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April 14, 2011
Civilization Documentaries Funny Superhuman Technology Videos — Tags biotechnology colbert report future interview prophecy singularity Leave a comment |
RAY KURZWEIL’S technological prophecy for 2049 on colbertReality always excels fiction and our expectations, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy’s estimation —that we will merge ourselves with computers by 2049, making us “billions” of times smarter— is conservative. The mere idea of backing up our own memory (info in our brain) has to be just around the corner. Here’s last night’s interview at The Colbert Report, and below the trailer of his documentary “Transcendent Man” |
SUPERHUMAN: Parkour + olympic gymnastics = beyond physicsThis guy (Damien Walters) is not only performing the most amazing moves you will see this year, it looks like he doesn’t repeat one twice! [Via Neatorama] |
SUPERHUMAN: Flutebox[Thanks Seba] |
SUPERHUMAN: Japanese Pro Wrestling makes American Wrestling and Mexican Lucha Libre look irrelevantThey win in style points, danger points and fake points: [Via Neatorama] |
SUPERHUMAN: 4 DJs, 4 tables, sick skillsAnd violins. I will just quote a Youtube commenter: la cremme de la cremme They are French and they’re called Birdy Nam Nam. [Thanks TJ] |
SUPERHUMAN: Routines that scored 10 at gymnasticsCompillation of the most stunning gymnastics from the —long gone— era of 10.0 scores. [Via Inner] |
SUPERHUMAN: Hang DrummerYou only need to know that this instrument is called Hang Drum and that, in appropriate hands, can deliver entire multimelodic songs by itself. Check out the guy’s youtube page for more. And another video after the jump: Continue reading |
SUPERHUMAN: Chinlone or the art of soccer without goalsA 1500 year old sport/dance hybrid from Myanmar, Southeast Asia, where there are no opposing teams or winners and the “goal” is to play the game most beautifully performing moves of amazing foot skills, as complicated as possible, for the longest time. [wiki] There is also a documentary. |
SUPERHUMAN: Robot dance at its best everA japaneese group called u-min performing the best robotic moves the world has ever seen, along with genius slow motion action in real time. It won a post here at minute 2:15. |