or a Google search on Libertythink for DARPA.

My problem is not with the technology, which I do not consider inherently evil or misguided. The marriage between consciousness and technology, in my opinion, is an inevitable and beneficial one.

My problem is with those who are presently controlling this technology, (see: controlling human evolution), who would prefer that we create a prison with no doors, within an easily controlled environment, than to unlock the violet doors of hyperspace and unleash the full potential of our species.

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