George Dvorsky

George Dvorsky serves on the Board of Directors for the IEET. George is Canada’s leading agenda-driven futurist/activist and an award winning blogger, George writes and speaks widely about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology. He 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.

Home Page: http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/

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Blogs

Sentient Developments

A World Without Suffering?

Guest blogger David Pearce answers your questions (part 3)

Much ado about swine flu

Bailey: Transhumanism and the Limits of Democracy

Guest blogger David Pearce answers your questions (part 2)

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Articles

"Exploring transhumanist themes in Battlestar Galactica: Caprica"   Sentient Developments  Jun 30, 2009

"Transhumanism and the ‘Intelligence Principle’"   Sentient Developments  Jun 23, 2009

"“Keeping an Open Mind is a Virtue, but not so Open that Your Brains Fall Out.”"   Astrogator's Logs  Jun 15, 2009

"Existential Movie War"   Ethical Technology  Jun 8, 2009

"The Top 10 Existential Movies of All Time"   Sentient Developments  Jun 7, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 5: Simulation taxonomy"   Sentient Developments  Jun 4, 2009

"A World Without Suffering?"   Sentient Developments  May 2, 2009

"What is a Person?"   Sentient Developments  Apr 28, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 4: Kurzweil’s nano neural nets"   Sentient Developments  Apr 17, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 3: The Simulation Argument"   Sentient Developments  Apr 10, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 2: Descartes’s malicious demon"   Sentient Developments  Apr 9, 2009

"Welcome to the Machine, Part 1: The ethics of simulated beings"   Sentient Developments  Apr 9, 2009

"Aldous Huxley on Cognitive Liberty in 1958"   Sentient Developments  Apr 2, 2009

"The perils of nuclear disarmament: How relinquishment could result in disaster"   Sentient Developments  Mar 31, 2009

"When superheros run amok: Exploring posthuman and technological themes in Watchmen"   Sentient Developments  Mar 30, 2009

"What is “Uplift?”"   Sentient Developments  Mar 24, 2009

"Risks posed by political extremism"   Sentient Developments  Mar 19, 2009

"Futurist thinking at the Pentagon"   Sentient Developments  Mar 18, 2009

"The ‘Rare Earth’ delusion"   Sentient Developments  Mar 8, 2009

"The Immaculate Designer Prosthesis"   Sentient Developments  Feb 23, 2009

"Demand for human trait selection creates a market"   Sentient Developments  Feb 17, 2009

"When 8 is more than enough: It’s time for some meaningful regulation"   Sentient Developments  Feb 2, 2009

"Rethinking IQ: The rise of ‘rational intelligence’"   Sentient Developments  Feb 1, 2009

"Most parents not quite ready to have ‘designer babies’—but demand exists"   Sentient Developments  Jan 28, 2009

"Towards a ‘largely robotic’ battlefield"   Sentient Developments  Jan 19, 2009

"We Have the Technology to Rebuild Ourselves"     Jan 9, 2009

"Pleasure’s perils: Why the ‘sex chip’ may not be such a good idea"   Sentient Developments  Jan 3, 2009

"Future risks and the challenge to democracy"     Dec 24, 2008

"Most people favor reproductive technologies—but not sex selection"   Sentient Developments  Dec 18, 2008

"Commission warns of nuclear or biological weapons attack by 2013"   Sentient Developments  Dec 5, 2008

"Aspergers as Gift"   Sentient Developments  Nov 27, 2008

"Deep brain stimulation induces vivid memories"   Sentient Developments  Nov 23, 2008

"Terry Grossman wants to help you to live forever"   Sentient Developments  Nov 21, 2008

"An Obama reality check"   Sentient Developments  Nov 7, 2008

"Republican calls for Palin in 2012 reveal a deep malaise"   Sentient Developments  Nov 6, 2008

"Humans have not stopped evolving"   Sentient Developments  Oct 15, 2008

"Michael Phelps: ‘Naturally’ transhuman"   Sentient Developments  Aug 19, 2008

"Of dead race horses and the dead long-ball: Two very different consequences of enhancement in sports"   Sentient Developments  Jun 1, 2008

"Why I think Pistorius should not be allowed to compete at the Olympics"   Sentient Developments  May 19, 2008

"The Singularity is not what you think"   Sentient Developments  May 14, 2008

"Sorry ladies, the male birth control pill is not about you"   Sentient Developments  May 1, 2008

"Nick Bostrom: “Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.”"   Sentient Developments  Apr 28, 2008

"Eight tips to dramatically improve your chances of living forever"   Sentient Developments  Apr 2, 2008

"Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary (IEET White Paper 03)"   IEET White Paper Series  Mar 20, 2008

"Elliot Spitzer: Only a Human Male"   Sentient Developments  Mar 17, 2008

"Seven ways to control the Galaxy with self-replicating probes"   Sentient Developments  Mar 6, 2008

"Popular Arguments For and Against Longevity"   Future Current  Mar 5, 2008

"Prosthetics-a-gogo"   Sentient Developments  Feb 24, 2008

"Marquis de Condorcet, Enlightenment proto-transhumanist"   Sentient Developments  Jan 26, 2008

"Overcoming Gender"   Sentient Developments  Jan 6, 2008

"Hitchens gets it wrong about Buddhism"   Sentient Developments  Oct 10, 2007

"Sovereignty and the problem of political relativism: Why we need a world without borders"   Sentient Developments  Sep 25, 2007

"Storm Botnet storms the Net"   Sentient Developments  Sep 24, 2007

"Tarkovsky’s Solaris"   Sentient Developments  Sep 15, 2007

"Martine’s mindfiles"   Sentient Developments  Aug 23, 2007

"The dark side of the Simulation Argument"   Sentient Developments  Aug 16, 2007

"The Fermi Paradox: Advanced civilizations do not…"   Sentient Developments  Aug 6, 2007

"Anders Sandberg wants to emulate your brain"   Sentient Developments  Aug 1, 2007

"Crafting the practical case for life extension in Chicago"   Sentient Developments  Aug 1, 2007

"Blessed are the doomsayers"   Sentient Developments  Jun 30, 2007

"If aliens wanted to, they would have destroyed us by now"   Sentient Developments  Jun 27, 2007

"Canadian couples discover sex selection loophole"   Sentient Developments  Jun 24, 2007

"Stross: Space colonization is not in our future"   Sentient Developments  Jun 19, 2007

"The Drake Equation is obsolete"   Sentient Developments  May 31, 2007

"How will our Universe die?"   Sentient Developments  May 25, 2007

"How not to prepare for an alien invasion"   Sentient Developments  Apr 29, 2007

"Why the discovery of a nearby Earth-like planet is bad news"   Sentient Developments  Apr 26, 2007

"Is the world ready for cyborg athletes?"   Sentient Developments  Apr 25, 2007

"‘Jesus Camp’ and the art of brainwashing children"   Sentient Developments  Apr 7, 2007

"Facebook and the ongoing demise of anonymity"   Sentient Developments  Mar 30, 2007

"Managing your 50,000 daily thoughts"   Sentient Developments  Mar 19, 2007

"Bailey on Fukuyama’s ‘eugenics’"   Sentient Developments  Mar 10, 2007

"Second Life’s in-world terrorism and the struggle for digital rights"   Sentient Developments  Mar 1, 2007

"Neugenic Nation"   Sentient Developments  Feb 23, 2007

"The right to be wrong: tolerating Holocaust deniers and global warming skeptics"   Sentient Developments  Feb 14, 2007

"The perils of a digital life"   Sentient Developments  Feb 8, 2007

"When parents endanger kids because of faith-based medicine"   Sentient Developments  Feb 4, 2007

"Why there should be an X Prize for an artificial biosphere"   Sentient Developments  Feb 2, 2007

"Revisiting the day the Earth stood still"   Sentient Developments  Jan 30, 2007

"Certain minds and certain bodies"   Sentient Developments  Jan 28, 2007

"Just say no to mind controlling parasites"   Sentient Developments  Jan 25, 2007

"Doomsday clock moved ahead due to climate and biotech"   Sentient Developments  Jan 24, 2007

"“You are the platform”"   Sentient Developments  Jan 21, 2007

"Nanotechnology Will Reshape Humanity"   Beliefnet  Jan 17, 2007

"Transhumanist jobs of the future"   Sentient Developments  Jan 16, 2007

"Must-know terms for the 21st Century intellectual: Redux"   Sentient Developments  Jan 14, 2007

"Star Trek’s ‘Prime Directive’ is stupid"   Sentient Developments  Jan 13, 2007

"Ashley X story hitting prime time"   Sentient Developments  Jan 5, 2007

"Cheating vs. enhancement in chess"   Sentient Developments  Dec 29, 2006

"I ain’t givin’ up on sleep"   Sentient Developments  Dec 16, 2006

"Aronofsky’s pro-death ‘Fountain’"   Sentient Developments  Dec 11, 2006

"The future of chess"   Sentient Developments  Dec 8, 2006

"Of philosopher kings and diminishing dictators"   Sentient Developments  Nov 25, 2006

"Uplift imperialism?"   Sentient Developments  Nov 14, 2006

"US accountability in Iraq"   Sentient Developments  Nov 9, 2006

"Helping families care for the helpless"   Sentient Developments  Nov 6, 2006

"Martin Rees tackles the simulation argument"   Sentient Developments  Nov 1, 2006

"Is IBM’s Blue Brain project a precursor to an AI project?"   Sentient Developments  Oct 30, 2006

"Review of Darren Aronofsky’s “PI”"   Sentient Developments  Oct 28, 2006

"Does the brain tap into the future?"   Sentient Developments  Oct 26, 2006