BBC Future featured on its website as of 14 June 2013, that a Chilean registered enterprise named Thinker Thing developed software called Emotional Evolutionary Design which can interpret the thoughts of a user, to help 3D print objects imagined by that user, and designed entirely by thought. This comes on the heels of an university …...
One of the biggest challenges we face as transhumanists, is conveying our philosophy to the uninitiated in a manner that is successful and productive. For the purpose of this article, I will be speaking of cryonics and transhumanism in the same context. Cryonics really isn’t a separate idea, but in my view, a tool in …...
18 year old Esha Khare in the United States wins a prize awarded by Intel by inventing a SuperCapacitor that will someday, someday soon that is, will lead to you recharging your Smartphone in 20 seconds or less. And this will be before the Smartphone is rendered obsolete by wearable computers that fulfil the functions …...
If we are going to continue and seek out new evolutionary paths for the human species, lengthening the amount of lifespan for each and everyone of us, is quite a first step to complete, but which also has the potential to accelerate our capabilities and capacities to use technology to transform ourselves. Living a longer, …...
Near the end of May of this year I came into contact with Russell Swanborough, Managing Director of ScIAM (Science of Informational Management), a software company located in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr. Swanborough is also a member of the Lifeboat Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging scientific and technological advancements, while helping humanity survive …...
When asked what the biggest bottleneck for Radical or Indefinite Longevity is, most thinkers say funding. Some say the biggest bottleneck is breakthroughs and others say it’s our way of approaching the problem (i.e. that many are seeking healthy life extension, a.k.a. “aging gracefully”, instead of more comprehensive methods of indefinite life-extension), but the majority …...
“On a day of burial there is no perspective — for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really …...
Dear Friends, The idea was raised to celebrate a special day by the longevity movement – the Longevity Day. Now an excellent opportunity to do this is coming – the 1st of October, the official UN International Day of Older Persons We can make the Longevity Day on that day – the 1st of October this year! We …...
I am a pro-longevity activist, and I would like to tell you about the organization in which I am currently involved and some of the activities we promote and in which anyone can participate to gradually make “Healthy Longevity” both national and international priority! The organization is the International Longevity Alliance (ILA) which promotes the social …...