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Three Technology Breakthroughs You
May Have Missed… (Original article here...)
An old pal cornered your editor over the weekend. He asked:
‘Don’t you feel annoyed that all this news has come out
about tech firms letting government spies in through the back door, just as you
launch your new technology service?‘
We had a simple answer, ‘No‘. Why? Governments spy all the
time.
They’ve done it for thousands of years. You could argue that
one of the most famous examples of government spying and treacherous behaviour
appears in the Bible. You’ve heard of Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot and the
Romans, right?
We agree that it’s annoying from a liberty perspective. But
not from a technology investingperspective.
From that point of view, regardless of what immoral and
maniacal governments and politicians get up to, one thing is clear – you’re
living at a time that could deliver one of the biggest technological advances
in history.
That’s something to embrace, not fear…
You’ve doubtless heard of codes and ciphers. These go hand
in hand with spying and have existed almost since humans began to write.
So, while we may abhor governments spying on people, we have
to just acknowledge it and move on.
After all, if our ancestors had given up on technology advancements
due to spying by the Pharaoh’s, the French Kings, or European Emperors, we
would still be rolling around in our own filth.
But fortunately, our ancestors didn’t give up. They pushed
on and got on with trying to improve their lives – despite the best efforts of
governments to hold them back.
And getting on with things is exactly what the world’s top
scientists, researchers, innovators and inventers have done over the past week…
While You Weren’t Watching – a Cure for MS?
While everyone else seemed to focus on the US government and
its corporate patsies, or the latest feuding in the Aussie federal government,
you probably didn’t notice three key scientific breakthroughs:
5 June, The
Independent – ‘Scientists are claiming a breakthrough in the treatment of
multiple sclerosis after an experimental therapy given to a small group of
patients had dramatic results.
‘The therapy involved extracting white blood cells from the
patients which were mixed with proteins and re-infused producing a 50-75 per
cent reduction in the body’s immune response.
‘In multiple sclerosis the immune system attacks the myelin
sheath that surrounds the nerve fibres causing symptoms ranging from numbness
to paralysis.‘
5 June, Science
Daily, – ‘Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, the University of Oxford, NIMR Tanzania
and Retrogenix LTD, have identified how malaria parasites growing inside red
blood cells stick to the sides of blood vessels in severe cases of malaria. The
discovery may advance the development of vaccines or drugs to combat severe
malaria by stopping the parasites attaching to blood vessels.‘
7 June, Latinos
Post – ‘Humanity may not be able to beam someone to and from a planet’s
surface like in Star Trek, but according to a new report in Nature Physics,
we’ve just found out how to perform quantum teleportation reliably – which is
something that, dramatically, the crew of the Enterprise never seems to be
capable of.
‘Researchers working at the Niels Bohr Institute at the
University of Copenhagen have successfully teleported information between two
clouds of gas atoms using a laser. ‘
We noticed them. That’s the type of thing your editor and
our technology analyst (Sam Volkering) look out for every day. And just as
importantly, finding ways to profit from them.
Those are just three breakthroughs. There are many tens,
hundreds if not thousands of revolutionary breakthroughs happening every day.
Most of them stay within the confines of the science world
because the mainstream press is too busy focusing on things that most people
knew anyway – that the government is spying on you.
That’s a shame, because there is so much opportunity out
there…
Twenty Thousand Years of Progress in One Century
As we say, you could just give up on the future and assume
things will get worse. We’ve no intention of doing that. Or you could take a
positive outlook and believe that things will get better.
That’s how our ancestors dealt with adversity. You can look
at the folks who used new technology to flee persecution in
Europe and build a life in the New World.
Or you can look at the Pamphleteers in the 17th, 18th and
19th centuries who used the printing presses to get their message out. Not to
mention the scientists and innovators who heralded the Industrial Revolution.
And now the human race is at another inflection point. One
that could result in more technological advances and more wealth than
all previous advancements combined. As futurist Ray Kurzweil notes:
‘Because of the explosive nature of exponential growth, the
21st Century will be equivalent to twenty thousand years of progress at today’s
rate of progress; about one thousand times greater than the 20th Century.‘
In other words, if you thought the rate of technological
change over the past 40 years was impressive, it’s nothing compared to the
rate of change you, your children and your grandchildren will experience over
the next 87 years.
It will be truly revolutionary.
This is why we believe it’s so important for you to not
stick your head in the sand and keep all your money in cash. Because if you
want any chance to profit from this new revolution, you can only do so by
taking part in it.
Cheers,
Kris
Kris
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