Posted: Mon, May 20, 2013 | By: Franco Cortese
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: Sun, April 28, 2013
Can you write a story in 20 words or less? The idea for such a short short story came from an advert I heard years ago. It used a string of single, almost unconnected, words to create an image and narrative in the mind of the listener. Subsequently I have…
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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
Posted: Fri, May 10, 2013 | By: Franco Cortese
Artifacts, Artifictions, Artifutures 0.4In the final part of this installment, I will analyze a few more mainstream music videos with future-friendly memes and motifs, this time looking at videos mostly from 2010. In the last two installments, I argued that the increasing prominence of future-friendly memes and motifs as well… Continue Reading
Posted: Thu, May 09, 2013 | By: J. N. Nielsen
In my post Mind and Civilization: A Developmental Perspective,I considered how the embodiment of minds in organisms that experience a natural history shapes the minds in question, and how, in turn, civilization is shaped by minds shaped by natural history, so that, both directly and transitively, civilization is shaped by… Continue Reading
Posted: Wed, May 08, 2013 | By: Joern Pallensen
The few books I read tend to circle around values. Two such books, among the very best I’ve ever read, are Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the art of motorcycle maintanance, and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.Just yesterday, I finished reading Zoltan Istvan’s The Transhumanist Wager, and I emphatically tell you: This… Continue Reading
Posted: Tue, May 07, 2013 | By: Extropia DaSilva
One question that I have seen repeatedly asked is: When did the transhuman era begin; indeed, has it begun or is it an event that is yet to occur? One can find arguments both for and against it being an event we are in the midst of. Those who argue… Continue Reading
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