organisations ::: ressources ::: texts ::: critics and …
De:Trans – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transhumanismus e.V. (“De:Trans möchte dazu beitragen, die Menschen darauf vorzubereiten: Ihnen zeigen, welche Szenarien durch moderne Wissenschaft und Technik möglich erscheinen. Und wie die Menschen sich selbst im Zuge dieser Entwicklung verändern können und werden.”)
Transcedo Dutch Transhumanist Society (“Spreading of the transhumanist meme in the Netherlands. The spreading of information, through the use of this website, using conventional advertising and folders, verbal communication and mailings, of especially the following concepts : Transhumanism in general, Cryonic Suspension, Molecular Nanotechnology. (Seen by many transhumanists as one of the most potential transhumanistic instruments to arrive in the near future.)“)
The Society For Venturism (“The Society for Venturism is a 501-(c)3, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization incorporated in Arizona. The Venturist Bylaws list, among the primary objectives and purposes of the Society, “To advocate and promote the worldwide conquest of death and the continuation and enhancement of life through technological means, including cryonic suspension ….”)
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (“Why Can’t We All Be Better Than Well? The IEET’s mission is to become a center for voices arguing for a responsible, constructive approach to emerging human enhancement technologies. We believe that technological progress can be a catalyst for positive human development so long as we ensure that technologies are safe and equitably distributed.”)
Transhumanist Arts & Culture World Center (“Transhumanist Arts focuses on a positive, meta-creative and enlightened view of human potential, aesthetic design in technology, the prevalence of science, and aestheticism in the future architecture of life.”)
The Ayn Rand Institute – The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism (“Welcome to the Web site of the Ayn Rand Institute, the authoritative online source for information on the life and works of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand, author of the famous novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. ‚My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.’ (Ayn Rand)”) Am Denken von Ayn Rand [Wikipedia] orientieren sich viele Transhumanisten, besonders die Extropianer.
Future Human Evolution (“This site is about the future of human evolution. We explore and present information on technological activities (and their associated social implications) that have the capacity to not only enhance our survival probability as a species, but to improve the quality of life as we move along the evolutionary path. We are non-partisan, and are neither anti nor pro-religious, preferring to remain open or at least tolerant regarding theories and beliefs which can be neither proven nor refuted scientifically. (See our pages on Macro vs. Micro Evolution and Science vs. Religion for more on these topics.)”)
Anarcho-Transhumanism – The Ultimate Synthesis (“Anarcho-Transhumanism stands for: – Political Freedom: Against the tyranny of government. – Economic Freedom: Against the tyranny of capitalism. – Biological Freedom: Against the tyranny of genes.”)
Mac Tonnies Visual Industries Transhumanism. (“The MTVI transhumanism site is an attempt to pin down the trends and technologies most likely to upgrade the human species. Evolution is a performance art.”)
KurzweilAI.net (“KurzweilAI.net features the big thoughts of today’s big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas. We are witnessing intersecting revolutions in a plethora of fields: biotechnology, nanotechnology, molecular electronics, computation, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, virtual reality, human brain reverse engineering, brain augmentation, robotics, and many others. The leading visionaries represented on this site examine these transforming trends and their profound impact on economics, the arts, politics, government, warfare, medicine, health, education, disabilities, social mores, and sexuality.”)
Paradise-engineering : The Hedonistic Imperative (“This manifesto outlines a strategy to eradicate suffering in all sentient life. The abolitionist project is ambitious, implausible, but technically feasible. It is defended here on ethical utilitarian grounds. Genetic engineering and nanotechnology allow Homo sapiens to discard the legacy-wetware of our evolutionary past. Our post-human successors will rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign the global ecosystem, and abolish suffering throughout the living world.”)
Terasem Movement (“The Terasem Movement, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity endowed for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness.”)
Society for Neural Interfacing (“The objective of the Society for Neural Interfacing (SNI) is to actively promote research on Neural Interfacing. SNI promotes the excitement of research on Neural Interfacing at the intersection of various fields of research. SNI promotes the diffusion and exchange of information among people dedicated to research on Neural Interfacing. SNI furthers the quest for wisdom and scientific truth by means of neural interfacing.”)
Max More, Business Futurism, Advanced Decision Making (“Writing, speaking, and consulting on advanced decision making & foresight methods for handling the impact of emerging technologies.”) Die Seite bietet eine grosse Anzahl von More’s Artikeln zum Download an. More ist der wohl bekannteste Transhumanist.
Nick Bostrom’s home page (“I’ll share my quest. You’ll also find a selection of my papers in philosophy of science, ethics, transhumanism, probability theory & on humanity’s future. And one fable.”) Diese Seite stellt eine grosse Anzahl von Bostroms Artikel online zur Verfügung.
James Hughes (“James Hughes teaches Health Policy at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut, and serves as Trinity’s Associate Director of Institutional Research and Planning. Dr. Hughes also serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and its affiliated World Transhumanist Association. Dr. Hughes produces the weekly syndicated public affairs talk show Changesurfer Radio, writes the Change Surfing column for Betterhumans.com, and contributes to the democratic transhumanist Cyborg Democracy blog.”
Rezension (deutsch) zu James Hughes: Citizen Cyborg. Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future, Cambridge 2004. ISBN 0-8133-4198-1.
Anders Transhuman Page (Homepage eines der wohl umtriebigsten europäischen Transhumanisten, die weiterführende Links und Texte anbietet.)
Nanogirl.com (“Personal Website of Gina Miller”)
Home and neighborhood of Alexander (Sasha) Chislenko (“In 1989, I left Leningrad, Russia for Boston, Massachusetts, as the relatively free society of the U.S. seemed more suitable for my goals: I want to understand how the world works, and steer it, and myself, into the glorious future. I invite you to walk around my cyberspace home. Here you can find many links to various things advanced and frontierish. This includes a number of my own articles on a variety of futuristic, technological and philosophical subjects, including my recent essays on Hyper-economy, Semantic Web, Cyborgs, liquid intelligence of the coming Mind Age, Enhanced Reality, Collaborative information filtering, and various other topics.”) Chislenko died in 2000.
Ray Kurzweil (“is an inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist. Called “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes, Kurzweil’s ideas on the future have been touted by his many fans, ranging from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton. MIT’s Marvin Minsky writes that “with his brilliant descriptions of the coming connections of computers with immortality, Kurzweil clearly takes his place as a leading futurist of our time.” George Gilder writes that “Kurzweil’s ideas make all other roads to the computer future look like goat paths in Patagonia.”) Ray Kurzweil ist wohl der bekannteste “Zukunfstautor” der Welt. Seines aktuellstes Werk ist “The Singularity is near. When Humans transcend Biology” (2005).
V.R.Manoj’s Transhumanist Musings. (“I regularly participate in the World Transhumanist Assosiation’s WTA-TALK online discussion list. The following will be some of the Many posts I have made to the list expressing my views on the transhumanist philosophy. I am doing this as a reminder to myself on the evolution of my own thoughts. I shall not be posting the replies in the list posted by others. I have also edited these posts so that only excerpts of my views are present here.”)
The Politics of Transhumanism. Version 2.0 (James J. Hughes, Ph.D.)
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