Spike Jonze’s Her – Love in the time of AI
Spike Jonze‘s film Her, a love story between a human and one of the first artificial intelligences (AI), received several Golden Globe nominations and won the award for best screenplay.
Category: Fiction
Hangout on Air: Ramez Naam discusses Nexus, Crux, and The Infinite Resource
Ramez Naam is arguably one of today’s most interesting and important writers on futurist topics, including both non-fiction and fiction. Live questions and panel discussion.
Into the Teleport, To Be Two
We know how this one works, don’t we? It’s just like in Star Trek: into the device, smashed into a glitter-whorl smithereens of atoms, and then fired off into the cosmos to be reconstituted (sans boiling water) at a different exotic location.
TRANS/HUMAN by Ben Bova
A scientific thriller by six-time Hugo Award-winner Ben Bova to be released in 2014.
Numanity Episode 2 – Morphological Right
Crying out loud and running with no sense of direction away from other kids, the little boy just wanted to be alone. He ran and ran across a vast green field until suddenly realized he was on the verge of falling down from a cliff; he held his breath and he saw it there … the cloud.
Event: Ramez Naam CRUX Launch and Book Signing — Seattle WA Aug-27-2013
On August 27th, join the author in celebrating the launch with a reading and signing at Elliott Bay Book Stores at 7pm, and then later in the evening at Barca (just a block away) for cocktails.
Interview with Zoltan Istvan
The following is a short interview I conducted with Zoltan Istvan, author of the philosophical novel The Transhumanist Wager. Have some more questions for Zoltan? He will be appearing this Wednesday in San Jose California. See https://wp.dagiopia.net/2013/07/24/event-humanity-zero1-garage/ for additional information.