The Philosophy of Games and the Postwork Utopia
No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
Read More »No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
Read More »We often have negative views about the future, but perhaps that’s because we resent how good it might be.
Read More »New testament scholar and retired bishop N.T. Wright, billionaire Peter Thiel, and moderator Ross Douthat share a discussion of hope, technology, politics, and theology at the Veritas Forum.
Read More »Welcome to 2015, post-normal times, where peak oil is history but peak weirdness is still ahead.
Read More »Excerpted from FM-2030’s Are You a Transhuman? just in time for election day 2014.
Read More »Individual reproductive rights and reproductive freedom should be an important principle for transhumanists, but the topic is widely misunderstood. While some argue for restricting parental rights, restrictions on reproductive rights also leads to restrictions in scientific research, medical treatments, and correspondingly, a reduction in longevity.
Read More »A quick little short video that I recently found. This video explains a bit about transhumanism and the nature of personhood, and it's short and a good introduction for an impatient friend.
Read More »While teaching courses in the computer science department at the University of Texas at Austin, I came to believe that 21st century technology—especially nanotechnology, genetics, artificial intelligence and robotics—will transform reality.
Read More »What is it about technology and industrialization that makes states more peaceful in general, and towards one another?
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