Featured Authors:

Alan Brooks

• Remembering the 1950s-60s Futurists: What Went Wrong?

Amon Kalkin

• Toward A Post-Socialist Revolutionary Paradigm: The Zerone
• Say You Want A Revolution?
• When Comes The Hour - Zero State event December 20-21, 2012
• FUTURISM AS POLICY: What should futurists want from political change?

Andrew Wallace

• Building a Star Trek Economy

Armand Vespertine

• Does Enhanced Human Equal Transhuman?

B. J. Murphy

• Capitalism, Socialism & the Scientific Fight Against Cancer
• Quoting our Future: The Past and Present Speak
• H+ Poetry: I Am Not Alone
• H+ Poetry: A Cosmist’s Tale - Part 1 - Opt Not for Death
• H+ Poetry: A Robotic Wet Dream

Ben Goertzel

• Humanity Plus Elections: The Boring Truth (Response to Vlad Frolov)

Boris Karpa

• Soldiers without Banners - Why the Future Doesn’t Need Transhumanists
• Open Letter to Ronald Bailey

Carol Lloyd

• Is Your Autistic Child a Dandelion? Weed or Herb?
• Why I Didn’t Talk to My Children about Sandy Hook—and why it may not have mattered

D.J. MacLennan

• Tapping the Transcendence Drive

David A. Kekich

• Will Castration Extend Your Life?
• 107,000,000,000 - what does this number signify?
• Aging will be Cured Overnight
• 100 Tips for Success (#100 is “purpose of life is to delay, avoid and eventually reverse death)
• What Will Humans Look Like in 2033?

David Eubanks

• It Just Seems Like Forever (From the Auto-Journal™ of Jonny Blake Johnson, 2033)
• An Apology for a Cybernetic Future
• Namespace

David J. Kelley

• Vote for David Kelley in the HumanityPlus Election
• Understanding the Transhumanist Demographic
• Engineering Religion – Using Religion to Accomplish Long Term Success and Insure Singularity
• Foundation selects the first 3 projects based out of the Trans-human Institute and Retreat Facility
• Transhumanist Ideas Need to Evolve for Mainstream Popularity – how can this be accomplished?

David Pearce

• The Biointelligence Explosion
• THE ABOLITIONIST PROJECT - suffering and how to get rid of it
• Humans and Intelligent Machines - Co-Evolution, Fusion or Repla
cement?
• Is Humanity Accelerating Towards… Apocalypse? or Utopia?
• Five Top Reasons Transhumanism Can Eliminate Suffering

David Wood

• “In Our Lifetimes, Human Beings Will No Longer Be Human” claims Lord Anthony Giddens
• Controversies Over Singularitarian Utopianism

DEBATE

• Debate Forum: ROBOT WARRIORS - do we want them?
• DEBATE FORUM - do you want a Singularity via Artificial Intelligence, or Human Bio-Intelligence?
• DEBATE FORUM - let’s bicker about Transhumanism, Politics, Religion, Sex, etc.
• DEBATE Topic - Would you get a black market Brain Implant from a Biohacker for 90% off?
• DEBATE FORUM: Augmentation and Erotica - Do Prosthetic Legs Make Aimee Mullins… Hotter?

Dirk Bruere

• Surviving a Carrington Event and Similar Disasters
• Why Transhumanism Is Not Private Property
• Fear & Loathing in Transhumanism
• The Transhumanist Declaration 2.0
• In Praise of the Borg: “Resistance is futile – you will want to be assimilated!”

Dustin Ashley

• New H+ Poetry

Eric Schulke

• “Alpha Thinkers” are the Transhuman Wave of the Future
• Study Gerontology! This Frontier Provides Hope for the Future
• Our Surroundings are Seemingly Limitlessly Profound
• Indefinite Life Extension: How To Convince Skeptics, Fence-Sitters, and the Uninformed
• We Owe Pursuit of Indefinite Life Extension to Our Ancestors

Extropia DaSilva

• Holy Singularity! - will it be a “Messianic/Idolatrous” or “Ineffable/ Transcendent” Event?
• IT’S ALIVE! How Technology Evolves and What it Means
• What Should Transhumanity regard as it’s Primary Goal?
• Is the “Technological Singularity” Plausible?
• Russian Dolls - A SciFi Story

Feminism

• The Neurobiology Behind All of the Ridiculous Things You Do When You’re in Love
• Shame on India!
• Top 5 Questions About the Female Orgasm Answered

Fiction

• Love’s Not Worth Dying For More than Once (2033 Immortality Fiction Contestant)
• What Happened to the Good Old Days - (2033 Immortality Fiction Contestant)
• One Hundred Years of Immortality (2033 Immortality Fiction Contestant)
• Memory of Death (2033 Immortality Fiction Contestant)

Francesca Ferrando

• Towards A Posthumanist Methodology

Franco Cortese

• H+ Poetry: Ghostensi’ve Counself
• “Immortality Memes”
• The Future Invades the Music Industry
• An Open Letter to Death

Gennady Stolyarov II

• Philosophy Lives – Contra Stephen Hawking
• Six Libertarian Reforms to accelerate Life Extension
• The Movement for Indefinite Life Extension (MILE): The Next Step for Humankind
• In the Face of Universal Surveillance: PRISM and the Litmus Test for Liberty
• The Imposition of Death

Giovanni Santostasi

• Death is Not my Brain’s Friend - I believe in Neurology, not in God
• H+ Poetry: Cybernetic Love Poem

Giulio Prisco

• Science and Spirituality at Global Future 2045
• The REAL Importance of Brain Mapping Research
• Transhumanism, Young Whores and Old Bigots

Gyreck

• Life Extension and the Significance of Death

Hank Pellissier

• Transhumanity.net “Comments” Will Emigrate to Zero State FB
• Liberating Egypt from Female Genital Mutilation
• Nine Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives
• Robots and Slavery - what do humans want when we are “Masters”?

Ian D. Mclean

• Transhumanist Elitism, Privilege and Intersectionality

Ian Linnel

• DIY Nanotechnology – “buckyballs” + olive oil doubles the lifespan of mice
• BioHack Diabolical Plot #1 - Implant “Defiance” via Mass DBS to Topple Authoritarian Regimes

Ilia Stambler

• The Brussels Summit of Longevity Activists
• Demonstration for Radical Life Extension in Tel Aviv
• An Appeal to Help Dr. Steven Coles, a World Leader in Aging Research
• International Longevity Alliance Plans Its Agenda for 2013
• The Longevity Party - Who Needs it?  Who Wants it?

J. N. Nielsen

• Technologies of Life Extension
• Mind and Civilization: Consequences of Transhumanism

James Hutton

• “Self Service” - Towards a New Information-Based Paradigm, and Acceptance of our Multiple Selves
• Explain Yourself (2013 Immortality Fiction Contestant)
• Transhuman “Conversion” in Tajikstan and My New Career - Counseling Augmented H+ Clients in Crises

Jason Xu

• Silicon Valley Transhumanist establishes “Resurrection Groups” 
•  The Unstoppable Longevity Virus
• Desiring Immortality
• TransChristianity - Simulating the Hyperreal Kingdom of Heaven
• The Lord’s Prayer – Omega Point version

Joern Pallensen

• Did the Universe Evolve the “Blue Brain Project” to Become Aware of Itself ?
• Vegetarians Live Longer, Happier Lives…?
• Veganism Is The Future
• Turkey, a Secular state..  FEMEN, Atheism, Domestic violence…
• Titslamism - Armchair Metaphysics & Topless Jihad

John Niman

• Cyborg Possibilities – The Torso and Skin (Part 2)
• Rise of the Military Robot
• GMOs: The Future Of Food
• Cyborg Possibilities – The Arms and Legs (Part Three)
• Property Law and Outer Space

José Cordeiro

• The Principles of Extropy: A Quarter Century Later
• Technological Convergence and Transhumanism
• From Humanism to Transhumanism

Khannea Suntzu

• Is it Time to call “Capitalism” an Existential Threat?
• Christian Group Says Demon Sex Makes You Gay
• 2113 0.2: Getting Stuck in Progress
• The Succubus Mythology - Engineering a Radical Future Sexy Self
• The Final Disillusion

Lawrence Lessig

• A Time For Silence (Mourning the Death of Aaron Swartz)

Lee-Roy Chetty

• Promoting the Use of Clean Stoves in the Developing World
• The Impact of Mobile Money in Africa
• Africa and the Key Drivers of Change
• The Importance of Social Protection in Africa
• Why Smart Cities are the Future

Leo Igwe

• A Manifesto for a Skeptical Africa
• Paul Kurtz: Tribute from Africa
• Woman Burned Alive in New Guinea Witch Hunt
• In Praise of Atheism
• The Necessity of Humanism in Africa

Lincoln Cannon

• Do I Want to Be a Robot?
• Purpose of the Mormon Transhumanist Association

Ludwig Sandgren

• H+ Poetry: We Are The Gods Now

Manifestos

• Additional Excellent Contestants in “Transhumanism Declaration 2.0 Contest”

Maria Konovalenko

• The Roadmap to Immortality
• The Longevity Party - updated description
• Bill Gates Really Wants to Become Immortal?
• I am an “Aging Fighter” Because Life is the Main Human Right, Demand and Desire
• Why It Is Ethical to Cure the Disease of Aging

Marios Kyriazis

• Cyprus Symposium - “Pathways To Indefinite Lifespans”
• Bio-Philosophical Arguments for Human Biological Immortality
• Evolutionary Replicators in the Global Brain
• The Global Brain and its Role in Human Immortality

Mark McManus

• Do Myostatin Inhibitors Really Increase Muscle Hypertrophy?

Mark Waser

• Dissecting the Scientists’ Call to Ban Autonomous Lethal Robots
• Backward Induction:  Rationality or Inappropriate Reductionism? – Part 2
• The “Wicked Problem” of Existential Risk with AI (Artificial Intelligence)
• Got Risk?  Debating Eliezer Yudkowsky About “AIs that prove changes correct”
• Waser Contra Goertzel Contra Dvorsky on Mind Uploading

Martine Rothblatt

• Why Cyberconsciousness Won’t Take Aeons to Evolve
• Won’t Mindclones Only Be for the Rich and Famous?
• What is Techno-Immortality?
• What Are Mindfiles?
• Billions of Sexes

Max More

• Superlongevity Without Overpopulation

Memes

• Longevity Meme Contest - WINNERS!
• Immortality Memes
• “TransChristian” Immortality Memes + Overly-Attached Girlfriend
• Italian Immortality/Transhumanist Memes

Michael Lee

• Russia’s Future - Grumpy Petro-Giant Armed-to-the-Teeth with Social Unrest
• Unmasking North Korea’s Future
• Too Big to Succeed? Three China Scenarios to 2050
• Demographic Sunset in the Land of the Rising Sun: Japan in the 21st Century
• Thirsty Australia: A Parched View of it’s Long-Term Future

Mike Dodd

• 21st Century Foreign Policy Agenda For Western Nations
• H+ Poetry: You Are The One

Mike Perry

• Deconstructing Deathism - Answering Objections to Immortality

Nanobot Models

• Conceptual Nanomedical Lipofuscin Removal Strategy

Natasha Vita-More

• The Aesthetics of Transhumanism
• Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Skin
• We Are Strong: Only Insofar As We Take Advantage of Our Innate Abilities and Build Smarter Tools
• H+: Bringing Arts/Sciences and Design Into the Discussion of Transhumanism

Nikki Olson

• Oscar Pistorius Now … Elective Amputation in 10 Years?
• How Safely Can You Practice DIY Drugs?
• Researchers, Ahoy! Should Futurist Science Move… Offshore?
• Transhumanism for Children
• 3D Printing Laboratories: The Age of DIY Designer Drugs Begins

Owen Nicholas

• The Top Ten Best Science Fiction Movies
• The Transcension Hypothesis: An Intriguing Answer to the Fermi Paradox?
• Piracetam - is it the smartest of the smart drugs?
• Meditation Boosts the Brain
• Make Me SuperHuman - the Top 10 Enhancements I Crave

P. Tittle

• The Future of Women
• The Humanist View of Animal Rights
• “I’m Too Drunk to Consent to Sex. But Not Too Drunk to Assault You”
• Business Rules the World. Do we want it to?
• Making the Outside Match the Inside

Peter Wicks

POLL

Preston Estep III and Alex Hoekstra

• Advances in Telomere Research and Testing

Pubali R. Chaudhuri

• She [Nirbhaya, the New Delhi Rape Victim] is Dead. But Can We Be Said to Live?
• The Empire Within: India’s Imperialist Misogyny
• Proposed Manifesto for Indian Parents (for gender equality)
• “India’s Forced Marriages are Institutionalized Rape”
• Being Female in India: A Hate Story

QUIZ

• Celebrity Transhumanist Gossip Quiz
• Answers to Celebrity Transhumanist Gossip Quiz #1

Rüdiger Koch

• Bitcoin - a Means for Redistribution of Wealth
• Liberty Reserve, Managed Democracy and what it means for H+ Technologies
• ZeroState Fund - Enabling Practical Transhumanism

Rachel Armstrong

• Greener cities. V7
• Bacteria “R” Us
• Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature
• “Matter Not Only Has Rhythm, It Sings and Dances” - Particle Physics and Culture
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Complexity

Rachel Haywire

• Rachel Haywire Interview: Extreme Futurist Festival 2012
• Extreme Futurist Festival Pre-Party in San Francisco, November 30
• freedom to infinity (poem)
• Why I Am Running for the Humanity+ Board of Directors
• Extreming The Future

Reason

• We Already Live in a Gerontocracy
• Arguing by Induction for an Absence of Boredom in an Ageless, Greatly Extended Healthy Life
• On Costs and Opportunity Costs of Aging
• Mitochondrially Targeted Antioxidant SS-31 Reverses Some Measures of Aging in Muscle

Reeve Armstrong

• Where Are the T-Shirts?
• Get Him Away From Death
• Utilitarianism is immoral and inconsistent with transhumanism
• The Illusion of Progress - are we truly accelerating, or heading towards extinction?
• Politics Poisons Everything - transhumanism should avoid “ideological baggage” for it’s own survival

Rene Milan

• Be Here Now!
• Who’s Your Daddy Now ?

Reno Tibke

• Human Brain Mapping & Simulation Projects: America Wants Some, Too?
• Machine Morality: a Survey of Thought and a Hint of Harbinger

Rich Lee

• Want to Biohack your Brain? – $50,000 Cranial Surgery Equipment costs only $10 via DIY Black Market
• Sexy Time, Grinder Style - penile subincision, semen flavoring, genital implants, etc.
• “If Eternal Life Becomes a Medical Possibility, I Will Have It Because I am a Tech Pirate”
• DIY & Grinding: Get In Here! - Transhumanism is a Verb, not a Club

Samantha Atkins

• Species Crunch Time – A Possible Means of Resolution
• To Have ALL, Give ALL to All
• We have always been “Transhumanists” - Yearning for Transcendence

Scott Jackisch

• Some Will Be Living Forever (2033 Immortality Fiction Contestant)
• Health Extension Salon #5 at Y Combinator, in Silicon Valley
• Tough Times for Young People Today - will their prospects improve in the Future?
• Aquaponic Cyber Farms and Ending Scarcity (XFF - Douglas Mallette)
• Writing to Create a “Good Future”

Simon de Croft

• Empathy, Mirror Neurons, and the Empathy Pathology

Singularity Utopia

• The Singularity Institute and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
• Help Aaron Winborn Live Forever via Cryonics
• Arguments Against Mind-Uploading
• Ray Kurzweil’s Anti-Utopian Views

Special Guest

• India and The Singularity – Biotech, IT, and DIY-Attitude
• Life Extension and American Politics
• C. S. Lewis Denounced Transhumanism in 1945 - THE SCIENTISTS TAKE OVER!
• Getting a Vaginal Widening Surgery
• Digital Nootropics

Staff

• Debate Forum: What Can - or Should - Be Done about “Nazi Transhumanists” ?
• The Center for Transhumanity
• The Consensus – A TechnoProgressive Political Party

Stephan Kinsella

• Patent Trolls as Mafioso (and that’s a compliment)
• Ideas Are Free: The Case Against Intellectual Property

Teresa Belcher

• Top Ten Anti-Aging Supplements
• Anti-Aging Exercise, Diet and Lifestyle Tips
• Nanomedicine - an Introductory Explanation
• Keep Your Brain Young!—tips on maintaining healthy cognitive function
• Extending Life Expectancy

Terra Bosart

• Physiques of the Future - Custom Bodies and Multiple Selves
• Transhuman Simultaneous Hermaphroditism: why it is a goal for some, and how it might eventually work
• “Borg” is Derogatory - transhumanists need to avoid this association
• The Final Guard: are we the Big Brother we were taught to fear?

Tim Gross (Setai)

• The Singularity is the Cosmic Reflection of the Big Bang
• WE Will be the Artilects - Cultural Singularity by 2020, driven by Augmented Reality

TJL-2080

• Autism: Disease or The New Normal?
• “Singular” Chapter 1

Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Intersection of Anarchism and Fiction
• Personal and Political in The Dispossessed
• The Dispossessed (Book Review by “The Instant Librarian”)

Valkyrie Ice

• Kara & The Lesson Of Adam
• I am a Succubus and a Neon Jackal - my avatars at Second Life
• Freedom of Information Will Change the World
• A Cassandra Moment – is Aaron Swartz the Martyr of a New Revolution?
• Virtual Reality today - not “Matrix level” but far more versatile and useful

Zeev Kirsch

• Transhumanism and Money
• Transhumanism’s Schism – are we motivated by Greed or Humanism?
• Asteroid Mining? - the Wrong & Right Reasons to Invest in this Critical Enterprise
• Why Isn’t USA Power… Electric?  - it’s because of environmentalism and price controls, stupid
• Asteroid Scare!  Can We Dodge the Next Space Rock?