Death is not a topic that anyone likes to think about, and that is just as true of advocates for longevity science as anyone else. We have to recognize, however, that the future of greatly extended healthy lives, produced by technologies, regenerative medicine, and medical nanotechnology, will not arrive soon enough to benefit everyone but …...
Introduction As a consequence of the rapid growth of technological innovations the world has seen the emergence of discursive fields like transhumanism and/or posthumanism. The origin of these discursive practices can be traced back to the Renaissance humanism and the Enlightenment project envisioning a teleological progress of human civilization, though it is customary to regard …...
Transhuman or transhuman is an intermediary form between human and posthuman.In other words, a transhuman is a being that resembles a human in most respects but who has powers and abilities beyond those of standard humans. These abilities might include improved intelligence, awareness, strength, or durability. Transhumans sometimes appear in science-fiction as cyborgs or genetically-enhanced …...
What would you see and experience if the clocks rolled forward 50 years? In a unique blend of drama and science, this three-part series shows you the world of tomorrow. Will we have flying cars? Will advances in medicine help us stay young forever? What about “printing” custom-made vital organs? What will our cities look …...
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 …...
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 …...
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 …...
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…....
