Doctor Sergio Canavero is raising funds to conduct the first ever human head transplant, and it could be funded by Mark Zuckerberg. The Italian neurosurgeon has already conferenced with doctors in Russia who are willing to carry out the surgery.
Doctor Makes Video For Support Towards the World’s First Head Transplant
The patient and recipient of this procedure is Valeri Spiridonov, a 31-year-old Russian computer scientists. He was born with Wedin-Hoffmann disease, a rare degenerative illness. He wants to become the first person to have a human head transplant, which would be carried out by Dr Canavero. Canavero has declared that he has a 90% chance of success. If the surgery is actually successful, he could make medical history.
This surgery could cost about $12 million, so Canavero is calling for the world’s billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to help fund the surgery.
Doctor Calls Out Mark Zuckerberg to Fund Head Transplant
Dr. Canavero specifically called to Mark Zuckerberg, saying that ‘he comes to mind since he has just been sponsoring live extension research and this is certainly a step toward live extension’. Apparently, the doctor has already been in talks with another team of surgeons in China, who have been carrying out the surgery on cadavers. They claim to be making true progress toward the first successful human head transplant.
What Would Happen if Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Get Involved
This breakthrough would bring medical surgery to an entirely new level. If billionaires such as these invested in this surgery, then the technology needed to carry out this surgery can definitely be developed.
This surgery is ambitious to say the least. This call to arms is a great step forward, but the medical equipment available is probably not good enough to make this a successful surgery just yet. There’s probably a lot more research and development that needs to go into this, and the world is probably not ready for what comes after this kind of procedure. The patient is getting his entire head replaced, and there’s a lot to be said about the ethical repercussions of this kind of surgery. Word from these billionaires has yet to be heard.
Who would not enjoy as much money as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates have? Everyone would love that honor, and here are seven tech skills that could accomplish this:
#1 UML
Unified Modeling Language (UML) can be thought of as a program for constructing complex software designs. This skill could garner you over $101,000.
#2 POWERBUILDER
We come to another software development tool, and this one is intended to develop Windows apps. PowerBuilder is a little older than other tools, but it could get you, at least, $102,000.
#3 SILVERLIGHT
Silverlight is basically Microsoft’s version of Adobe Flash, and is another skill that could make you Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg Jr! Unfortunately, the company has made no bones about the fact that Silverlight is limited. It could still get you over $103,000, but if you do not have the skills now it might be too late.
#4 CISSP
Now, we move to a very important aspect to computing, computer security. This is not an easy process, and if you can garner the skills for it then Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg could become jealous of you!
#5 CLOJURE
This next money-making tech skill is an old programming language. Well, it is, at least, a modern version of an old programming language. Clojure is a 2007 version of the language known as Lisp and is worth at least $108,000.
#6 PMP CERTIFICATION
A certification that could gain you, at least, $108,000, the PMP is a very high-level document. The only way to achieve this certification is to complete at least 4,500 hours of project management. It does not stop there because once you get it, you have to work hard to keep it.
#7 PEOPLESOFT
The best tech skill to have to achieve the status of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg is PeopleSoft. The demand for IT’s who can manage these apps is high, and could give you, at least, $110,000.
The Facebook Free Basics initiative has received a lot of attention with it’s controversial intentions. Mark Zuckerberg has stepped up to the plate to give the public a new pitch concerning Facebook Free Basics, telling the whole world that net neutrality must be protected.
Facebook Free Basics Gives People Free Education, Health, and Employment Services
Thanks to this new platform, a lot of people will be getting many education services, health care and employment listings from a series of apps, free of charge. These applications are specifically designed for the Free Basics initiative and can work even on phones without data plans.
This Program Doesn’t Allow Access to YouTube, Gmail, Google or Twitter
One of the most important details about this system is that it excludes other platforms that have become the go-to for many. Gmail has over 900 million users all over the world. YouTube gets hundreds of millions of hits every day. Twitter, though smaller, still circulates the data of over 300 million users. Why doesn’t Facebook Free Basics support these platforms?
It’s likely because they don’t stand for the same kind of net neutrality that Zuckerberg is endorsing. The Facebook CEO appeared on a video this week to promote Free Basics in person, even going as far as writing an appeal on a major newspaper. Zuckerberg is specifically aiming for a free internet for India, the second most disconnected country in the world.
Facebook Endorses Internet Equality
Mark Zuckerberg went on to explain that Facebook is not looking for profit from this project. Critics have slammed Free Basics for accepting a few services for free but rejecting other. This has caused the program to be suspended in India.
Zuckerberg: Connectivity is A Human Right
So the CEO has taken to Indian newspapers to respond. His article, titled ‘Free Basics Protects Net Neutrality’ declares the service as a bridge to gap the internet with equality. This article isn’t alone, either. It is accompanied by advertisements and video. The reaction from India is yet to be seen. The same can also be said for Google, Twitter and YouTube, who have not stated a firm position in the debate of net neutrality.
Mark Zuckerberg took to his Facebook page to add his two cents on the recent uproar against Muslims in the US, saying that he supports all Muslims in America and around the world. The Facebook CEO has declared that the social media is a platform for all communities, and as such, there is Facebook for Muslims support as well. This comes at a high time when Donald Trump is severely under fire for claiming he wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the US until terrorist threats are resolved.
Facebook CEO Declares Facebook for Muslims, Facebook for Everyone
Zuckerberg wrote that as leader of Facebook, he wants to tell all Muslims in the community that they are always welcome. Mark Zuckerberg also vowed to protect their rights and create a safe environment for the Muslim community. This was made in response to Donald Trump’s bold claims, but the CEO said that he had made the post in light of the Paris attacks and all the hate that had been pointed in the direction of the Muslim community this past week.
Zuckerberg confessed that he can only imagine the kind of suffering and segregation the Muslim community is suffering for the actions of those who do not represent them. Truly enough, the treatment Donald Trump is talking about to the press is analogous to the late 1930’s in Germany. As a Jewish American, Mark Zuckerberg stated he will defend any attack on any community, and as such, he declared that not only is Facebook for Muslims, but it is a platform for everyone.
Trump Wants to Shut Down the Internet to Fight Terrorists
Donald Trump has become a political buffoon dangerously quickly, even suggesting that the Internet be closed up in some way to fight terrorism. Certainly not a true believe in freedom of speech though he’s quite loose in his own. He continues to claim that ISIS is recruiting people over the internet, taking Muslims in America and then sending them back. Living with this logic must be truly difficult. Donald Trump makes it incredibly evident that having a lot of money doesn’t equal much in terms of brains.
In a recent Facebook Q&A, Mark Zuckerberg expressed his desires to develop an AI that is better than humans at using the five primary senses. Could it be that his ultimate goal is to develop artificial intelligence that surpasses human intelligence?
The Five Senses of Facebook’s Future AI
Mark Zuckerberg expressed that Facebook’s goal is to bring an AI that can recognize anything that’s in an image or a video, understand and relay information about it. They’re hoping to develop artificial intelligence that an translate speech to text and vice versa, so it can answer any natural language question it’s asked.
Facebook’s AI has already given the company some trouble, with concerns about the AI being able to recognize users that don’t even belong to the social network via Facebook’s DeepFace facial recognition platform.
Facebook Buys Oculus and Develops AI, What’s Next?
Mark Zuckerberg added that Facebook is developing VR because it’s set to be the next major breakthrough in technology after smartphones, and by acquiring Oculus, Mark Zuckerberg hopes to bring the day that phones are in our pockets and smart glasses on or heads to enable us to see virtual structures, and virtual reality is bound to bring about new ways to live that aren’t possible at the moment.
As one of the founders of the Breakthrough Prize foundation in Sciences, Mark Zuckerberg awarded a group of young scientists the New Horizons Prize in Mathematics. This was due to their hard work and dedication in discoveries about the universe, life, and the mind, named after the most far reaching probe in history, the New Horizons Space Probe.
One of the prizes, the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, is a $3 million grant, and it was presented to Ian Agol from the University of California at Berkeley and Institute for Advanced Study on November 8. The meaning of this award is to recognize young people that open up new ways of understanding humanity in the life sciences.
The board, of which Priscilla Chan is also a member, awarded five New Horizons prizes in addition. These are $100,000 grants that recognizes young scientists, physicists and mathematicians. The recipients for the New Horizons Prize in Physics were B. Andrei Bernevig, Liang Fu, Xiao-Liant Qi, Raphael Flauger, Leonardo Senatore and Yuji Tachikawa. The awardees for the New Horizons Prize in Mathematics were Larry Guth and André Arroja Neves.
Members of the Breakthrough Prize board expressed their excitement and the importance of every scientific achievement, as it is our duty as a community to support it.
The ceremony was produced and directed by Don Mischer Productions and broadcast live on National Geogrphic Channel, and it will air once more on FOX on November 29.
So imagine you’re re-watching The Social Network, trying to jump on the bandwagon and like Zuckerberg’s snobby, reactionary computer-elitist-sellout-hacker-stand-in. Suddenly, you realize that the only reason you have for really detracting your fandom from the guy, i.e., that he became one of the biggest corporate entities, commodifying every facet of subjective and social experience for the profit of any high-bidding corporation, that maybe somewhere about thirty minutes into the movie, he should have just decided to stick with hacking. How far would he have gone?
Perhaps as far as seventeen-year-old Julius Kivimaki, who was recently found guilty of 50,700 “instances of aggravated computer break-ins.” Now we’re talking. Official court documents state that Kivimaki’s hacker attacks affected Harvard University, MIT, and many others. The attacks involved hijacking emails, jamming up traffic to websites, and the pilfering of credit card information.
JUSTICE TO BE SERVED for the teenage hacker
Most awesomely for himself, the teenage hacker Kivimaki is not in jail. Yes. Instead of prison or any comparable hard time done, this young one isn’t worth the effort, says the District Court of Espoo, who sentenced the boy–whose online moniker is Zeekill–to a two-year suspended prison sentence.
The District Court of Espoo also confiscated his PC, and court ordered him to give back €6,588 ($7,282) worth of property he’d taken throughout his crime run from the law. A Judge Wilhelm Norrmann mentioned in the proceedings that Kivimaki was actually only 15 and 16 years old when he committed the crimes, back in 2012 and 2013.
“[The verdict] took into account the young age of the defendant at the time, his capacity to understand the harmfulness of the crimes, and the fact that he had been imprisoned for about a month during the pre-trial investigation,” said a statement from the court. Ignorance, it seems, is legal bliss.
SOME DESIRE MORE PUNISHMENT
However there’s one consultant of Europol on cybercrime who was very concerned about the [lack of] sentence. “Whilst [really?] I’m sure the courts concerned all the circumstances surrounding the conviction and the sentence that was warranted, there is a question as to whether such sentences will act as a deterrent to other hackers…It is not necessarily the place of the courts to factor in deterrence in their sentences…[h]owever, if I were another hacking group, was not that bothered about just having something on my record, and saw someone attract a suspended sentence for over 50,000 hacks, some of which caused significant damage, I don’t think it would cause me much concern.” His name (the consultant’s) is Alan Woodward.
WHAT PRECISELY KIVIMAKI DID
He infiltrated more than 50,000 computer servers by exploiting their vulnerabilities in a specific software program each operating system used, called “ColdFusion.” Insodoing, Kivimaki was able to install “backdoors” into tens of thousands of computers, and this allowed him open-access to their information, in de rigueur of old-school hackers.
YES, BUT ANY REAL DAMAGE?
The prosecutors originally accused the teenage hacker of adding malware to roughly 1,400 servers. They went on to say that he used this proliferation to create a botnet, which he in turn to begin denial of service (DoS) attacks on other systems–a system action which bombards affected computers with internet traffic, swamping them until the term “lagging” doesn’t even begin to limn the state of the screen, one would notice on the receiving end of such an attack.
Kivimaki’s PC’s chat logs reveal that he used the botnet to attack the news site ZDNet and the chat tool Canternet. He was also aiding in the theft of seven gigabytes’ worth of data, which were sent to and from email addresses ending in @mit.edu, i.e. the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies’ system. He used stolen credit card info to make online purchases and shared the info with others, and he was also charged with laundering Bitcoin, which he purportedly used to fund a journey to Mexico…the list goes on. One supposes when it comes to being a digital outlaw, there really are no checkpoints to let you know the order of legally screwed you’re becoming with each passing month and every casual black market deal.
MANY MAYBE SUFFERED
People suffered the loss of abstract property, but what’s interesting is the age of this digital outlaw. We may be catching a glimpse of the future of cyberpunk. Imagine a hidden island of teenage hacker prodigies forming a little abstract nation of their own, holding the powers at be hostage, hacking mainstream media’s sites like NBC, CNN, MTV, producing their own culture…
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Founder and CEO of Facebook wants brain-to-brain thoughts directly transmitted
In a recent Q and A conference with Facebook users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed his vision of the future – one in which people will be able to think something and instantly, directly, have the thought sent to another user of the same platform. The transmission of thoughts through telepathic communication would be achievable over regular Internet satellites like the ones we have today, but problems still have to be resolved before such futuristic and controversial technology can be marketed.
Don’t hold your breath for the release of telepathic internet communications, though
Fear not, folks. Such technology, which is sure to baffle a number of people, cause scary privacy concerns to users (imagine having your thoughts hacked into), and make luddites’ heads explode worldwide, is years and years away for a number of reasons. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tinder, and almost any other imaginable form of non-telepathic social networking available today will have to sate your appetite for social media for a while.
So, what’s preventing telepathic communication from being viable today?
Foremost, we would require a device that would somehow plug in to a person’s brain and be able to both send and receive electrical signals. Basically, neurons communicate using neurotransmitters, which are a form of chemical signal. Whenever neurons receive these chemical signals, they give off little jolts of electric energy. Believe it or not, millions and millions of these neurotransmitters are needed for even our more basic actions, which results in millions and millions of bursts of electricity being sent and received by neurons. Capturing these electric bursts is currently impossible, since we simply don’t have the hardware to do it. Then there’s the question of how to plug in to someone’s brain; do you use a brain implant? Is surgery needed? Well, there’s a few devices being worked on today that would make that unnecessary.
What kind of mind-reading gear is being developed as we speak?
Currently, researchers are working on telepathic communication using the revolutionary principle of TMS, short for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. By generating a magnetic field over a person’s brain, neural pathways within can be activated, allowing users from India to “beam” thoughts to others in France in a recent test. However, the system is very rudimentary, and only really let the users send simple words like “hola” and “ciao” to those on the receiving end. The U.S. Army is also developing a sort of telepathic helmet that could synopsize and simplify the necessary electrical impulses, for more efficient transmission. But telepathic communication technology is years away, thankfully, to those of us who feel like online social media has already sort of gotten out of hand.
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In order to help treat post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers, an engineering student from the University of Pittsburgh has used an Oculus virtual reality headset to simulate environments. The researcher, Jennifer Patterson, hopes that therapists and doctors will learn more about how virtual reality can help people recover from PTSD.
How can virtual reality systems be used to treat PTSD?
Patterson’s research involves using software that creates virtual environments. For example, if a soldier is afraid of certain settings like a road in the desert or a city with Middle Eastern architecture, the headset can simulate those places. Hopefully, after some virtual time in synthetic environments, the soldier will stop avoiding similar ones in real life.
What other medical uses have been found for virtual reality headsets?
This is not the first use of virtual reality in medical treatment. In the past, researchers have used the Oculus headset in treatments and studies ranging from the treatment of glaucoma to easing pain in burn victims. One of the main advantages to the Oculus system is its affordability. Unlike medical headsets and simulators ranging from $30,000 to $300,000 in price, the Oculus headset is available for developers from $350 to $400. The medical headsets are still needed in certain studies due to their ability to accurately detect sensitive movements and be mounted on other places than a patient’s head. Yet, the Oculus Rift and other cheaper virtual reality headsets are still quickly taking the place of the more expensive medical units.
What does the future hold for virtual reality headsets?
Facebook has purchased Oculus for $2 billion last year in anticipation of the rise of virtual reality. Mark Zuckerberg thinks virtual reality is the next major computing platform, and he’s taking steps to ensure that. His company plans to make the headsets available in 2016, but developers have had access to prototypes since 2013 in order to stimulate app creation. In fact over, 100,000 headsets have already been distributed to developers. Other tech companies, such as Sony, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, Google, and HTC are seeking to get in on the market. Some, like Sony’s system, will be solely for video games. Others, like the Oculus Rift, allow scientists and developers to make their own software. Future studies will pit headsets from different companies against each other and see how well they can aid research and recovery.
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