Dr. José Cordeiro is a member of Nasa’s Singularity University and global think-tank The Millennium Project, and one of an increasing number of researchers encouraging everyone from schoolchildren to business leaders to think big – very big – about the future. He said, do you want mental powers of calculation that make the most powerful …...
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 …...
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 …...
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 …...
