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Robot rights: Transhumanism on the March

“Robots and machines are now classed as inanimate objects without rights or duties but if artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous, the report argues, there may be calls for humans’ rights to be...

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Online magazine Jim Baen’s Universe teams with award-winning H+ podcast The...

The Future and You is an award-winning podcast about the future which you may download for free. Each episode contains several interviews with authors, scientists, celebrities and innovators about what...

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My reply to WJ Smith’s “Give Me That New Transhumanist Religion”

Dear Wesley, I wish to thank you for quoting me, but also wish to reply to your comments which may give, I fear, a distorted view of what I try to say. I have the highest respect for religion as search...

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Top Canadian science-fiction writers and futurists on transhumanism

Some interesting excerpts: Given the rate of change during the past 40 years, ventures into space and computer-dependent immortality shouldn’t come as a shock, said Robert Sawyer, a futurist and...

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Mercatornet: Ashley X and transhumanism

It’s significant that Ashley’s parents quoted comments on their daughter by the transhumanist writer George Dvorsky: “she will retain more dignity in a body that is healthier, more of a comfort to her,...

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New WTA Board of Directors

The WTA Board of Directors page has been updated with the name of the two new Board members elected for the period 2007-2009: Anne Corwin and PJ Manney. Congratulations to Anne and Patricia, and I look...

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Giulio Prisco at the University of Lausanne

WTA Executive Director Giulio Prisco gave a seminar and participated in a public debate on transhumanism at the University of Lausanne on January 24, 2007, with an audience of about 300 people. Report,...

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1st International Summit of the Planetary Collegium

The first International Planetary Collegium Summit will be held in Montreal from April 19 to 22, 2007, on the premises of University of Quebec in Montreal’s Coeur des Sciences. The Planetary Collegium...

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Report on the 3rd Israeli Transhumanist Seminar

Dr. Frida Fuchs Simonstein, bio-ethicist from Emek Izreel college, gave a fantastic presentation on Indefinite Life Prolongation: the scientific ways toward it – telomerase, embryonic and adult stem...

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FTA opens a Transhumanist Library

The Finnish Transhumanist Association, having realized that transhumanist-themed books are somewhat poorly available in Finland, has opened up a library focusing specifically on transhumanist...

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Ray Kurzweil wins 2007 H.G. Wells Award for Outstanding Contributions to...

Inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil has been awarded the 2007 H.G. Wells Award for Outstanding Contributions to Transhumanism, in recognition of his numerous achievements...

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Natasha Vita-More interviewed by the New York Times

Natasha Vita-More was interviewed by Cintra Wilson of the New York Times about the future, “Natasha Vita-More, the first female Transhumanist philosopher, has been pondering such questions for some...

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Bostrom and Pearce interviewed by Cronopis

ANDRÉS LOMEÑA: Transhumanism, or human enhancement, suggests the use of new technologies to improve mental and physical abilities, discarding some aspects as stupidity, suffering and so forth. You have...

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Nanofactory or AGI — Which technology could cure humanity’s many problems?

“It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.” Michelangelo Buonarroti There are a number of supposed shifts on the horizon. The...

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Candidates for the Humanity+ Board of Directors Election

Sonia Arrison George Dvorsky Patri Friedman Ben Goertzel Stéphane Gounari Todd Huffman Jonas Lamis Mike LaTorra Sungjoo Ogino Stefan Pernar Mike Treder Arsen Zahray Sonia Arrison Science is advancing...

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