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Transhumanism
Transhumanists gather in San Francisco
06 December 2012 |
Humanity+ is on the move.
Transhumanism: the politician
Michael Cook | 13 October 2012 |
The world’s first openly transhumanist politician is serving in a national parliament. Giuseppe Vatinno was elected in July for the Alleanza per l'Italia party in the Italian parliament.
Transhumanism: the theologians
Michael Cook | 13 October 2012 |
Transhumanism, at least in the Journal of Medical Ethics, has a distinctly theological flavour.
“Fixed” – new documentary on transhumanism and disability
Jared Yee | 24 August 2011 |
Filmmaker Regan Brashear recently screened a rough cut of “Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement”.
Killer was fan of transhumanism and reprogenetics
Michael Cook | 27 July 2011 |
In the wake of the murderous spree by Norwegian right-winger Anders Behring Breivik, bloggers and columnists have been trawling through his 1500-page rant about how to create a Muslim-free Europe to show how deluded Christians, or conservatives, or immigration opponents or [fill in the dots] are. But since much of “2083 – A European Declaration of Independence” was cobbled together from websites, there is something for everyone. Even fans of transhumanism and reprogenetics. Here it is. I cannot bear to comment.
Approach Frankenstein experiments gingerly, says UK report
Michael Cook | 23 July 2011 |
Mixing human and animal material should be approached with great caution, says the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in a report issued yesterday. But it recommends that some highly controversial experiments should be allowed to proceed, including modifying an animal’s brain to make it more human-like and the generation or propagation of functional human germ cells in animals.
Transhumanist sets goalposts for the future
Michael Cook | 23 July 2011 |
American political science commentator Francis Fukuyama once called transhumanism the world’s most dangerous idea. Whether this is true depends on your aspirations for society. But a brief article in Discover by a staffer with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a transhumanist thinktank, Kyle Munkittrick, at least shows that society will be very different if transhumanism gets traction.
Was Dante a transhumanist?
Michael Cook | 01 April 2011 |
Dante is not a figure who is often invoked as a forerunner of transhumanism, the movement to accelerate man’s evolution with technology and genetic engineering.
Pope skeptical about life extension projects
Michael Cook | 10 April 2010 |
Not an easy convert to transhumanism
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