Boredom is a Killer
Please, readers! If you experience disinterest, apathy, ennui, malaise, dysthymia, lassitude, or neurasthenia as you peruse this essay... click away to safety!
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The Singularity Is Near: The Movie — Sneak Preview. It’s Awesome!
There were many moments of high irony before we Sonoma Film Festival attendees got to preview a somewhat unfinished version of The Singularity is Near: The Movie -- based on the Ray Kurzweil book of the same name.
Read More »Events… INCOMING! Fassbinder’s ’73 VR Movie, Kurzweil’s Singularity Movie, Rucker’s Art Show, Rushkoff w. R.U. Sirius, Turkle
Great Sunday NY Times article about a film made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder for German TV in 1973 titled World on a Wire.
Read More »ACLU v. The Gene Patents… and the winner is…
Since the pubication of our October 26, 2009 article "ACLU v. The Gene Patents," we've been watching the case in which the ACLU and the Public Patents Office, among many others, took legal action against Myriad Genetics for patenting certain genes.
Read More »Feeling Great Forever
I just got back from a short trip to Mexico where I went for the express purpose of having a few grams of placental tissue transplanted beneath the skin of my lower abdomen.
Read More »Sex and The Singularity
We asked several leading thinkers in the radical tech community the following question: Is there sex in the posthuman or singularitarian future? We invited them to pontificate in 400 words or less. These are the results.
Read More »Transgender, Transhuman, Transbeman: Uploading with Martine Rothblatt
If anyone is going to persuade us to abandon the flesh, be downloaded, and live forever as information, it is Martine Rothblatt.
Read More »The Psychedelic Transhumanists
Transhumanism in a fortune cookie: the familiar human world is just one point along a continuum of evolution, and we have an unprecedented capacity to participate in that process.
Read More »Aubrey de Grey on “The Singularity” and “The Methuselarity”
With his long flowing beard and optimistic predictions about engineering an end to death, Aubrey de Grey has become a legend within the longevity community.
Read More »Overlaying Reality with Your Cell Phone
That house over there. Is it for sale? Is there a good restaurant nearby? Jut pan the neighborhood with your camera-enabled Augmented Reality (AR) cell phone and find out.
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