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George Dvorsky serves as Chair of the IEET Board of Directors and also heads our Rights of Non-Human Persons program. As Canada’s leading agenda-driven futurist/activist and an award-winning blogger, he writes and speaks widely about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology.
George is the Director of Operations for Commune Media , an advertising and marketing firm that specializes in marketing science. He is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and served on the Board of Directors for the Humanity Plus from 2004-06. George was the organizing chair for TransVision 2004, an international conference addressing the scientific, political and social issues surrounding human biotechnology.
George has been interviewed by such publications as The Guardian , the BBC, Radio Free Europe, and Beliefnet. He made an appearance on the CBC’s The Hour and has been profiled in NOW and This Magazine . He has also written for such publications as The Humanist, Canadian Freethinker, Cryonics Magazine and various Thomson & Gale university texts. He is also an accomplished music performer, composer and recording engineer.
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Articles
"Here’s the Real Reason Why Virtual Reality Doesn’t Work Yet" io9
May 17, 2013
"Do these startling longevity studies mean your lifespan could double?" io9
May 13, 2013
"How to Build an Artificial Womb" io9
Apr 24, 2013
"New Interface Allows Humans to Move a Rat’s Tail With Their Thoughts" io9
Apr 15, 2013
"Are Women Having Too Many C-Sections in the United States?" io9
Apr 9, 2013
"Is it time we got over the taboo against human enhancement?" io9
Apr 8, 2013
"How Much Longer Until Humanity Becomes A Hive Mind?" io9
Mar 18, 2013
"This wireless brain implant could make telekinesis a reality" io9
Mar 14, 2013
"Scientists Enhance Intelligence of Mice with Human Brain Cells" io9
Mar 11, 2013
"Mississippi Officially Bans Slavery at Last" io9
Feb 25, 2013
"I’m Elyn Saks and this is what it’s like to live with schizophrenia" io9
Feb 15, 2013
"7 Best-Case Scenarios for the Future of Humanity" Sentient Developments
Feb 3, 2013
"Why getting physically stronger will help you live longer" Sentient Developments
Feb 1, 2013
"It Could Be A War Crime To Use Biologically Enhanced Soldiers" io9
Jan 24, 2013
"Bruce Sterling Thinks Artificial Intelligence Has Jumped the Shark" io9
Jan 19, 2013
"Should we eliminate the human ability to feel pain?" sentientdevelopments.com
Jan 12, 2013
"The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational" io9.com
Jan 10, 2013
"Why We Should Let the Robots Take Over" io9
Jan 1, 2013
"When will we finally have a world government?" io9
Dec 24, 2012
"#11 How to build a Dyson sphere in five (relatively) easy steps" Sentient Developments
Dec 21, 2012
"#15 Why Humanists Need to Make the Shift to Post-Atheism" Ethical Technology
Dec 17, 2012
"Other Solar Systems Might Be More Habitable Than Ours" io9
Dec 11, 2012
"Everything You Need to Know About the American Psychiatric Association’s Updated Guidelines" io9
Dec 8, 2012
"The Top 10 Claims Made by Creationists to Counter Scientific Theories" io9
Dec 7, 2012
"Live-Blogging the Morning of Day Two of Humanity+ San Francisco" Ethical Technology
Dec 2, 2012
"Live-Blogging the Afternoon of Day One of Humanity+ San Francisco" Ethical Technology
Dec 1, 2012
"Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system to monitor women’s movements" io9
Nov 27, 2012
"The emerging science of collective intelligence and the rise of the global brain" io9
Nov 24, 2012
"10 supplements you can take today to enhance your intelligence" io9
Nov 23, 2012
"How modern technologies made the fighting in Gaza even worse" io9.com
Nov 22, 2012
"Researchers interact with rats by becoming virtual rats themselves" Ethical Technology
Nov 2, 2012
"Existence, Uplift, and Science News" Sentient Developments
Oct 28, 2012
"Nine Historical Figures Who May Have Predicted Our Future" io9.com
Oct 9, 2012
"Should We Eliminate the Human Ability to Feel Pain?" io9.com
Oct 2, 2012
"Did Life on other Planets originate from Earth?" io9.com
Sep 29, 2012
"How to Live Forever By Turning Your Brain Into Plastic" io9.com
Sep 17, 2012
"Can Technology Help Us Put an End to Animal Experimentation?" io9.com
Sep 8, 2012
"Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness, Just Like Us" io9.com
Aug 25, 2012
"Billionaire Peter Thiel Invests in the Development of 3D Printed Meat" io9.com
Aug 23, 2012
"Would it be Boring if We could Live Forever?" io9.com
Aug 16, 2012
"How Autism is Changing the World for Everybody" io9.com
Jul 29, 2012
"Are Olympic Athletes Really Mutants?" io9.com
Jul 27, 2012
"Microscopic Machines could produce Medicine directly inside your Body" io9.com
Jul 18, 2012
"Will We Ever Learn to Speak Dolphin?" io9.com
Jul 12, 2012
"The Case Against Autonomous Killing Machines" io9.com
Jun 30, 2012
"Does a Galaxy filled with Habitable Planets mean Humanity is Doomed?" io9.com
Jun 25, 2012
"Why Eating like a Caveman May be the Way of the Future" io9.com
Jun 19, 2012
"Scientists Cure Ebola in Monkeys — and Humans could be Next" io9.com
Jun 17, 2012
"Could We Build a Weather Machine to Stop Climate Change?" io9.com
Jun 9, 2012
"Are Humans Becoming More or Less Psychopathic?" Sentient Developments
May 19, 2012
"Why Humanists Need to Make the Shift to Post-Atheism" Sentient Developments
May 15, 2012
"Could a single pill save your marriage?" io9
May 13, 2012
"How Will We Build an Artificial Human Brain?" io9
May 6, 2012
"Will Sweden abolish the concept of gender?" io9.com
May 3, 2012
"Beaming solar power to Earth with satellites" Sentient Developments
Apr 19, 2012
"Gender Selection in Canada: No Easy Answers" Sentient Developments
Apr 16, 2012
"The Psychopaths Among Us" Sentient Developments
Apr 12, 2012
"Moral Brain Conference Summary with Twitter Round-up" Sentient Developments
Apr 6, 2012
"J. Hughes on democratic transhumanism, personhood, and AI" Sentient Developments
Mar 31, 2012
"How to build a Dyson sphere in five (relatively) easy steps" Sentient Developments
Mar 29, 2012
"Creatine for Mind, Body, and Longer Life" Hplusmagazine
Mar 21, 2012
"When the Turing Test is Not Enough" Sentient Developments
Mar 9, 2012
"PETA loses its case against SeaWorld" Sentient Developments
Feb 27, 2012
"PETA names plaintiffs in their suit against SeaWorld: Five Orca Whales" Sentient Developments
Feb 11, 2012
"Video-gaming Pets, the Future of Nonhuman Animals, and Cultural Uplift" Wanderlust
Jan 27, 2012
"Report: Chimps ‘largely unessential as research subjects’" Sentient Developments
Dec 31, 2011
"Dysonian Approach to SETI: A Fruitful Middle Ground" JBIS 64: 156-165
Dec 1, 2011
"Is the Adderall shortage on account of rampant off-label use?" Sentient Developments
Dec 1, 2011
"Propaganda 2.0 and the Rise of ‘Narrative Networks’" Sentient Developments
Oct 19, 2011
"Exploring the potential for alternative worlds at Burning Man" Sentient Developments
Sep 17, 2011
"On the Pernicious De-Radicalization of the Radical Future" Sentient Developments
Aug 23, 2011
"“Careful. Human no like smart ape.”" Sentient Developments
Aug 13, 2011
"The Ethics of Animal Enhancement" Sentient Developments
Jul 29, 2011
"Hear that? It’s the Singularity coming" Sentient Developments
Jul 3, 2011
"Primal Transhumanism" Sentient Developments
Jun 9, 2011
"Designer Psychologies: Moving Beyond Neurotypicality" Sentient Developments
May 29, 2011
"“Transhumanism Meets Design” Conference Recap: Beyond enhancement" Sentient Developments
May 27, 2011
"Criticism of the IEET’s Rights of Non-Human Persons Program" Sentient Developments
May 5, 2011
"Revisiting Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “We” (1921)" Sentient Developments
Apr 6, 2011
"Mourning the Death of Her Baby" Sentient Developments
Mar 30, 2011
"What do we mean by the “rights” of the nonhuman person?" Sentient Developments
Mar 22, 2011
"Remembering Robert Bradbury" Sentient Developments
Mar 6, 2011
"Putting an End to Dolphin Exploitation at Aquatic Theme Parks" Sentient Developments
Feb 21, 2011
"SAI in the Material World" Sentient Developments
Feb 9, 2011
"Genetic Architecture" Sentient Developments
Jan 25, 2011
"#1: Why Stephen Hawking—and everyone else—is wrong about alien threats" Ethical Technology
Dec 31, 2010
"#3: Five Reasons the Copenhagen Climate Conference Failed" Ethical Technology
Dec 30, 2010
"Not So Superficial: Rethinking cosmetic enhancements" Sentient Developments
Dec 20, 2010
"How to Engineer a Zombie Virus" Sentient Developments
Dec 18, 2010
"#21: There’s More to Singularity Studies Than Kurzweil" Ethical Technology
Dec 11, 2010
"Final Transforming Humanity talk: Can Humanity Survive Evolutionary Engineering?" Ethical Technology
Dec 4, 2010
"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference: Emerging Tech, Hybrid Mice and Smart Drugs" Ethical Technology
Dec 4, 2010
"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference: Neuroethics and Biopolitics" Ethical Technology
Dec 4, 2010
"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference: The Left Bio-Cons Open Fire" Ethical Technology
Dec 4, 2010
"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference Day 1 Part 2" Ethical Technology
Dec 3, 2010
"Live-blogging from the Transforming Humanity Conference Day 1 Part 1" Ethical Technology
Dec 3, 2010
"A leftist reaction to the commercialization of space" Sentient Developments
Nov 21, 2010
"The financial time bomb of longer lives?" Sentient Developments
Nov 18, 2010
"Revisiting the proto-transhumanists: Diderot and Condorcet" Sentient Developments
Nov 11, 2010
"The quantified self: 6 tools to help you get started" Sentient Developments
Nov 6, 2010
Upcoming Appearances
Rights for NonHuman Persons Recent Multimedia
Countering Objections to Mind Uploading
Designer psychologies: Moving beyond neurotypicality - Humanity+ @Parsons 2011
Lightning Talks Panel - Humanity+ @Parsons 2011
Extinction Level Event
Covering the Future Beat: Managing Futureshock when Writing for a Mass Audience
Journalism, Human Enhancement & The Singularity
Engineering human evolution
Sentient Developments Podcast: Episode 2012.03.05
George Dvorsky on Singularity 1 on 1: Specialization is for Insects
Sentient Developments Podcast: Episode 2012.02.20 News
Top Hitting Articles for November George Dvorsky is now a Contributing Editor at io9 George Dvorksy offers Online Seminar on Transhumanism George Dvorsky guest blogging on io9 NASA contacts George Dvorsky about his Dyson Sphere concept George Dvorsky interviewed by “The Future and You” New IEET Program Promotes Idea of the “Non-Human Person” Dvorsky on “The Future of Humans” Uncertainty About Alien Threats Large Hadron Collider Working Again David Brin guestblogging at George’s Sentient Developments Neuroscientist David Eagleman guest blogging on George’s Blog next week Update on Humanity+ Board Elections Humanity+ Board Elections George gets io9ed and Metafiltered George’s posts on Convergence 08 George’s notes on Cyborg Buddha presentation at Convergence Convergence08: Opening panel on AI Reports from Global Catastrophic Risks conference in Mountain View CA Ashley X’s Parents Declare Treatment a Success George Wins Three 2008 Blogisattva Awards Announcing the next phase of Betterhumans IEET featured in New York Times article on cyborg athletes Betterhumans Relaunching With IEET Columnists IEET Launches Cyborg Buddha Project Dvorsky’s blog wins Blogisattva awards Dvorsky’s Sentient Developments Nominated as a Top Buddhist Blog Techno-cultural literacy in 2007 Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness features IEET uplift paper de Grey’s SENS research program survives TR/Pontin’s challenge HETHR Reviews IEET Board member now podcasting Sentient Developments Past Appearances
George Dvorsky on Al Jazeeera George Dvorsky on Skeptically Speaking Hughes, Dvorsky, deGrey, Goertzel, Vita-More, Lin and Naam @ H+ Summit George Dvorsky on “Introduction to Transhumanism” Dvorsky @ Science vs. Faith Debate Hughes, LaTorra, Fauve, Cascio, Treder @ Convergence 08 GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization Dvorsky on “Should science shape the modern athlete?” George on Transhumanism and Life Extension George on “Cyborgs of the Past, Present and Future” Chat with George Dvorsky at ImmINst
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