Archive for the ‘transhumanism’ category: Page 115
May 22, 2016
Ancient Aliens S11E03 The Next Humans
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transhumanism
May 19, 2016
The Future Is Now for the Transhumanist Party
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: genetics, geopolitics, robotics/AI, transhumanism
This new SF Weekly story is one of the best long features on transhumanism I’ve ever read. It covers a myriad of futurist subjects. It’s out in print today too.
When John Lennon released “Imagine” in 1971, his lyrics about a brotherhood of man living life in peace struck many people as a simple, even anodyne, response to the Vietnam War. Although politically liberal, Lennon was no doctrinal Marxist — only three years earlier, his song “Revolution” had shrugged off people who “go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao.” But the song struck many evangelical Christians as ghoulish, and for some, “Imagine” eventually came to be a sort of national anthem for the repressively secular, globalist state that was thought to be emerging: the anti-Christian New World Order that later became talk-radio conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ fever dream.
Left Behind, a series of 16 books written between 1995 and 2007 that details a possible end-of-the-world scenario, starting from when all good Christians go to heaven in an instant (the Rapture) until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, specifically calls out “Imagine” as a weapon in Satan’s arsenal of seductive propaganda. The Antichrist in Left Behind is a suave, cosmopolitan Romanian named Nicolae Carpathia — the product of the fused sperm of two gay atheist academics, as it happens — who uses the global confusion in the aftermath of the Rapture to become Secretary General of the U.N. and eventually dictator of a world government that tattoos its citizens with the Mark of the Beast, damning them for eternity.
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May 18, 2016
Space exploration will spur transhumanism and mitigate existential risk
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: alien life, cyborgs, existential risks, geopolitics, policy, robotics/AI, solar power, space travel, sustainability, transhumanism
Friends have been asking me to write something on space exploration and my campaign policy on it, so here it is just out on TechCrunch:
When people think about rocket ships and space exploration, they often imagine traveling across the Milky Way, landing on mysterious planets and even meeting alien life forms.
In reality, humans’ drive to get off Planet Earth has led to tremendous technological advances in our mundane daily lives — ones we use right here at home on terra firma.
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May 17, 2016
Will technology allow us to transcend the human condition?
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: transhumanism
May 17, 2016
The bionic skin that can feel a tumor
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience, transhumanism
Nice!
Our skin is our largest organ. A gateway between our brain and the rest of the world.
Imagine then a scene where skin could communicate what’s going on inside a human body. It could inform surgeons, provide alerts when our body is about to fall ill, or even diagnose diseases inside another human being, simply through the sense of touch.
May 13, 2016
Bringing The Dead Back To Life — Reanima Project / Bioquark Inc. Media Coverage
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biological, cryonics, disruptive technology, futurism, health, life extension, neuroscience, transhumanism
Fox 29 — Good Day Philadelphia
http://www.fox29.com/140735577-video
NBC TV 10
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Tags: aging, Alzheimer's, biotech, biotechnology, Brain, brain death, brain research, cancer, coma, connectome, cryonics, Cryopreservation, Death, future, futurism, Immortal Life, immortalism, immortality, longevity, Medical Technology, Neuroscience, philosophy of mind, rejuvenation, research, resurrection, singularity, technology, transhuman, transhumanism
May 8, 2016
You Can “Feel” Your Fingers With This Bionic Arm
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, transhumanism
You Can “Feel” Your Fingers With This Bionic Arm
Researchers have built a bionic arm that allows patients to control and “feel” their individual fingers.
May 7, 2016
Purdue technology revolutionizes future of artificial limbs
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cyborgs, transhumanism
Expansion of BMI and Bionics has now come to Purdue University.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Researchers at Purdue have been working on technology that will help pave the way for the future people who use artificial limbs.
“The point of these research labs is to discover new technologies that we can translate into the real world and make the world a better place,” Purdue Center for Implantable Devices Director Pedro Irazoqui said.
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May 6, 2016
The transhumanist presidential candidate wants you to live forever
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism
New story and video on transhumanism from Vocativ:
His name is Zoltan Istvan, and he’s running on the Transhumanist ticket.
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