-
+13 +1
We need to talk about transhumanism
This weekend, hundreds of people from across the globe will gather in Madrid to discuss how to turn themselves into a new species. The occasion is TransVision, the world’s biggest annual meet-up of transhumanists — and probably the most important intellectual summit you’ve never heard of. This year, anti-ageing specialist Aubrey de Grey will explain why he thinks most people alive today have a 50/50 chance of living to a thousand years old.
-
-1 +1
Biblical Worldview Frankenstein Weeks 14-16
Biblical Worldview This is a special edition book. I will provide a link on where to find it at the end of this post. Examining everything carefully: hold fast to that which is good. Paul1 Thessalonians 5:21 STOP~READ JAMES 1:5; 3:17 ASKING GOD TO GIVE YOU WISDOM AS YOU EXAMINE FRANKENSTEIN Examining
-
+17 +1
Man As God: 'Frankenstein' Turns 200
In the 19th century, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay Nature: "A man is a god in ruins." Ever since people contemplated the existence of a divine dimension — and this belief must go back to the very early stages of Homo Sapiens or even earlier — with Neanderthals, a split occurred between the human condition and the eternal.
-
+41 +1
Could we soon 'upgrade' our bodies? Extreme bionics will create modular superhumans
MIT's Center for Extreme Bionics it trying to eliminate human disabilities and push us beyond the limits of our own bodies. From peg legs through hook hands and iron fists, for millennia prosthetics were a very poor substitute for our basic biology. No-one would have voluntarily chosen a prosthetic. But, over the past few decades, prosthetics have been improving in functionality. External appendages became internal implants such as artificial hips and knees.
-
+38 +1
Transhumanism Is Inevitable
"Transhumanism is becoming more respectable, and transhumanism, with a small t, is rapidly emerging through conventional mainstream avenues," Eve Herold reports in her astute new book, Beyond Human. While big-T Transhumanism is the activist movement that advocates the use of technology to expand human capacities, small-t transhumanism is the belief or theory that the human race will evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of deliberate technological interventions.
-
+2 +1
Engineers Create The First Dust-Sized Wireless Sensors That Can Be Implanted Into The Human Body
These devices do not require batteries and may also be able to stimulate nerves and muscles opening up doors for electroceuticals to treat disorders including epilepsy and stimulate the immune system or lower inflammation. The neural dust is implanted in the muscles and peripheral nerves of rats and is unique due to its use of ultrasound. It holds the ability to both power and read measurements. Ultrasound technology is already very thoroughly developed for the care of hospice patients and ultrasound vibrations are able to penetrate just about everywhere within the human body making them much more useful than radio waves.
-
+13 +1
The Church of Perpetual Life Wants to End Deathism
Easter celebrations. The swearing in of President Obama with a bible. The Pledge of Allegiance’s “One nation under God.” Ted Cruz’s freakish evangelism. Even when we sneeze, many Americans still reflexively say: God bless you. American society exists in an engulfing religious framework—and that inescapable Abrahamic point of view leads to one ultimate goal: an eternal afterlife with the maker. For the majority of Americans—about 70 percent—that is what they believe and how they live in...
-
+12 +1
The one percent discovers transhumanism
The World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland just wrapped up its annual gathering. It isn’t hard to make fun of this yearly coming together of the global economic and cultural elites who rule the world, or at least think they do.
-
+6 +1
Mark Zuckerberg plans to build an AI butler like in 'Iron Man'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's resolution in 2016 is to build an AI system similar to Jarvis from Iron Man.
-
+21 +1
Disney Teams Up With Open Bionics To Make Cool 3D Prosthetics For Kids
Disney Teams Up With Open Bionics To Make Cool 3D Prosthetics For Kids
-
+21 +1
Geneticists Are Concerned Transhumanists Will Use CRISPR on Themselves
The biggest debate at the International Summit on Human Genome Editing is where to draw the line between "medical treatment" and "body enhancement." Will transhumanists ruin gene editing for everyone else?
-
+19 +1
Made to order
Parents already put their children under intense pressure to compete in the world. Will gene editing make it worse? By Erik Parens.
-
+31 +1
Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’
If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch which looks at the likely effects of a robot revolution. But you might not end up reassured. Though it promises robot carers for an ageing population, it also forecasts huge numbers of jobs being wiped out: up to 35% of all workers in the UK and 47% of those in the US, including white-collar...
-
+27 +1
This Technology Wants to Make Wheelchairs Obsolete
Ekso Bionics has a simple premise: create robotics that help people. And the company is doing just that with its wearable exoskeleton. Using a combination of weight-activated sensors and battery-powered motors, the bionic suit is helping wheelchair-bound users learn how to walk again.
-
+32 +1
Electronic skin feels the heat, hears the sound
A new electronic skin can feel the grain of sand paper, the heat and beat of a person’s pulse — and listen to Richard Feynman’s voice, too. Rubbery plastic-and-graphene film mimicking the structure of human skin can detect texture, temperature, pressure and sound, Hyunhyub Ko and colleagues report October 30 in Science Advances. It’s the first time anyone has demonstrated an e-skin that can sense so many different kinds of stimuli, says Stanford University...
-
+56 +1
The False Science of Cryonics
What the nervous system of the roundworm tells us about freezing brains and reanimating human minds.
-
+19 +1
Gadi Amit of Fitbit, Lytro and Sproutling creates new underskin wearable
In 2013, two San Francisco-based entrepreneurs, Chris Bruce and Mathew Spolin, contacted a local product designer called Gadi Amit with the idea of making a wearable device. "They had some core sensors and a general idea for the branding," Amit says. "But, as is usually the case with wearables, most of the sensors brought to us were raw inventions from a medical lab. The end users are not medical professionals." In fact, in the case of Bruce's and Spolin's device, the Sproutling...
-
+51 +1
Why I Advocate for Becoming a Machine
Transhumanists want to use technology and science to become more than human. Naturally, in this process, certain elements of our humanness will be replaced and likely lost. Many people have conflicting feelings about this. Part of the problem with people’s perceptions of losing their humanness is not their fear of becoming something else, but their inability to empathize with their future selves.
-
+19 +1
Transhumanism – The Final Religion?
After several decades of relative obscurity Transhumanism as a philosophical and technological movement has finally begun to break out of its strange intellectual ghetto and make small inroads into the wider public consciousness. This is partly because some high profile people have either adopted it as their worldview or alternatively warned against its potential dangers... By Dirk Bruere.
-
+2 +1
This magic exoskeleton for industrial workers is the future
"We figured out how to support weight without any power."
Submit a link
Start a discussion