Metaphor at the Edge of the Human
Billions of years in the future, The Time Traveler stands before a black ocean, under a bloated sun.
Billions of years in the future, The Time Traveler stands before a black ocean, under a bloated sun.
It might be prescient to ask who is the singularity, such an event might be a series of user-mediated innovations resulting from the teaming up of nano-bio-info technologies with neuroscience.
Over the years h+Magazine has provided you with a wide variety of articles on transhumanism and related topics of interest.
Anders Sandberg of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute taking us on a tour of transhumanism and human enhancement
Professor Doctor Hugo De Garis, Doctor Ben Goertzel and Ivar Moesman discusses various aspects of exponential growth of technology, artificial intelligence, bitcoin and 3D printing
Ray Kurzweil predicts that artificial intelligence will equal and then surpass human intelligence in the not-too-distant future, in what he calls the “moment of singularity.” Advances in brain/machine interfacing (BMI) may be viewed as a challenge to this futuristic prediction.
Perhaps it’s time to figure out ways to redesign our cognitive architectures so that people are less likely to adopt faith-based, delusional thinking about how the world ought to be.
Elizabeth Parrish is the CEO of BioViva, a biotech company in the Seattle area that is focused on developing gene therapies that may one day mitigate the diseases of aging.