Posted: Tue, May 21, 2013 | By: Franco Cortese
2045: Conscious avatars or wishful thinking? A balanced review of the GF2045 Conference in NYC Where: Birkbeck College, Torrington Square WC1E 7HX LONDON (map) ~ The room will be announced nearer to the time of the event When: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Enterance Fee: £4/person…
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Posted: Mon, May 20, 2013
The Future is Not What it Used to Be, with José Luis Cordeiro Where: Birkbeck College, Torrington Square WC1E 7HX LONDON (map) ~ Venue details will be confirmed nearer the timeWhen: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Entrance Fee: £4/person Click here to join! Rapidly changing technology…
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Posted: Sun, May 19, 2013
Radical Abundance with K. Eric Drexler (05.30.13) That’s right - the father of nanotech himself is set to appear at a London Futurists event this month! Where: Roberts Engineering Building, UCL, Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE, London (map)The room will be announced nearer to the time of the eventWhen: Thursday, May…
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Posted: Fri, May 17, 2013
Thinkers like Martin Ford have argued that the only logical response to the trend of increasing automation is a Basic Income Guarantee. In Lights in the Tunnel, Ford presents a persuasive argument. Initially, the increasing automation of both mental and physical labor will create massive unemployment. But once this reaches…
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Posted: Thu, May 23, 2013 | By: Lee-Roy Chetty
Observed temperature increases indicate a greater warming in Africa in recent decades. In addition, rainfall changes exhibit even greater variation in time and space. Variability between years has increased in recent decades with more intense and widespread drought and floods. Medium to high emission scenario climate models project a warming… Continue Reading
Posted: Wed, May 22, 2013 | By: Lincoln Cannon
This is a transcript of my opening presentation at the 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association on April 5 2013, in the Salt Lake City Public Library. The conference room filled beyond capacity this year with around 80 in-person attendees and more participating online via the live video stream.… Continue Reading
Posted: Tue, May 21, 2013 | By: Franco Cortese
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Posted: Mon, May 20, 2013 | By: David J. Kelley
The Foundation has been focused for some time on building a trans-human research facility that would focus on the moral and ethical use of technology to improve the human condition, to help humanity transcend our limitations and help raise the standard of civilization. This is the retreat, a center for… Continue Reading
Posted: Sun, May 19, 2013 | By: Gennady Stolyarov II
Zoltan Istvan’s new novel The Transhumanist Wager has been compared to Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. (See, for instance, Giulio Prisco’s review.) But to what extent are the books alike, and in what respects? To be sure, the story and the writing style are gripping, the characters are vivid, and the… Continue Reading
Posted: Sat, May 18, 2013 | By: Franco Cortese
Artifacts, Artifictions, Artifutures 0.5 It’s not a physical landscape. It’s a term reserved for the new technologies. It’s a landscape in the future. It’s as though you used technology to take you off the ground and go like Alice through the looking glass.John Cage, in reference to his 1939 Imagined… Continue Reading
Posted: Fri, May 17, 2013 | By: José Cordeiro
“Extropy” is celebrating its first quarter of a century. The idea was formally introduced as a philosophy of the future in 1988, and many things have happened from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century. A new millennium has been born and the philosophy… Continue Reading
Posted: Thu, May 16, 2013 | By: Mike Dodd
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Posted: Wed, May 15, 2013 | By: Franco Cortese
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Posted: Mon, May 13, 2013 | By: Rene Milan
The question of religionAll magical pantheons have become aspects of ourselves. We, like the Sun, do not die. Death, like night, is an illusion. Life is now seen as a process of continual growth and humanity is developing a consciousness of the continuity of existence that will eventually dissolve the… Continue Reading
Posted: Sun, May 12, 2013 | By: Gennady Stolyarov II
This essay is an excerpt (Chapters 5 and 6) from the new Second Edition of Mr. Stolyarov’s e-book, The Best Self-Help is Free, which is available for free download in PDF, MOBI, and EPUB formats. The Greatest Problem of the Human Condition The problem with the contemporary view of happiness… Continue Reading
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