via New Scientist & Posthuman Blues

Giant structures stretching more than a billion light years across have been revealed by two new maps of the distribution of galaxies in the universe…

…Both teams were able to identify mathematical patterns in the distribution of galaxies throughout the universe indicating the presence of large structures. “This is one of the first detections of structures that are so large,” Padmanabhan says. “The only other place that they have been detected is in the cosmic microwave background”, the afterglow of the big bang.

via Red Herring

“One expects there to be much more organic connection between people and technology…”

…Today’s devices will disappear. Electronics will instead be embedded in our environment, woven into our clothing, and written directly to our retinas from eyeglasses and contact lenses, predicts inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil. “Devices will no longer be spokes on the Internet—they will be the nodes themselves,” he says.

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