A very interesting article, I just wish whatever ad plugins they have going didn't constantly crash Chrome.
Those disembodied lungs are amazing. And incredibly creepy. The business plan -- patching up donor lungs not approved for transplant (which is most of them) and keeping them alive long enough to find a patient they can save... to the tune of perhaps 2,000 lungs and lives per year. That's pretty amazing. Approved in Canada and awaiting FDA approval as well? That's incredible. I couldn't find a news reports of their first rejuvenated lung, the article doesn't really give much detail on how the procedure went.
Martine, I'm sure YC would want her at their Female Founder's Conference! ;-)
I just finished Virtually Human and would definitely recommend it. It makes a very in depth analysis for why "conscious" computers of the future will eventually want human rights - the same way that certain minority groups fought for equal rights throughout history.
The book seems to argue that the likely future scenario is for humans to replicate themselves in a separate computer entity. So people would have a duplicate robot twin. Very little mention is left to addressing the case of people actually merging with computers (so one entity and not two). I think this case is far more likely.
Those disembodied lungs are amazing. And incredibly creepy. The business plan -- patching up donor lungs not approved for transplant (which is most of them) and keeping them alive long enough to find a patient they can save... to the tune of perhaps 2,000 lungs and lives per year. That's pretty amazing. Approved in Canada and awaiting FDA approval as well? That's incredible. I couldn't find a news reports of their first rejuvenated lung, the article doesn't really give much detail on how the procedure went.
Martine, I'm sure YC would want her at their Female Founder's Conference! ;-)
Some other interesting posts I found;
Martine Rothblatt - The Trans-Everything CEO http://nymag.com/news/features/martine-rothblatt-transgender...
Book Review: Virtually Human by Martine Rothblatt http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/09/09/book-review-virtually-hu...
United Therapeutics Website http://www.unither.com/