This future day conference is a way of focusing and celebrating the energy that more and more people around the world are directing toward creating a radically better future. Venue of Conference: Online (Click here to join ) or (YouTube Broadcast link)...
Every human being has both a minimum and a maximum amount of life hours left to live. If you add together the possible maximum life hours of every living person on the planet, you arrive at a special number: the optimum amount of time for our species to evolve, find happiness, and become the most …...
What is the Brain Computer Interface? Brainwave Computing is the direct interaction with a computing device or system from the brain, bypassing mediums of touch or voice, where the user instructs programmes or machines by thought. Brainwave computing is alternatively referred to as anyone of the following and more, at this point in time: Primarily …...
Needs will almost always come before wants. When it comes to Transhumanism, the ability to differentiate the two tends to blur, because a need could also be a want, depending on the various methods of achieving a need. There’s the “getting by” need, and then there’s the “thriving” need. For the handicapped, this dichotomy determines …...
In the first half of 2013, The Rise of New Productive Communes: A Reality by the Year 2050, a foresight article, was shared on the Visioning 2050 blog . I had shared the foresight of self-sufficient, self-contained and sustainable communes emerging, that would cause no detriment to the environment, but rather help in mitigating the damage humanity …...
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 …...
The American futurist Ray Kurzweil has written a book entitled “The Singularity is near: when humans transcend biology”, published in 2005. In this book he deals inter alia with the topic brain-machine interface. Kurzweil refers to Tomaso Poggio´s, James DiCarlos (both MIT) and Christof Koch´s (California Institute of Technology) attempts to develop a model which …...
