Welcome to the h+ Magazine year in review!
Here’s a quick guide to our accomplishments together this year.
2014 was a great year for h+ Magazine thanks to you, our readers.
We set new records for total readership, most read articles, and more.
The site had more than 1.1 million views this year, up almost 40% from 2013. Our search placement and traffic from organic search is up as well.
While most of our readers come from the United States and English speaking nations, h+ Magazine readers come from over 200 countries around the world.
Here’s the top 50 nations.
Global Interest in Transhumanism in 2014
H+ Connect Integration
Not all of our readers are aware that h+ Magazine now includes a complete social network integrated into the site. If you register on h+ Magazine you already have an H+ Connect membership and profile. Coming in 2015, verified members of H+ Connect will have the opportunity to be listed in the Humanity+ Global Directory of Transhumanists.
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Most Read Articles in 2014
Some of the most popular articles in 2014 may surprise you.
| Grams Darknet Search Engine | | |
| The new technologies that will change human civilization as we know it | | |
| 5 FUTURE FORECASTS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD | | |
| Is It Better Never To Have Been Born? (anti-natalism) | | |
| Best of H+: Total Gender Change within a Decade | | |
| Mind uploading won’t lead to immortality | | |
| Your life is going to change faster than ever before | | |
| Elon Musk’s Secret Plan to Conquer the Universe | | |
| The Singularity is Still Closer than it Appears | | |
| Our Amazing Future | | |
| Is Precognition Real? Cornell University Lab Releases Powerful New Evidence that the Human Mind can Perceive the Future | | |
| How Nanotechnology Could Re-engineer Us | | |
| Prof. Hawking, the AIs will BE US | | |
| Christianity is Transhumanism | | |
| The Singularity: A Crucial Phase in Divine Self-Actualization? | | |
| Information Becoming Aware of Itself | | |
| Religion in the Age of Cyborgs | | |
| Paris Hilton on Existential Risks from Artificial Intelligence | | |
| Sexbots Will Give Us Longevity Orgasm | | |
| DIY Headphone Implant | | |
| How Long Till Human-Level AI? | | |
| Emotiv EPOC EEG Headset Hacked | | |
| Doomed Dome: The Future That Never Was | | |
| Review: Dan Brown’s Inferno | | |
| Elon Musk is More Dangerous than AI | | |
| Defeat Any Chatbot in a Turing Test with ASCII Art | | |
| Spike Jonze’s Her and the Big Question | | |
| How to Terraform Mars | | |
| Transhumanism and the End of Religion | | |
| Synthetic Meat — Passes Taste Tests, But Still Five Years Away from Commercial Availability | | |
| Cishumanism | | |
| Elon Musk’s Demonization of AI | | |
| TECHNOLOGICALLY ENHANCED BASIC INCOME AS A SOLUTION TO TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT | | |
| Top Ten Transhumanist Movies | | |
| The Mitochondrial Theory of Aging | | |
| Mindapps and The Neurosingularity Project | | |
| Future Energy: Metal-Air Batteries and Home Fuel Cells | | |
| Rejuvenate Your Cells by Growing New Mitochondria | | |
| Arts: The Parahuman Sculpture of Patricia Piccinini, Posthumanity and What It Really Means to be Human | | |
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| Could a machine or an AI ever feel human-like emotions ? | | |
| We Must Evolve | | |
| Is Drug Addiction Part of Human Evolution? | | |
| How to build your own personal satellite | | |
| #6814 (loading title) | | |
| Simulated Universe Nonsense (The Penguin Argument) | | |
| Update: Salt is good for you | | |
| Is it possible to build an artificial superintelligence without fully replicating the human brain ? | | |
| GDF11: A hormonal candidate for rejuvenation | | |
| Is the Tor Network Broken? | | |
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| Will Humans Achieve a Type 1 Civilization by 2100? | | |
| Interstellar Might Depict AI Slavery | | |
| Spike Jonze’s Her – Love in the time of AI | | |
| Magnet Implants I: Armstrong As Icarus | | |
| Response to Susan Schneider’s The Philosophy of ‘Her’ | | |
| Book Review: The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil (2005) | | |
| Fix diseases and improve yourself through gene therapy | | |
| What Does Chatbot Eugene Goostman’s Success on the Turing Test Mean? | | |
| Video Friday: DeepMind’s Shane Legg on Machine Superintelligence | | |
| What is Transhumanism? | | |
| Book Review: Bostrom’s ‘Superintelligence’ | | |
| How Close Are We to Real Nanotechnology? | | |
| Proposal: Dynamic Brain Switching As a Method to Maintain Consciousness During Mind Uploading | | |
| Can Singularity Critics Pass the Turing Test? | | |
| Black Holes Aren’t Real — Science Sensationalism vs. Science Ignorance | | |
| Biohacking/Grinder Update: Tim Cannon Implants Circadia 1.0 | | |
| Suspended Animation is About to Become a Reality | | |
| Fear is the Mind-Killer | | |
| Transhumanism and the History of Bitcoin | | |
| Artificial Intelligence: Hawking’s Flaw | | |
| The End of Nation States May Enhance Humanity | | |
| Human Mortality: Individual and Collective | | |
| Transcendence vs. Her: Clash of Two Wimpy Future Visions | | |
| Quantified Self How-To: Designing Self-Experiments | | |
| A Users Guide to WolframAlpha | | |
| Immortalism: Ernest Becker and Alan Harrington on Overcoming Biological Limitations | | |
| On the Importance of Being a Cyborg Feminist | | |
| Transhumanism and Scientific Requirements to Hold Political Office | | |
| Transhumanists Should Work At Google | | |
| Jaron Lanier on Transhumanism | | |
| Event: EROS EVOLVING – THE FUTURE OF LOVE, SEX, MARRIAGE and BEAUTY (produced by TRANSHUMAN VISIONS) | | |
| The Revolt Against Transhumanism | | |
| Redefining the Coming Singularity – It’s not what you think | | |
| Work Hard and Play Hard: A Nootropics Guide for Party Recovery | | |
| Interview: Gabriel Rothblatt Congressional Candidate in Florida’s 8th District | | |
| Event: Religion and Transhumanism – Conference May 10 2014 — Oakland CA USA | | |
| No, the body doesn’t just wear out as we get older | | |
| Dangerous Comedian Robot Escapes Norwegian Research Lab | | |
| Andy Droid: Your Sex Doll Has Arrived | | |
| Three Longevity Technologies to Watch | | |
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| There’s Plenty More Room at the Bottom: Beyond Nanotech to Femtotech | | |
| Virtual Reality and Drugs — Yes, You Should Get High Before Using VR | | |
| Transhumanism for the Encyclopedia of Ethics, Science, Technology and Engineering | | |
| How Long Are You Willing To Fight For Your Dreams? | | |
| “The Transhumanist Wager” by Zoltan Istvan — review by Ben Goertzel | | |
| Did the Singularity Just Happen? | | |
| What is the most promising medical technology on the horizon today? | | |
| The Brevity of a Human Life | | |
| Richard Dawkins is Wrong About Death | | |
| Beyond Money | | |
| Book Review: Life at the Speed of Light by J. Craig Venter (2013) | | |
| What’s All This Talk About “Cishumanism”? | | |
| DIY Bio: A Growing Movement Takes on Aging | | |
| Kaylene Kau’s Tentacle Prosthetic and Beyond | | |
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| Driverless autonomous vehicles will revolutionize transportation | | |
| Religion+ for Humanity+ | | |
| How the Brain Works | | |
| Chris French – Skepticism, Pseudoscience, Evidence & Critical Thinking – Interview in 4 Parts | | |
| Remote Car hacking is reality, do not to underestimate it | | |
| Organ Regeneration Technology Versus 3D Bio-Printing | | |
| The Transhumanist Bodhisattvas | | |
| Video Friday: Ray Kurzweil: How Do You Define Intelligence? How Do You Build a Mind? | | |
| Nerdvana — Cosmos relaunches with Neil deGrasse Tyson | | |
| The Dawn of the Neuro Age: OpenBCI Enables a DIY Revolution in Mind Controlled Devices | | |
| We Fear Thought | | |
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| The Next Global Superpower is… Korea? | | |
| Has Emily Howell Passed the Musical Turing Test? | | |
| Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives | | |
| Transhumanists Should Attend Singularity University | | |
| Eris — The Dawn of Distributed Autonomous Organizations and The Future of Governance | | |
| Masters of Synthetic Life | | |
| The Catholic Church Has Declared War on Transhumanism | | |
| Neural Networks and Deep Learning | | |
| Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno: Paradigm for the Future | | |
| Shall we wish for the singularity to happen and could it happen without human intervention ? | | |
| Motorola Patents Electronic Telepathy | | |
| Of Coconut Futures and Thermonuclear Fusion Power | | |
| Nanotechnology and Surgery: A Surgeon’s Perspective | | |
| Brain On a Chip | | |
| The Genomic Bodhisattva | | |
| Do We Need to Redefine the Human Subject? | | |
| TRANSHUMAN VISIONS 2.0 – FUTURE DAY – H+ | | |
| Direct Brain to Brain Communication Between Animals and Humans | | |
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| How Should We Spend Our Time? | | |
| Fly Your POV Around with Your Own Personal Quadcopter | | |
| Propaganda 2.0 and the rise of ‘narrative networks’ | | |
| Do Cognitive Enhancing Drugs Actually Work? | | |
| Monsanto, GMOs, and the Future of Open Source Synthetic Biology | | |
| Transhumanist Science Fiction: The Most Important Genre The World Has Ever Seen? (An Interview with David Simpson) | | |
| Will super-human artificial intelligence (AI) be subject to evolution? | | |
| Tutorial:Tracking Mental Improvements due to Nootropics | | |
| Google vs Death – Transhumanist Responses | | |
| Nature, the Ultimate Technology | | |
| We are Watching Sousveillance Gradually Emerge, and Expose More and More Abuses of Power | | |
| The Transhumanist Party: Could It Change Our Future? | | |
| Mormon Transhumanist Conference coming up, April 4 | | |
| Brain Augmentation: What’s the Deal? | | |
| Resuscitation, by Cryonics or Otherwise, Is a Religious Mandate | | |
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| Saving the World with Analytical Philosophy | | |
| Bigger Than Google | | |
| Review: Alpha Brain Nootropic Blend | | |
| The Psychedelic Transhumanists | | |
| Event: Transhumanism and Space Exploration May 14-18 Los Angeles CA (updated) | | |
| Why an Intelligence Explosion is Probable | | |
| 5 Positive Science Fiction Novels To Enjoy While Waiting for the Singularity | | |
| Book Review: Virtually Human by Martine Rothblatt | | |
| Scrapheap Transhumanism | | |
| Augmented Reality Rape — New Short Film Explores the Dark Side of AR Technology | | |
| The World’s Smallest Computer Is Smaller Than A Pill, Programmed With Flashing Light | | |
| Review: Archeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication | | |
| What Would “Cyborg” Mean If The Word Were Invented Today? | | |
| The three-day fast: Day Four | | |
| Why Christianity & Transhumanism Are Not Enemies | | |
| What physical or mental enhancements are possible through gene therapy ? | | |
| What Mars One Needs is Genetically Altered Human Colonists | | |
| Micro Machines and Opto-Electronics on a Contact Lense | | |
| The Transhumanistic Era | | |
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| Humanity+ Vs. Individualism+ | | |
| MitoQ = Targeted CoQ10 | | |
| Immanuel Kant: Morality Necessitates Immortality | | |
| Love, Death, and Oxytocin | | |
| X – teched creatures billions of years old | | |
| A Heavy Hitter Weighs In Against Evolutionary Theory | | |
| Life Extension Supplements: A Reality Check | | |
| A Samsung Robot In Every Home By 2020? | | |
| Infinity Point Will Arrive by 2035 Latest | | |
| Review: Singularity Rising by James D. Miller | | |
| Jethro Knights: DIY Omnipotender Tale of a Self-Made Superman (full article) | | |
| Hackers threatens major cyber-attack on World Cup 2014 | | |
| Hacking satellites | | |
| Enter the World of the Surrogates | | |
| Cryonics and Immortality Visionary: An Interview with Stephen Valentine of Timeship | | |
| Death, Transcendence and Transhumanism | | |
| Transhumanism Gets Political [updated (2)] | | |
| Wearing the Internet | | |
| Overview of Aniracetam vs. Piracetam | | |
| Buy a Raptor Fighter Ship used in Battlestar Galactica! | | |
| Video Friday: TRANSHUMAN Documentary by Titus Nachbauer | | |
| Modern Cosmology Versus Creation by Gods | | |
| What the Future May Hold for Mars | | |
| The Fermi Paradox, Self-Replicating Probes, and the Interstellar Transportation Bandwidth | | |
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Facebook
Facebook Experiment Demonstrates Transfer of Emotional States via Social Media
Review of Marcelo Gleiser’s, The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
The Indifference Engine: Manufacturing Consent in a Hyperconnected World
X – teched creatures billions of years old
Event Review: International Summit on Gene Editing