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Michael_Anissimov
Michael_Anissimov posted a blog entry
CNN Casually Mentions Human Enhancement in a Positive Light
From the “Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2009″ on CNN.com:3. Gene therapy cures color blindnessModern science...
9 days ago Accelerating Future | Topics: transhumanism
 
c4chaos
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Imagining the Tenth Dimension: The Very Model of a Singularitarian ~http://bit.ly/5MOeUt #transhumanism #singularitarian
 
Michael_Anissimov
Michael_Anissimov posted a blog entry
Hit and Run: “We can all agree that Ron Bailey defecates better transhumanism coverage than I can ever hope to produce”
Coverage of the recent H+ Summit is available at Reason’s Hit and Run blog. Here is a funny bit:Futurist John Smart is...
10 days ago Accelerating Future | Topics: transhumanism
 
bruceeisner
bruceeisner posted a blog entry
Timothy Leary Documentary on BBC (2000) -- Timothy Leary Video Archive
Links for this Post: Timothy Leary Video Archive and the video embedded above. I discovered an collection of Timothy Leary...
 
Greg
Greg posted a blog entry
looking for a.i., one cortex at a time…
Recently, researchers at IBM used a supercomputer to map the cortex of a cat’s brain in high enough detail to run a...
 
<em>barrymahfood</em>
barrymahfood posted a blog entry
Implanted Chips - Be the first kid on your block to have one!
ComputerWorld - 11.19.2009 (by Sharon Gaudin)Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial phones and change TV channels.By...
 
Greg
Greg posted a blog entry
the skeptic’s guide to the singularity
Whenever I write about Ray Kurzweil and the imminent paradigm shifts in technology and human evolution he predicts will happen...
 
jeremy.lyon35
jeremy.lyon35 posted a blog entry
IBM brain simulations reach cat equivalency
You can’t so much as turn sideways without stumbling over this story, especially in the transhumanist and Singularitarian...
28 days ago Futurismic | Topics: Blog, artificial..., cat, cortex
 
<em>barrymahfood</em>
barrymahfood posted a blog entry
Closer to figuring out consciousness
NewScientist - 11.12.2009 by Anil AnanthaswamyA telltale signature of consciousness has been detected that takes us a step...
 
Michael_Anissimov
Michael_Anissimov posted a blog entry
6 Insane Laws We’ll Need in the Future at Cracked.com
Transhumanist issues are obscenely mainstream nowadays, who even cares. We’re not even edgy anymore. The excitement is...
37 days ago Accelerating Future | Topics: transhumanism
 
PeggyK
PeggyK posted a blog entry
Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar
The Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies (IEET) will be hosting a seminar on the "Biopolitics of Popular...
 
PeggyK
PeggyK posted a blog entry
Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar
The Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies (IEET) will be hosting a seminar on the "Biopolitics of Popular...
 
Jeremy Clarke
Jeremy Clarke posted a tweet
I don't think it's a coincidence that I was way more into Transhumanism when I had to ride the bus for > 2 hours every day. #iworkathome
 
Michael_Anissimov
Michael_Anissimov posted a blog entry
Is the Dalai Lama a Transhumanist?
Decide for yourself… on 17 December 2007 the Dalai Lama was asked a particular question by David Orban: “”How...
41 days ago Accelerating Future | Topics: transhumanism, videos
 
jeremy.lyon35
jeremy.lyon35 posted a blog entry
Transhuman equality? Athletes with a prosthesis do not have an unfair advantage
Remember all the fuss last year about Oscar ‘Bladerunner’ Pistorius, the amputee athlete who was banned from...
42 days ago Futurismic | Topics: Blog, athletics, competition, prosthetics
 
jeremy.lyon35
jeremy.lyon35 posted a blog entry
NEW FICTION: SPIDER’S MOON by Lavie Tidhar
There were Weathermen on the islands, too, Melkior knew – though Melkior, born on the ship, had only once visited the home...
45 days ago Futurismic | Topics: Fiction, AI, artificial..., colonisation
 
<em>barrymahfood</em>
barrymahfood posted a blog entry
Are you awake or asleep?
New Scientist - 10/7/09 (by by Laura Spinney)EARLIER this year, a puzzling report appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine. It...