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A survey and collation of the ideas of Science Fiction writers writing over the past 140 plus years reveals no less than 28 Possibilities — 28 ways of being which we might choose to evolve towards, or which might evolve alongside us.

Ellipse is a science fiction short film that spans centuries and galaxies being made by director, Ilana Rein, who also made the award-winning documentary WE ARE ALL CYLONS.

“The Transhuman Overlords cloned me, brought my consciousness from virtual storage.”

Though our contemporary world still enjoys the favours of Enlightenment, people from every kind of scientific and philosophical discipline seem to have been defeated in the task of excavating our human origins. And it took a long way down. The Antique World, the Medieval World and all the following eras found themselves among the quest of trying to answer this most vital question: what does it mean to be human?

NASA Restablishes Contact with Mars Colony, Third Human Clone, Moon Hotel, First Cryro-preserved Person Revived, Wormhole Created by Scientists, Rover Landing on Gliese 581g

Some of the first cylons were undoubtedly among the scientific and philosophical pioneers of the human race. Yet others excelled in finance, law and social sciences, and they were the ones who led to the cylon related resolutions of UN in ’36, and the later agreements.

Well known cyberpunk author John Shirley recently gave a talk at TEDx Brussels in which he discusses two ideas of The Singularity, one true and one false, as well as a dark vision of the near future.

Based on my totally unscientific observations, the number of science fiction novels with explicitly Singularitarian and transhumanist themes seems to be increasing exponentially. At very least, the number of such novels finding their way to my inbox or snail mail box is increasing exponentially. Due to my role here at H+ Magazine, I get sent [...]

Matt Swayne interviews author Vance Ashley Woodward about his new book “The Meatbot’s Guide to the Technological Singularity: Prepare to Smartify”

The rise of “machine intelligence” — no longer acceptably called “artificial”— exploded shortly after President Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012. Funded by significant grants in the areas of machine learning and social robotics, American scientists made huge leaps forward as soon as 2015. The year 2016 saw New York’s first coffee shop operated entirely by robots, and, now quaintly archaic, the small store has joined the Statue of Liberty as one of the city’s landmarks of American history.

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