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George Dvorsky

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 (Yale University, New Haven, CT USA - Dec 06, 2013)


Recent Multimedia


Countering Objections to Mind Uploading   2013-05-06

Designer psychologies: Moving beyond neurotypicality - Humanity+ @Parsons 2011   2013-04-08

Lightning Talks Panel - Humanity+ @Parsons 2011   2013-04-07

Extinction Level Event   2013-02-27

Covering the Future Beat: Managing Futureshock when Writing for a Mass Audience   2013-02-15

Journalism, Human Enhancement & The Singularity   2013-01-18

Engineering human evolution   2012-03-31

Sentient Developments Podcast: Episode 2012.03.05   2012-03-09

George Dvorsky on Singularity 1 on 1: Specialization is for Insects   2012-03-01

Sentient Developments Podcast: Episode 2012.02.20   2012-02-27


News


Top Hitting Articles for November (Nov 29, 2012)

George Dvorsky is now a Contributing Editor at io9 (Jun 03, 2012)

George Dvorksy offers Online Seminar on Transhumanism (Apr 27, 2012)

George Dvorsky guest blogging on io9 (Apr 26, 2012)

NASA contacts George Dvorsky about his Dyson Sphere concept (Apr 06, 2012)

George Dvorsky interviewed by “The Future and You” (Mar 09, 2012)

New IEET Program Promotes Idea of the “Non-Human Person” (Feb 11, 2011)

Dvorsky on “The Future of Humans” (Oct 05, 2010)

Uncertainty About Alien Threats (May 26, 2010)

Large Hadron Collider Working Again (Nov 21, 2009)

David Brin guestblogging at George’s Sentient Developments (Mar 20, 2009)

Neuroscientist David Eagleman guest blogging on George’s Blog next week (Feb 12, 2009)

Update on Humanity+ Board Elections (Jan 16, 2009)

Humanity+ Board Elections (Jan 12, 2009)

George gets io9ed and Metafiltered (Dec 20, 2008)

George’s posts on Convergence 08 (Nov 19, 2008)

George’s notes on Cyborg Buddha presentation at Convergence (Nov 16, 2008)

Convergence08: Opening panel on AI (Nov 16, 2008)

Reports from Global Catastrophic Risks conference in Mountain View CA (Nov 16, 2008)

Ashley X’s Parents Declare Treatment a Success (Mar 16, 2008)

George Wins Three 2008 Blogisattva Awards (Feb 25, 2008)

Announcing the next phase of Betterhumans (Nov 14, 2007)

IEET featured in New York Times article on cyborg athletes (May 15, 2007)

Betterhumans Relaunching With IEET Columnists (Apr 07, 2007)

IEET Launches Cyborg Buddha Project (Mar 25, 2007)

Dvorsky’s blog wins Blogisattva awards (Feb 27, 2007)

Dvorsky’s Sentient Developments Nominated as a Top Buddhist Blog (Jan 31, 2007)

Techno-cultural literacy in 2007 (Dec 31, 2006)

Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness features IEET uplift paper (Nov 16, 2006)

de Grey’s SENS research program survives TR/Pontin’s challenge (Jul 11, 2006)

HETHR Reviews (Jun 06, 2006)

IEET Board member now podcasting Sentient Developments (Jan 16, 2006)


Past Appearances


George Dvorsky on Al Jazeeera (Al Jazeera - Mar 28, 2012)

George Dvorsky on Skeptically Speaking (CJSR FM88.5, Edmonton, Alberta - Jun 25, 2010)

Hughes, Dvorsky, deGrey, Goertzel, Vita-More, Lin and Naam @ H+ Summit (Cambridge, MA - Jun 12, 2010)

George Dvorsky on “Introduction to Transhumanism” (Buffalo, NY - May 28, 2010)

Dvorsky @ Science vs. Faith Debate (Toronto, Canada - Apr 18, 2009)

Hughes, LaTorra, Fauve, Cascio, Treder @ Convergence 08 (Mountain View, California - Nov 15, 2008)

GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization (Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA - Nov 14, 2008)

Dvorsky on “Should science shape the modern athlete?” (Toronto, Canada - Sep 26, 2008)

George on Transhumanism and Life Extension (Toronto, Canada - Apr 18, 2008)

George on “Cyborgs of the Past, Present and Future” (Mississauga, Canada - Jan 31, 2008)

Chat with George Dvorsky at ImmINst (Virtual - Nov 18, 2007)

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