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Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing–and will change–human beings in fundamental ways.

Editor's Blog

Rachel Marone
April 10, 2012

MorpHex, a morphing hexapod. Adjusting the body size when walking. Transforming into a sphere. Video demonstration.

Byron Reese
April 9, 2012

It is easy to miss the Internet Renaissance that is happening around us. Because it grows gradually by the day, it is like the proverbial frog in the pot who doesn’t feel the water warming up around him.

Rachel Marone
April 6, 2012

Jason Silva on The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast.

Rachel Marone
April 6, 2012

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.

Ilia Stambler
April 5, 2012

A series of activist events for radical life extension recently took place in Israel.

George Dvorksy
April 5, 2012

A boy has stunned medics with his ability to see in pitch black with eyes that glow in the dark.

Rachel Marone
April 4, 2012

I think all dystopian writers share the burden of witnessing how influential their ideas are. If you have a negative vision for humanity and it ends up coming true how much of this is due to your own influence? If we recognize patterns that lead us to think we are heading for catastrophe should we share them with the world? Or is it better not to put these memes into the cultural DNA pool?

Sharon Hirsch, MD & Rodney Shackelford, DO, Ph.D.
April 4, 2012

Slowing and even reversing the aging process has been a human preoccupation throughout history. Efforts to increase the human lifespan largely involved wishful thinking and no attempts to increase the human lifespan prior to the twentieth century are known to have been successful.

Rachel Marone
April 4, 2012

We are seeking articles that provide unique perspectives on Transhumanism. It is important that you are both engaging and scientific. We are not looking for overly opinionated or overly academic articles but articles that manage to blend a healthy dose of both personality and fact. We want your articles to provoke discussion and we also want people to learn from them.

Rachel Marone
April 3, 2012

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

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