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A Transhumanist Wants to Teach Kids That “Death Is Wrong”
Meghan Neal writes for Motherboard: Gennady Stolyarov is afraid to die, and not afraid to say so. He also strongly believes that human beings don’t have to die, or at least, will live much, much longer...
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“Negropodamus” disses Internet of Things, predicts knowledge pills
Ken Fisher reports for Ars Technica: Credit: Jim Whiteley TED’s 30th anniversary kicked off with MIT MediaLab founder Nicholas Negroponte, who took the stage to recount his 40-plus years of experience...
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Transhumanism reaches Hollywood in new high budget film
Xavier Symons writes for Bio Edge: Transhumanism is a movement receiving increasing attention on various levels of society. It has even sparked the curiosity of Hollywood. A new film by director Wally...
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Human microchipping: I’ve got you under my skin
Iain Gillespie writes for The Sydney Morning Herald: Thousands of technology enthusiasts use it as the ultimate app, enabling them to lock and unlock their homes, cars, computers and mobile phones with...
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Microchips Will Be Implanted Into Healthy People Sooner Than You Think
Dina Spector writes for Business Insider: ‘In March 2009, British researcher Mark Gasson had a chip injected under the skin of his hand. The chip, a slightly more advanced version of the tags used to...
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FIXED (Documentary Trailer): Where do we draw the line on bioehancement?
‘A new American documentary examines the ethical issues surrounding human enhancement for people with disabilities. The documentary, FIXED, contains interviews with a range of physically impaired...
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The rise of the transhumanist movement
Xavier Symons writes for BioEdge: ‘Whatever you think of transhumanism, one thing is quite certain: the transhumanist movement is alive, healthy and growing. In any ordinary week in the world of...
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DARPA Working on Computer Vision
Sputnik reports: ‘The United States military’s research and development agency is designing a brain interface to inject images directly into the human visual cortex via a “cortical modem” chip...
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Global Challenges: 12 Risks That Threaten Human Civilisation
The Global Challenges Foundation just issued a report on ’12 risks that threaten human civilisation': ‘This report has, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, created the first list of global risks...
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Humans will be cyborgs within 200 years, expert predicts
Fiona MacDonald reports for Science Alert: ‘Within the next 200 years, humans will have become so merged with technology that we’ll have evolved into “God-like cyborgs”, according to Yuval Noah Harari,...
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Silicon Assets: Is This the Bilderberg or the Circle K Behind My House?
Charlie Skelton writes for Flaunt Magazine: Where does true power reside? Is it waving at you from a stage-lit, Presidentially-sealed podium? Or tucked away inside a billionaire’s wallet? Can you smell...
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Roman Yampolskiy on the Rise of the Machines
The age of super smart machines is no longer the stuff of science fiction. The reality of their arrival is presenting both great opportunities and profound challenges across a wide swath of our lives....
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Dear “Skeptics”: Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
John Horgan is a science journalist who recently spoke at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) from May 12-15 in New York City. His speech has been republished in Scientific...
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Most Americans Think Technology Developed to Hack Our Bodies Will Just...
Michael J. Coren reports for Quartz: Upgrades are not just for software anymore. Humans are steadily gaining access to technologies that enhance our brains and bodies. But most Americans, says the Pew...
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The Robot Economy: Ready or Not, Here It Comes
JP Sottile writes for Truthout: September 17th changed everything. On that day in 2013, Oxford University published an innocuously titled academic paper by two mostly unknown economists. But “The...
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