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David Hanson and I share a similar background in media, art and design. We both value new possibilities for human platforms for life extension. Where we are different is in our focus: I designed “Primo Posthuman” as a future body prototype for exploring theoretical ideas regarding regenerative media, nanorobots and AGI. Alternatively, David is actually building humanoid robots — including the Robokind commercial robot humanoid, and a variety of extremely realistic robot heads, incorporating unprecedentedly realistic facial expressions and voice. This interview covers some of David’s work in this area, including its exciting broader implications.

It’s a dilemma. Information really DOES want to be free on the Net. But, content creators also need to get paid! What’s the solution? It’s pretty simple, I think: Embed the making of micro-donations to content creators, directly into the media consumption experience….

Below is the video and transcription of an interview with Natasha Vita-More while in I was in Hong Kong helping with the Humanity+ @Hong Kong conference.

Their film is called The Vigilante, and its theme is one that has worried a lot of transhumanists over the last decades: What happens when mind modification technology is not only possible but starts to be considered obligatory? What if you don’t want the recommended tweaks to your psyche?

Why doesn’t everyone get excited about transhumanism? Why aren’t all people fascinated by augmented and virtual reality, radical life-extension, brain-uploading, and The Singularity? “The Casual Transhuman” will examine H+ topics from the layman’s perspective and give suggestions on how transhumanists can spread their ideas without looking like crackpots to the world-at-large.

Human soldiers have literally braved gunfire to protect machines on the frontline that had saved their lives dozens of times. Elderly people may gain back late-life autonomy and independence because of the services robots can provide. Where do these new friendships live up expectation? Where do they fall short? Expose us to the unexpected.

A Robot Bill of Rights is needed to reflect a new perspective in the way humans see future robots – not only as mechanical slaves but as sentient beings.

Ben Goertzel interviews Adam Ford about the upcoming Humanity+ @Melbourne (May 5-6 2012), which will feature Aubrey de Grey, Natasha Vita-More, Stelarc and many more inspiring speakers.

Since the 90′s, Intelligentsia have written soundtracks for Japanese video games and national TV and radio with music pressed to 250,000 + units. Their first gig was in Camden Palace (Koko), London, in 1991, and they have performed at over 50 live events worldwide, including the Interactive Live Show tour with electro pioneer Susumu Hirasawa (P-Model), The Future of Music (Denmark), Emotions (Belgium), the Alfa Centauri festival (Netherlands), and at the Yokohama Sports Stadium and Tocho Skyscraper in Japan.

Artists love to say their music has a mes­sage, but what hap­pens when that mes­sage is “the Sin­gu­lar­ity is Near”?

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.