# Key Points from the #hplusroadmap IRC Discussions

• Participants shared significant neuroscience visualization resources, including the Brainbow technique for neural connection imaging available at conncad.com/gallery.

• The channel tracked transhumanist movement developments globally, noting a Russian Transhumanist Movement conference livestream and the upcoming first French transhumanist conference scheduled for January 17th in Paris.

• Molecular nanotechnology discussions included references to NASA's work on kinematic cellular automata for self-replication and animations of a Drexler-designed worm drive assembly containing over 25,000 atoms.

• Technical efforts were underway to improve the NanoEngineer-1 software repository by converting it from SVN to Git, with detailed discussions about optimizing repository structure and handling binary data efficiently.

• An innovative governance concept was proposed suggesting that laws should be maintained like software code in source control management systems, potentially allowing independent projects to track and manage a nation's legal code.

• Cognitive enhancement technologies were referenced through a paper on "Mitigating cognitive bottlenecks via an augmented cognition adaptive system," reflecting the channel's interest in human augmentation.

• Discussions about archeal biofilms highlighted interest in extremophile organisms and their unique properties, with participants noting that "anything archeal is automatically cool."