The hottest news about Google’s Project Glass is that the head-mounted device will carry inbuilt technology. This technology will allow users to hear audio without the need for headphones or speakers from the device, simply through the device’s contact with the head. Sound, directly to the skull. This means, with the use of the device …...
Transhumanism is a movement that aims to change humankind by using technical means. This change is intended be a change for the better. So transhumanism includes human enhancement, but that is not enough. Human nature, as we know it today, shall be overcome through technology. In a nutshell: Transhumanism aims at transcending the human towards …...
It is great to announce worldwide that India Future Society is now an officially registered Non-Profit Organization recognized by the Indian Government! It would not have been possible without the dedicated effort of our Founders, Great Team, Advisory Board Members, Authors and all other supporters. Thanks to all the involved! India Future Society is a unique organization …...
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 …...
