Asked when, if ever, a robot would deserve ‘human’ rights, respondents to a recently concluded poll of our readers showed dissatisfaction with the range of answers we offered. Almost 22% gave their own answers, and another 10% said they weren’t sure.

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We are pleased to announce that Wendell Wallach has accepted an appointment as Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies for 2011.

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In responding to a recently concluded poll, IEET readers selected bioengineering as the emerging technology most likely to make a big impact during this decade.

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Daniel McIntosh writes on “The Transhuman Security Dilemma ,” and Jamie Bronstein reviews Nicholas Agar’s book on transhumanism, Humanity’s End.

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. David Eagleman has accepted an appointment as Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies for 2011.

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By a large margin, respondents to a recently concluded poll chose fairness, equality, and social justice as higher values than material comforts.

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Join those who are committed to a future of hope and reason, of science and optimism, of flourishing and sustainable societies.

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According to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2010?

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Over at the Journal of Evolution and Technology we’ve published a new article by Nicholas Agar, in which he summarises some of the argument from his new book, Humanity’s End, which focuses on and critiques the work of Ray Kurzweil, and the IEET’s Nick Bostrom, James Hughes and Aubrey de Grey.

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Two-thirds of those responding to a recently concluded poll of IEET readers say that human morality is not fixed, that it can be improved “” and that we see it happening all the time.

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When asked, in a recently concluded poll, whether science and religion can coexist peacefully, IEET readers responded with sharply different views.

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What if America lost its knack for making things? IEET Fellow David Brin’s new graphic novel Tinkerers is set in the year 2024, and combines art with history and tech to explore where the U.S. went wrong.

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Only 5% of IEET readers would keep drug laws as they are or would make them even more restrictive, according to a recently concluded poll. A large majority favors more liberal approaches.

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JET has published two new essays: Stefan Sorgner’s “Beyond Humanism: Reflections on Trans- and Posthumanism ,” a response to the essays responding to his original JET essay on Nietzsche and posthumanism, and Edgar Dahl’s “Gendercide? A Commentary on The Economist’s Report About the Wordwide War on Baby Girls.”

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Dr. Patrick Lin, a Fellow of the IEET and an assistant professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic State University, was a featured guest on a recent edition of the NPR program “Talk of the Nation,” discussing the ethics of robot warfare.

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We asked our readers whether they think laws are needed to stop robots and computers from lying, and the results are decidedly mixed.

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IEET Director George Dvorsky was a featured guest on a recent edition of “The Mark Radio,” talking about transhuman-tech developments we can expect to see in the coming decades.

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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Melanie Swan, MBA, and Patrick Hopkins, PhD, as Affiliate Scholars of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

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Nearly 70% of those who answered an IEET poll question say the human libido is here to stay. Though it may become adjustable and even optional, enhanced humans or posthumans are likely to retain some form of the libido for its social bonding function “” not to mention its pleasure factor!

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IEET Board Member Giulio Prisco was interviewed for a new article in the online magazine, H+.

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In the last year our web traffic has doubled.

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Our new IEET reader poll asks whether the exercise of human sexuality someday could become obsolete.

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A clear plurality, though not a majority, of respondents to a recently concluded poll agree that no matter how far ahead we look, the exercise of politics will remain vital.

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Doug Rushkoff’s first book on interactive media, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, is now heading to the printer and available for pre-order.

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The latest issue (volume 21, issue 1) of the IEET’s Journal of Evolution and Technology, devoted to Nietzsche and European posthumanisms, is now complete. This issue takes off in response to an article on Nietzsche and transhumanism by Stefan Sorgner, published in March last year; it contains a mix of full articles and shorter responses by William Sims Bainbridge, Max More, and others.

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As the concept of geoengineering moves from the fringe toward the mainstream, it is beginning to generate some lively arguments. We’ve rounded up links to some of the latest point-counterpoint melee.

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The attitudes of IEET readers toward spending time in a future idealized version of virtual reality cover a broad spectrum, from very little interest to a readiness for 100% immersion.

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A brief update on some of our busy fellows.

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We are pleased to announce the appointment of V.R. Manoj as an Affiliate Scholar of the IEET.

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More than half of those who responded to a recently concluded poll of IEET readers expect to be alive in the year 2100, aided by one or more forms of advanced technology.

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