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h+ magazine – Is the future cancelled?

rheil — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:49:33 +0000

Online Book: “Living Healthier and Longer – What Works and What Doesn’t”

rheil — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:27:38 +0000

Welcome to the online edition of “Living Healthier and Longer – What Works and What Doesn’t”.

by Carl Bartecchi, M.D. and Robert W. Schrier, M.D.

„This is book is part of an innovative public health initiative to disseminate timely, accurate, and undestandable health information on a wide scale.“ [download location]

Flux Magazine

rheil — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:49:13 +0000

Flux Magazine

Flux will give you a taste of the torrent of new technological developments advancing on us: from the energy issue to human enhancement, from information technology to nanotechnology. This magazine is compiled on the occasion of the conference ‘Inspiring Future Politics’ to be held by the EPTA (European Parliamentary Technology Assessment) on Monday 27 October and Tuesday 28 October in The Hague, the Netherlands. The keynote speakers at this conference – chemist Michael Braungart, toxicologist Ellen Silbergeld, sociologist Nikolas Rose and climate expert Pier Vellinga – are interviewed in Flux. No one is more aware of the shifts taking place in our society. They have, furthermore, succeeded in formulating these issues aptly and getting them on to the (political) agenda. More information about the conference is available at www.eptaconference.eu. Because we want you to share in the speakers’ stories and the conference themes, you’ll find inspiring interviews, background stories and columns in ‘Flux’. […]

h+ transhumanist magazine launched

rheil — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:08:31 +0000

h+ transhumanist magazine launched

Humanity Plus (formerly the World Transhumanist Association) has launched h+, a stylish, web-based quarterly magazine that focuses on transhumanism, covering the scientific, technological, and cultural developments that are challenging and overcoming human limitations.

Edited by the legendary RU Sirius, co-founder and editor of the seminal Mondo 2000 magazine, and beautifully designed by virtual worlds artist D.C. Spensley, the magazine’s first issue features cutting-edge ideas and interviews with leaders in longevity, neuroengineering, nanofabrication, open-source robotics, science fiction, and other breakthrough areas. [...]

The Scientific Conquest of Death

rheil — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:42:29 +0000

The Scientific Conquest of Death

Essays on Infinite Lifespans (2004) Edited by Immortality Institute

ISBN: 9875611352

Book Content

Introduction

Overview

Chapter I: SCIENCE: Biomedicine, Nanotechnology and other strategies

- Biological Immortality – Rose

- The War on Aging – Grey

- The Dream of Elixir Vitae – Magalhes

- Therapeutic Cloning – West

- Nanomedicine – Freitas

- Human Body Version 2.0 – Kurzweil

- Progress Toward Cyberimmortality – Bainbridge

- Will Robots Inherit the Earth? – Minsky

- Medical Time Travel: A Question of Science – Wowk

Chapter II: PERSPECTIVES: Ethics, Sociology and Philosophy

- Some Ethical and Theological Considerations – Mellon

- Superlongevity without Overpopulation – More

- Upsetting the Natural Order – Treder

- The Self-Defeating Fantasy – Rabkin

- Time Consciousness in Very Long Life – Clynes

- Confessions of a Proselytizing Immortalist – Vyff

- Some Problems with Immortalism – Best

- An Introduction to Immortalist Morality – Geddes

- Should We Fear Death? – Blackford

- Who Wants To Live Forever? – Bostrom

Chapter III: Resources

Bibliography

Publishers Note

Thanks

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Journal of Evolution and Technology

rheil — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:09:33 +0000

Journal of Evolution and Technology

J.B.S. Haldane: Daedalus, or, Science and the Future

rheil — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:40:52 +0000

J.B.S. Haldane: Daedalus, or, Science and the Future. A paper read to the Heretics, Cambridge, on February 4th, 1923. Einer der wichtigsten historischen Referenztexte des Transhumanismus.

J.B. Bernal: The World, the Flesh & the Devil

rheil — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:40:03 +0000

J.B. Bernal: The World, the Flesh & the Devil. An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul, 1929 Wichtiger historischer Referenztext des Transhumanismus.

Julian Huxley: Transhumanism

rheil — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:39:07 +0000

Julian Huxley: Transhumanism, in: New Bottles for New Wine, London: Chatto & Windus, 1957, pp. 13-17. (““I believe in transhumanism”: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Pekin man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.”) Erste Nennung des Begriffs “Transhumanismus”. Julian Huxley – Bruder des berühmten Aldous Huxley – ist der Gründer des Evolutionären Humanismus.

Robert C.W. Ettinger: Prospect of Immortality

rheil — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:37:33 +0000

Robert C.W. Ettinger: Prospect of Immortality (“The following is from the dust jacket of the British hard cover edition, 1965. Would you like to live for ever, here on this earth? In the very near future this may become a real possibility. Indeed, in theory it is possible now, for if one was to be deep-frozen and stored away it is inevitable that in fifty, or a hundred, or a thousand years (time becomes meaningless in this context) surgery will have progressed to the point where damage to the cells which is at present irreparable will be able to be repaired. The difficulty at the moment is that present methods of freezing and unfreezing are so crude that a great deal more damage is done in the process. But this again is something which will soon be overcome.”) Einer der wichtigsten Referenztexte von dem wohl wichtigsten Autor in Sachen Cryonic.