Popular media often tends to present a larger than life picture of the brain and tends to mystify the subject by use of excessive hyperbole. The complexity of the brain is used as a bad excuse to justify this mystification. A complex real-world system may look intimidating and incomprehensible only in its details, but could …...
This archive file was compiled from audio of a discussion futurist FM 2030 held at the University of California, February 6th, 1994. In this discussion 2030 laid out an overview of his ‘transhuman’ philosophy and held a back and forth with other people present in the discussion. Discussion and debate included items such as the …...
I have worked a number of years in trauma and emergency medicine, and have learned a few lessons about human nature along the way that I think may be of benefit to others. Our tendency as human beings to carry around an Optimism Bias is probably one of our most deadly traits. The Optimism Bias …...
The American, Mathew Nagel, was one of the first people to receive electrodes implanted in his brain, for the purpose of control external devices. The young man was just 24 years old when he got this neural prosthesis, in the context of a clinical trial. The implanted prosthesis was developed by the company Cyberkinetics (Clausen …...
Set in the hot, Tuscany-like rolling hills of Comfort, Texas, northwest of San Antonio, is a project that is one of sciences’ best kept secrets, although it really isn’t a secret. On a 646 acre property, formerly known as the Bildarth Estate, lays the hopes and dreams of the creators of Timeship. Timeship has been …...
Mind uploading or whole brain emulation (sometimes called mind transfer) is the hypothetical process of scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device. The computer would have to run a simulation model so faithful to the original that it would behave in essentially …...
While society at large considers the notion of “human enhancement” generally with human genetic engineering, the term usually refers to the “general applications of the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science to improve human performance” (p., 113). Since the 1990’s there has been growing advocacy particularly in the academic fields, but more …...
Imagine a scenario where a massive solar flare knocks out our internet and all other modes of modern technological communication. Imagine a rogue government or terrorist organisation developing or acquiring a hi-tech weapon that disables or shuts down or hijacks the internet and all other means of modern communication. Whether these sound like scenarios out …...
Will Work For Free is a documentary by Sam Vallely on the subject of technological unemployment. Facebook Page for Documentary: https://www.facebook.com/willworkforfree For more information Resource-Based Economy (RBE): http://www.thevenusproject.com/...
The second international Global Future 2045 congress will take place on 15-16 June 2013 at the Lincoln Center in New York, and will be focused on discussion of a new evolutionary strategy for humanity aimed at overcoming the 21st century’s civilization challenges. The strategy is based on carrying out two revolutions: spiritual and sci-tech. Here is proceedings from same…....
