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All the Global Catastrophic Risks Talks Online

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Aspirational Futurism, Uncertainty and Resilience

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Nick on 'Aspirational Futurism, Uncertainty and Resilience' (2009 01 04)

Devkumar Trivedi on 'A True Cure for Human Aging' (2009 01 04)

Christopher Harris on 'Pleasure's perils: Why the 'sex chip' may not be such a good idea' (2009 01 04)

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Bill Gates, 1981





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IEET News Feed

[ieet] Mehlman: Human subjects protections in biomedical enhancement research

[ieet] WaPo: Why predictions are often wrong

[ieet] Howe & Jackson on geo-politics of graying world

[ieet] Annalee on SF & futurism in bad times



Longevity Dividend List

[life] Howe & Jackson on geo-politics of graying world

[life] Morris Johnson's 2009 new year's resolution

Re: [life] The medicalization of Anti-aging , my 2009 new year's resolution ... from morris johnson

[life] The medicalization of Anti-aging , my 2009 new year's resolution ... from morris johnson

[life] Are Older People Happier?

[life] Right is worried US will love universal health care too much



Existential Risks List

[x-risk] Fwd: Onion: Breakthrough To Fix Problems Of Previous Breakthrough

[x-risk] Onion: Breakthrough To Fix Problems Of Previous Breakthrough

[x-risk] Survey finds growing support for geo-engineering

[x-risk] WaPo: Report by 32 Scientists Point to Faster Climate Change

[x-risk] Getting serious about the threat of nuclear terrorism

[x-risk] Onion: Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider May Destroy Earth



Biopolitics of Popular Culture List

[images] Annalee on SF & futurism in bad times

[images] FW: 4th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction

[images] Transagriculture: Life & Art

[images] CFP - SuperHuman - Melbourne Aus - Nov 22-25, 2009

[images] CFP: Steampunk, Science, and (Neo)Victorian Technologies

[images] Montreal play about transhumanism



Trans-Spirit List

TM reduces stress of ADHD

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura - H+ Buddhist?

Risk-taking - It's the Dopamine

How Can Mindfulness Increase Health or Happiness?

Rule-breaking gene increases popularity

Brain Activity Altered during Religious Experience



Technoprogressive List

Santa Fight

Is Marxism still relevant?

Is Marxism still relevant?

Re: Robert Ingersoll's "What I Want For Christmas" (1897)

Re: Robert Ingersoll's "What I Want For Christmas" (1897)

Re: Robert Ingersoll's "What I Want For Christmas" (1897)


Upcoming Events   (Past Events in Archive)
With IEET Speakers

Year

Date

Where

Event

2009 Mar 6-9 Arlington, Virginia Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09.org)
2009 Mar 13-15 Salzburg, Austria Kristi @ Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues
2009 Jun 8-9 Detroit, Michigan, USA Aubrey @ HealthQuake summit
2009 Jun 15 Hong Kong, China Goertzel @ Workshop on Machine Consciousness
2009 Jun 17-19 Toronto, Canada Aubrey @ IdeaCity
2009 Jun 23-25 Cambridge, UK Aubrey @ FutureFest 2009
2009 Jul 8-10 Enschede, The Netherlands Bostrom @ Converging Tech and Philosophy
2009 Sep 4-7 Cambridge, UK Aubrey @ SENS4
All Events

Year

When

Where

Event

2009 Jan 13-15 Santa Ana Pueblo (Albuquerque), New Mexico Decade of the Mind
2009 Feb 12-16 American Association for the Advancement of Science
2009 Feb 27-1 New York City, NY USA US Basic Income Guarantee Congress
2009 Mar 6-9 Arlington, Virginia Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09.org)
2009 Mar 6-7 Ghent, Belgium Tickle Your Catastrophe!
2009 Mar 13-14 Harvard University, Cambridge MA USA Bioethics: The New Issues
2009 Mar 13-15 Salzburg, Austria Kristi @ Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues
2009 Apr 1-5 Portland, Oregon Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
2009 Apr 16-18 New South Wales, Australia Somatechnics: The Technologisation of Bodies and Selves
2009 May 14-16 University of Oregon Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering
2009 Jun 8-9 Detroit, Michigan, USA Aubrey @ HealthQuake summit
2009 Jun 11-14 Hong Kong, China Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009
2009 Jun 15 Hong Kong, China Goertzel @ Workshop on Machine Consciousness
2009 Jun 17-19 Toronto, Canada Aubrey @ IdeaCity
2009 Jun 18-21 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA First World Congress on Positive Psychology
2009 Jun 21-23 Lago Maggiore, Verbania-Intra, Italy CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology Conference (CT14)
2009 Jun 23-25 Cambridge, UK Aubrey @ FutureFest 2009
2009 Jul 2-4 Edinburgh, Scotland Ethics for the 21st Century
2009 Jul 2-4 Barcelona, Spain Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies
2009 Jul 3-5 Melbourne, Australia Metaphysics of Science
2009 Jul 6-8 Oxford, UK Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
2009 Jul 8-10 Enschede, The Netherlands Bostrom @ Converging Tech and Philosophy
2009 Jul 18-22 Veronda, VR. Italy Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
2009 Aug 5-7 Cambridge University, United Kingdom Science in Society
2009 Sep 4-7 Cambridge, UK Aubrey @ SENS4
2009 Sep 16-18 London, UK Politics of the Life Sciences in an ‘Age of Biological Control’

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