Author Samantha Atkins

a software architect and long term participant is several transhumanist and futurist groups. Samantha is especially focused on envisioning the future we wish to inhabit and on what it will take to manifest this future, especially in the critical nexus of the next few decades. Much of Samantha’s professional work is in the area of persistent and distributed systems. She has an avid interest in Artificial Intelligence, Longevity, and Intelligence Augmentation.

Samantha runs a transhumanist group in Second Life with weekly meetings on current technological trends and research in biotech, energy, computation, NBIC generally, economics and other current situation indicators and what can be done to move us toward the future we desire. Samantha is a budding entrepreneur bootstrapping a startup to make people effectively smarter.