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Keywords for Environmental Studies
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by eds. Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, David N. Pellow

Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Walker

The Brain: The Story of You
by David Eagleman

Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
by Calum Chace


ieet events

Rushkoff @ The 92nd St. Y, NYC, NY
February 20 -, 2016
92nd St. Y, NYC, NY


Rushkoff @ SXSW - Austin, TX
March 12 , 2016
Austin, Texas


Rushkoff @ City Lights, SF
March 23 , 2016
City Lights, San Francisco


Rushkoff @ SF Commonwealth Club
March 24 , 2016
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco


Rushkoff @ Toronto
April 11 , 2016


Sorgner@Star Trek “New Worlds” event
April 15 -17, 2016
Nürnberg, Germany


Kevin LaGrandeur at Cleveland MOCA
April 28 , 2016
Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MOCA) Spring Exhibition


Wendell Wallach @ Connecticut Science Center
May 5 , 2016
Connecticut Science Center


BJ Murphy@Moogfest
May 20 , 2016
Durham, North Carolina


Sorgner@8th Beyond Humanism Conference
May 25 -28, 2016
Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Faculty of Philosophy


Benedikter@Vienna
June 16 , 2016
14th “European Transport Congress” and 90th anniversary of the “Austrian Society for Traffic and Transport Science" - Vienna


Campa@Third ISA Forum on Sociology
July 12 , 2016
Vienna, Austria


Stefan Sorgner @ Meditation & Wirklichkeit Conference in Berlin
November 25 -26, 2016
Berlin


ieet news

Stefan Sorgner Interviewed on German TV
(Mar 5, 2016)

IEET Fellow Stefan Lorenz Sorgner was interviewed on emerging technologies on German national television.


Roland Benedikter is Keynote Speaker in Vienna
(Mar 3, 2016)

IEET Affiliate Scholar Roland Benedikter will deliver a Keynote Speech on June 16, 2016, in Vienna, Austria.


Roland Bendikter interviewed by American Humanist Association (Mar 3, 2016)

IEET in Rolling Stone magazine, with a quote from our CTO Marcelo Rinesi (Mar 1, 2016)


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ieet articles


Rick Searle How dark epistemology explains the rise of Donald Trump
by Rick Searle
Mar 7, 2016 • (0) CommentsPermalink

We are living in what is likely the golden age of deception. It would be difficult enough were we merely threatened with drowning in what James Gleick has called the flood of information, or were we doomed to roam blind through the corridors of Borges’ library of Babel, but the problem is actually much worse than that. Our dilemma is that the very instruments that once promised liberation via the power of universal access to all the world’s knowledge seem just as likely are being used to sow the seeds of conspiracy, to manipulate us and obscure the path to the truth.


Susan Schneider Goodbye, Little Green Men
by Susan Schneider
Mar 7, 2016 • (1) CommentsPermalinkThey’re big-eyed and slight of build. They’re the grim, greenish beings that every moviegoer recognizes as aliens—the inscrutable inhabitants of a distant world. Playing supporting roles in countless films and TV shows, these hairless homunculi have become iconic.< But we've never seen a real alien. Indeed, we don't even know if real aliens exist.
this essay was co-written with Seth Shostak

Gareth John Buddhism’s Teaching on the Five Elements: An Answer to Creating Friendly AGI?
by Gareth John
Mar 6, 2016 • (2) CommentsPermalink

To start, I need to be specific about what Buddhism means in this context.

I suggest there is no such thing as ‘Buddhism’, but rather ‘Buddhisms’. There is little in common with Buddhism as taught in the Theravada (the earliest Buddhist teachings as based on those of Siddhartha Gautama - ‘the Buddha’), Zen, or the Tibetan tantric traditions. Although they all maintain the base of their teachings on the realisation of the Buddha, the methods they employ vary widely.


John G. Messerly Has There Been Biological Progress?
by John G. Messerly
Mar 6, 2016 • (0) CommentsPermalink

We have already seen thinkers like Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec defend the idea that cosmic evolution is progressive. But what of biological progress? The debate between those who defend evolutionary progress and those who deny it has been ongoing throughout the history of biology. On the one hand, more recent biological forms seem more advanced, on the other hand no one agrees on precisely what progress is.


David Brin International Rivalry - is much of it based on Theft?
by David Brin
Mar 5, 2016 • (1) CommentsPermalink

The Great Brain Robbery”  was the most highly rated episode of 60 Minutes in seven years, about the systematic use of industrial espionage by China and others, featuring interviews based on the work of international tech-econ guru Mark Anderson, whose Strategic News Service is vital for you business-newsletter subscribers, and whose Future in Review” (FiRe) Conference is one of the most important and fun conclaves going.


George Dvorsky First Uterus Transplant in US Offers Hope to Thousands of Infertile Women
by George Dvorsky
Mar 5, 2016 • (0) CommentsPermalink

A team of surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have performed the first uterus transplant in the United States. A 26-year-old woman underwent the nine-hour operation on Wednesday, setting the stage for a future pregnancy—and what might possibly become a routine procedure in US hospitals.


John Danaher Technological Growth, Inequality and Property Price Increases: An Explanation?
by John Danaher
Mar 4, 2016 • (1) CommentsPermalink

This post is a bit of a departure for me. I’m not an economist. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I dabble occasionally in economics-related topics, particularly those concerning technology and economic theory, but I rarely get involved in the traditional core of economics — in topics like property prices, economic growth, debt, wealth inequality and the like. But it’s precisely those topics that I want to get involved with in this post.


Maria Konovalenko Longevity Cookbook: Pharmacological Extension of Lifespan
by Maria Konovalenko
Mar 4, 2016 • (0) CommentsPermalink

Here is a teaser from the Longevity Cookbook project.

The first chapter is on pharmacologic enhancement of lifespan. This chapter includes different ways of trying to develop pharmaceuticals to combat aging.


Rory Viner Future Emotions: How Synaesthesia, Technology and Experimental Music Dilate Our Internal Geographies
by Rory Viner
Mar 3, 2016 • (1) CommentsPermalink

What follows is a description of experiments using the medium of sound and emerging sound technologies to destabilize conceptions and reposition ourselves to histories of social trauma and to our own sense of self. Can we interrogate these intersections of meaning and data in new ways? Can we dilate emotional immediacy through such re­imaginings? Does technology allow and help us to reconsider these approaches?


EMG La guerre invisible
by EMG
Mar 3, 2016 • (0) CommentsPermalink

Je tenterai, dans cet article, de poser quelques réflexions sur le sujet de l’Emulation de Cerveau Entier (ECE), qui me semble trop rapidement traité dans l’espace francophone, alors que c’est précisément un sujet qui évolue très vite et qui permet de toucher à beaucoup de domaines de connaissances de l’humain. Fasciné par les perspectives qu’il ouvre, je suis depuis plusieurs années les aventures des (trop) rares scientifiques qui le prennent au sérieux. Dans une deuxième partie, je comparerai le chantier de l’ECE avec d’autres grands projets humains récents ou moins récents.


Giulio Prisco Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof: the Diamond Lady of DIY Governance 2.0
by Giulio Prisco
Mar 2, 2016 • (0) CommentsPermalink

After interviewing my friend Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, founder of Bitnation, for my recent Bitcoin Magazine article titled “Bitnation Launches World’s First Blockchain-Based Virtual Nation Constitution,” I am thinking of the parallels between Susanne’s vision of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) “Governance 2.0” and my vision of DIY “Religion 2.0.”

Bitnation’s vision of future open societies is, in one word, awesome.


Hank Pellissier Basic Income Guarantee — my three hesitations
by Hank Pellissier
Mar 2, 2016 • (2) CommentsPermalink

I support the generous intention of Basic Income Guarantee: the notion of “sharing the wealth”, rescuing people from impoverishment, granting a cushion to help people pursue their dreams.

I am on board with all that but I have three hesitations. Quibbles that trouble me…


John Danaher Should We Be Grateful for Death?
by John Danaher
Mar 1, 2016 • (6) CommentsPermalink

Most people think death is bad. They approach it with a degree of trepidation, possibly even denial. The prospect is particularly acute for someone who does not believe in an afterlife. Could such a person ever view death as a gift, something for which they should be grateful? That’s the intriguing question asked by Mikel Burley in his article “Atheism and the Gift of Death”. I want to take a look at his answer in this post.


Margaret Morris A Way to Pay for Global Citizen’s Income: Project Update and Report
by Margaret Morris
Feb 29, 2016 • (0) CommentsPermalink

Concerning a way to pay for an Unconditional Basic Income that grows instead of fails or remains just enough to relieve severe poverty:

A Basic Income project was announced at Transhumanity.net on November 24, 2014.(1) The approach described involves a practical way of enlarging the space economy so as to create ongoing revenue for eliminating global poverty.


George Dvorsky Brain Implant Will Let Amputees Move Individual Fingers on Prosthetics With Thoughts Alone
by George Dvorsky
Feb 29, 2016 • (1) CommentsPermalink

For the first time ever, researchers have successfully demonstrated a system that enables a person to move the individual fingers of a prosthetic hand using just their thoughts.


B. J. Murphy Health Insurance to Cover Exoskeleton Suits, One Step Closer to Humai Acceptance
by B. J. Murphy
Feb 28, 2016 • (0) CommentsPermalink

According to ReWalk Robotics Ltd. via PR Newswire:

“ReWalk Robotics Ltd., the leading global exoskeleton developer and manufacturer, announced today that a commercial health plan in the Northwest region of the United States has approved coverage and reimbursement for a ReWalk Personal exoskeleton system, following the ruling of an external independent review organization that overturned the health plan’s initial denial of coverage.”


David Orban Smart machines are our allies against dumb machines
by David Orban
Feb 28, 2016 • (0) CommentsPermalink

The trend is clearly visible: sensors, and actuators, together with computation, memory and communication capabilities, are making all the objects around us smarter and smarter. Too many times, wether we call them robots, or AIs, the trend is depicted in menacing tones, represented in the dystopian futures preferred by Hollywood movies, and shape the gut reactions of policymakers eager to please the reactionary impulses of their electorates.


Scott Santens The Disproportionate Effects of a Universal Basic Income
by Scott Santens
Feb 27, 2016 • (1) CommentsPermalink

Can UBI function as reparations?

One very interesting but not so easy to understand element of universal basic income is how it disproportionately helps traditionally marginalized groups more than anyone else.


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comments

AlonzoTG on 'Goodbye, Little Green Men' (Mar 7, 2016)

g3reth on 'Buddhism’s Teaching on the Five Elements: An Answer to Creating Friendly AGI?' (Mar 7, 2016)

almostvoid on 'International Rivalry - is much of it based on Theft?' (Mar 7, 2016)

almostvoid on 'Buddhism’s Teaching on the Five Elements: An Answer to Creating Friendly AGI?' (Mar 7, 2016)

R Wordsworth Holt on 'Should We Be Grateful for Death?' (Mar 6, 2016)

almostvoid on 'Future Emotions: How Synaesthesia, Technology and Experimental Music Dilate Our Internal Geographies' (Mar 5, 2016)

almostvoid on 'Artificial Consciousness – The Creativity Machine' (Mar 5, 2016)

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