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"Big Blue" rebuttal: No transhumanists here
IBM researcher defends Second Life, World of Warcraft, against Parallelnormal blog posts. from Mark: High-profile virtual worlders are trying to correct what they see as misrepresentations by...
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Zealots haunt environmentalist religion
Global warming now a core “belief” among environmentalists, says Freeman Dyson (Love your mother.) from Mark: Environmentalism is a secular religion that we can all get behind, physicist Freeman Dyson...
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Live long and prosper? We might do neither
Biotech body snatchers. A genetically “inferior” underclass. Increased terrorist attacks. Futurists will “make it so.“ (Marketing buzzword alert: “Futuring,” a verb, is the act of exploring of the...
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Robot "skin jobs" in the works
Japanese scientists say they’ve developed a fully-flexible, and stretchable, conductive skin for robots with carbon nantubes. U.S. scientists this week also announced they have made a flexible material...
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Gender-bending beyond meatspace
Loosen up! In virtual worlds, you can be any *thing* you want to be. Image: CC/Rivka Rau I’ve been out of the Second Life loop lately, save for this piece, which I wrote for the Boston Globe: Virtual...
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Transhumanism watch: Big pharma to hand out speed like Chiclets
Amped up on Adderall. Photo: CC/Unity Gain Shrinks on the take from the pharmaceutical industry and the Rockefeller Foundation are pushing Adderall and Ritalin as productivity boosters for humans. This...
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Transhumanists envision a life at sea
Cynthia thanks mother ocean. Photo: CC/Bettina Neuefeind Some folks are planning for a life at sea–on man-made islands: The mission of the [Seasteading Institute] is to enable the building of ocean...
View ArticleChopped liver: Jobs at head of line
Steve Jobs gets his new liver… Tennessee has shorter waits, no residency requirement. That suggests those who can pay are getting to the head of the line for this sort of thing. Incredibly, way back in...
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Top o' the heap: Burning Man worshippers to help us evolve
Mankind's future. Photo: CC/Ben Piven The theme at this year’s Burning Man Festival, for artists, is Evolution. Organizers of this quasi-religious rave party for repressed hipsters claim to be creating...
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UB boffins craft cells that never age
Photo: Bob Bobster (LIC)/Flickr CC In a big step toward human superlongevity, University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) boffins have made adult stem cells that *do not age.* The UB researchers anticipate...
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