Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles E. Kettering 1876-1958

Researchers at Stanford University recently reported that they have discovered a hormone that sharply reduces the desire to eat. Johnson & Johnson which sponsored the study has rights to the discovery. New York Times

Ray Kurzweil's scenario of billions of nanorobots positioned in our brains, to create full-immersion virtual reality, will be feasible in the future, says Robert A. Freitas, Jr., author of Nanomedicine and other works. He believes the achievement will require noninvasive neuroelectric monitoring, neural macrosensing (nanorobots eavesdropping on the body's sensory traffic.) The Singularity Is Near ranked in top selling science and tech books in 2005. After an extended run as #1 on the Amazon.com science, technology, and philosophy lists since its publication. Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology ends 2005 as the fourth best-selling science book in 2005, even though published late in the year (September 26.). Kurzweil.net