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Technoprogressive? BioConservative? Huh?
Quick overview of biopolitical points of view
Kripa on 'Sorry ladies, the male birth control pill is not about you ' (2008 11 16)
Kripa on 'Sorry ladies, the male birth control pill is not about you ' (2008 11 16)
Pope Salmon the Lesser Mungojelly on 'Libertopian Doublethink on the Singularity ' (2008 11 16)
steve on 'Sorry ladies, the male birth control pill is not about you ' (2008 11 15)
Find the truth on 'Sorry ladies, the male birth control pill is not about you ' (2008 11 15)
Percent of 'working-age' adults employed in 2050 in Europe and N. America ( surveys )
Sam G : Transhumanism (1)
jake : Irresitible (1)
extropian.pharmer : 11-Rapture book review and Longevity Dividend capstone paper (18)
Oscar : Need a manufacturer for my nutritional supplements range of products!!! (3)
Stuart Ballard : Empowerment enhances cognition (1)
"The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow."H.G. Wells
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Events Archive (Click Here for Upcoming Events)
Year
When
Where
Event
2008
Nov 17
UCSC Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA USA
Hughes on “BioPolitics and the Technoprogressive Agenda: Yes We Can!”
2008
Nov 15-16
Mountain View, California
Hughes, LaTorra, Fauve, Cascio, Treder @ Convergence 08
2008
Nov 13-15
Heidelberg, Germany
Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self
2008
Nov 13-15
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Autonomy Singularity Creativity: What Does “Human” Mean?
2008
Nov 14
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization
2008
Nov 13-14
Washington, DC
Neuroethics Society meeting
2008
Nov 11-14
Boulder, Colorado, USA
11th Annual Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference for Education,
2008
Nov 10-12
London, England.
Philosophy and Engineering
2008
Nov 10
London, UK
de Grey, Miah, Warwick on Enhancing the Body
2008
Nov 7-9
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Aubrey @ Summit on the Global Agenda
2008
Nov 6-8
Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
Implanted Mind? The Neuroethics of Intracerebral Stem Cell Transplantation
2008
Nov 5
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Happiness and The Meaning of Life
2008
Nov 1-3
Chicago, IL USA
H+ & Religion session at American Academy of Religion
2008
Oct 29-2
Portland, Maine
Society for Utopian Studies
2008
Oct 30
Liverpool, UK
Miah, Blackford @ Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty
2008
Oct 27
Lucerne, Switzerland
Aubrey @ European Futurists’ Conf
2008
Oct 23-26
Cleveland, OH, USA
Bioethics Futurism - Am Soc for Bioethics and Humanities
2008
Oct 25
Second Life
Gender Freedom Day in Digital Worlds
2008
Oct 25
San Jose, CA, USA
Brain, Goertzel @ Singularity Summit 2008
2008
Oct 24
San Jose, CA, USA
Cascio @ SciVestor Emerging Technologies Workshop
2008
Oct 20-21
Blackstone, Virginia USA
Hughes @ Science, Christianity & the New Frontiers of Human Life
2008
Oct 21
Stanford University, California
Aubrey @ Stanford Transhumanist Association
2008
Oct 16-20
Hyderbad, India
World Academy of Art And Science
2008
Oct 20
San Francisco, CA USA
Aubrey at San Fran JCC
2008
Oct 16
Hartford, CT USA
The Ethics of Human-Animal Chimera Research: Fact or Fiction
2008
Oct 14
London, UK
Andy @ The Role of the Arts in Democratic Policy Making
2008
Oct 13
Nick on Enhancing the Brain
2008
Oct 9-10
Tallinn, Estonia
Aubrey @ International Workshop on Postponing Ageing
2008
Oct 10
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA
Hughes on “Gene Therapy and Neurotechnologies to Enhance Human Virtues”
2008
Oct 6-8
Dallas, Texas USA
Psychiatry and Freedom
2008
Sep 30-1
Glasgow, Scotland
Andy on ET Ethics @ The Futures of Space Exploration
2008
Oct 1
Brussels, Belgium
Aubrey on SENS
2008
Sep 25-26
Bogotá, Colombia
International Congress of AI & Nano
2008
Sep 26
Toronto, Canada
Dvorsky on “Should science shape the modern athlete?”
2008
Sep 22-25
Oxford, UK
Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
2008
Sep 25
Phoenix, AZ USA
Aubrey @ Kronos Longevity Research Institute
2008
Sep 22
Cambridge, MA USA
Aubrey on Strategy for the Future
2008
Sep 19-21
NYC, NY USA
Psychedelics Forum
2008
Sep 18
Hartford, CT USA
Creating Ethically Sensitive Machines for Medical Use
2008
Sep 8-12
Waterloo, Ontario Canada
Science in the 21st Century
2008
Sep 3-8
Rijeka and Opatija, Croatia
9th World Congress of Bioethics
2008
Sep 7
Menlo Park, CA
Goertzel on “OpenCog Prime: Design for an Open-Source Thinking Machine”
2008
Sep 3-5
San Sebastian, Spain
Treder @ Basque Country Program on Globalization
2008
Sep 1-3
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Building Resilience
2008
Sep 2
National Geographic Channel
Hughes on The Future of Death
2008
Aug 28
Paris, France
Giulio on Nano @ Nano Veritas
2008
Aug 23
Torrington Square, London, UK
Heather Bradshaw @ Enhancing minds: the pros and cons of hi-tech methods for improving cognition
2008
Aug 17-22
Big Sky, MT
Governing Emerging Technologies
2008
Aug 2-7
Montreal, Canada
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
2008
Jul 30-5
Seoul, South Korea
International Philosophical Congress
2008
Jul 26-28
Washington, DC
Goertzel, Treder @ World Future Society
2008
Jul 18-22
Barcelona, Spain
EuroScience Open Forum
2008
Jul 20
Terasem Island in SecondLife
Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop
2008
Jul 20
Terasem Island, Second Life
Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop
2008
Jul 17-20
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Hughes, Bostrom, Treder, Cirkovic @ Global Catastrophic Risks Conference
2008
Jul 12
Birkbeck College, London, UK
Aubrey on Living longer and longer yet healthier and healthier
2008
Jul 1-3
Oxford UK
Kristi Scott @ Visions of the Human in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
2008
Jun 26-29
Berkeley, CA USA
Online Deliberation and Advanced Computing
2008
Jun 27-29
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Aubrey @ Aging 2008
2008
Jun 18-20
Delft, Netherlands
Ethics, Technology and Identity
2008
Jun 15-18
Cleveland
Neural Interfaces Conference
2008
Jun 14
Toronto, Canada
Mark Walker on “Apocalyptic Threats and Happy Pills”
2008
Jun 6-8
Washington, DC
Hughes @ World Humanist Congress
2008
Jun 4-5
Second Life
Hughes, Bainbridge @ The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future
2008
May 26-28
Cape Town, South Africa
Reproductive Ethics
2008
May 22
New York City
Treder, Cascio @ SciVestor Disruptive Technologies Conference
2008
May 9-11
World of Warcraft
Bainbridge @ Convergence of the Real and the Virtual: First Scientific Conf in World of Warcraft
2008
May 9-10
Brussels, Belgium
Miah @ Enhancement Medicine
2008
May 8-9
London, UK
Miah @ Olympic Legacy Conference
2008
May 6-8
Brussels, Belgium
Knowledge Politics and Converging Technologies
2008
May 1-3
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Ethical, Legal, Social Implications of Genomics
2008
Apr 29
Thousand Oaks, CA
Jamais on Technologies, Social Transformation, Resillience and the Open Future
2008
Apr 29
Palo Alto, CA USA
Max More on Emerging Technologies
2008
Apr 23-26
Barcelona, Spain
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
2008
Apr 18
Toronto, Canada
George on Transhumanism and Life Extension
2008
Apr 17-18
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Hughes @ Evolution in the 21st Century
2008
Apr 16-18
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Assistive Technologies
2008
Apr 13-16
Cambridge, UK
Universal Access and Assistive Technology
2008
Apr 10-14
Paris, France
Aubrey @ Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress
2008
Apr 10-14
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Cognitive Aging
2008
Apr 8-12
Tucson, Arizona
Science of Consciousness 2008
2008
Mar 11
London, UK
Is cognitive enhancement a human right?
2008
Apr 9-11
Ås, Norway
In Vitro Meat Symposium
2008
Apr 2-3
Sheffield, UK
Surveillance in Everyday Life
2008
Mar 26
Yale, New Haven, CT USA
Bainbridge on Ethics in Virtual Worlds
2008
Mar 21-24
Basel, Switzerland
World Psychedelic Forum 2008
2008
Mar 23
Second Life
David Pearce in Second Life on Utopian Neuroscience
2008
Mar 16
Jerusalem, Israel
Ilia Stambler @ History and Philosophy of Science
2008
Mar 10-15
Northridge, California
Technology and Persons with Disabilities
2008
Mar 3-8
Phoenix, Arizona
Aubrey @ BioCon Conf Contra Life Extension
2008
Mar 3-6
San Diego, California
O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
2008
Mar 1-3
Memphis, US
First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
2008
Mar 1-2
Monterey, California
Aubrey @ BIL Uncoference
2008
Feb 29
Minneapolis, MN
Neurogenomics
2008
Feb 28
Palo Alto, CA USA
Jamais on Green Tomorrows @ Future Salon
2008
Feb 22-23
Orlando, Florida
Hughes @ Center for Inquiry
2008
Feb 20-23
St. Petersburg, Florida
Advancing Technology and Services to Promote Quality of Life
2008
Feb 12
London, UK
Miah on “A Case for Human Enhancement”
2008
Feb 12
San Francisco, CA
The Emerging Brain Fitness Market: Building Better Brains
2008
Feb 10-11
San Diego, CA USA
Jamais @ Green Campus Energy Efficiency Summit 2008
2008
Feb 9
San Francisco, CA USA
Jamais @ Writers with Drinks
2008
Feb 5
Berkeley, California USA
Jamais on Futurism and its Discontents
2008
Jan 31
Mississauga, Canada
George on “Cyborgs of the Past, Present and Future”
2008
Jan 29
Doug on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better - Edge.org
2008
Jan 26
Stanford University Law School
Technology in Wartime Conference
2008
Jan 9
Marlborough, CT
Hughes on Future Neurotech for Future Problem Solvers
2007
Dec 23
Global/Virtual
Hughes on FastForward Radio
2007
Dec 20
Virtual/Global
Green Tomorrows Webinar with Jamais
2007
Dec 10
Virtual
Rothblatt, Bainbridge & Glenn @ Terasem Colloquium on Transbeman Rights
2007
Dec 6-8
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Second Indian Bioethics Conference
2007
Dec 6-7
Berlin, Germany
Jamais@Metaverse Summit 2007
2007
Dec 3
London, UK
RSA Conf on Human Enhancement
2007
Dec 3
London, UK
Miah on Enhancement @ RSA
2007
Dec 2
Virtual
Chat With Jay Olshansky at the Immortality Institute
2007
Nov 30-1
Ghent, Belgium
Stem Cells and Artificial Reproductive Technologies
2007
Nov 30
Washington D.C.
Nanopolicy Conference
2007
Nov 29
Stanford, CA, USA and Spaceport Bravo, Second Life
Jamais on Metaverse Roadmap Overview
2007
Nov 19-21
Lucerne, Switzerland
European Futurists Conference
2007
Nov 16-20
San Francisco, CA, USA
Aubrey @ Era of Global Aging
2007
Nov 18
Virtual
Chat with George Dvorsky at ImmINst
2007
Nov 15-17
U of Calgary, Canada
Genetics, Human Rights and the Next Phase of Human Evolution
2007
Nov 16-17
Chicago, Illinois USA
Biocultures Graduate Student Conf
2007
Nov 15-17
Madrid, Spain
Miah @ WADA conf on sports doping
2007
Nov 15
St. Paul, Minnesota
Hughes @ Macalester College
2007
Nov 12-13
London, UK
Miah @ Launch of EuroNeuroSociety Launch
2007
Nov 8-10
Edmonton, Canada
Visions - National Health Law Conference
2007
Nov 6
Oxford, UK
Bostrom on Human Enhancement, Status Quo Bias, and the Reversal Test
2007
Nov 3-4
Sunnyvale, California, USA
Foresight Unconference on emerging tech
2007
Nov 2-3
Heidelberg, Germany
Hughes @ The Future of our Species - evolution, disease and sustainable development
2007
Nov 1-2
Berlin, Germany
Science and Ethics of ART
2007
Oct 30-2
Chicago
Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries and Beyond
2007
Nov 1
London, UK
Reproducing Regulation
2007
Oct 27
NY
Contemporary perspectives on psychedelics
2007
Oct 25
Oxford, UK
The Future of Humanity
2007
Oct 21-25
Beijing, China
Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics
2007
Oct 24
Paris, France
Hughes & François Berger on Human Enhancement
2007
Oct 24
Orlando, Florida
Ethics of of augmented cognition
2007
Oct 11-13
Deauville, France
Bostrom @ Women’s Forum
2007
Oct 12
Appleton, WI USA
Hughes @ Lawrence University
2007
Oct 4-6
Wash DC, USA
Global Well-Being Forum
2007
Oct 5
Liverpool, UK
Performance enhancing drugs
2007
Oct 3
Boston, MA USA
Hughes @ Stem Cell Summit
2007
Sep 28-29
London, UK
H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy
2007
Sep 19
Nottingham, UK
Between the Human and the Post-Human: Technology and Humanity
2007
Sep 15-18
Cardiff, UK
Ethics, philosophy and public health
2007
Sep 14
Manchester CT USA
Hughes addresses CT Assoc of Biology Teachers
2007
Sep 9-13
Tucson, Arizona, USA
CRNano Conference
2007
Sep 6-10
Cambridge, UK
Third Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence Conference
2007
Sep 8-9
San Francisco, CA USA
Hughes, Cascio @ Singularity Summit II
2007
Jul 29-31
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Treder@WorldFuture 2007
2007
Jul 24-27
Washington, D.C., USA
Generations United 14th International Conference
2007
Jul 24-26
Chicago, IL USA
Hughes, de Grey, Bostrom and more @ Transvision 2007
2007
Jul 23-26
Budapest, Hungary
Toward a Science of Consciousness 2007
2007
Jul 23
Chicago, Illinois
Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science
2007
Jul 20
Palo Alto, CA USA
de Grey v. Hurlbut on Life-Extension Ethics
2007
Jul 18-20
St. Julian's, Malta
International Association for Homes and Services for the Ageing 7th International Conference
2007
Jul 20
Bryant University |Smithfield, RI, USA
Hughes @ Global Biotechnology Governance: Ethical and Political Challenges
2007
Jul 16-18
Bannockburn, IL USA
Remaking Humanity course at CBHD
2007
Jul 12-13
Washington D.C.
Hughes, Bostrom @ Progressive Bioethics Summit
2007
Jul 5-8
Kansas City, Missouri
SFRA 2007 Celebrating the Golden Age of Science Fiction
2007
Jul 5-8
St. Petersburg, Russia
VI European Congress of IAGG
2007
Jul 2-3
Oxford, UK
Aubrey @ Genetics and Justice
2007
Jul 3
London, UK
Aubrey @ the National Council for Palliative Care
2007
Jun 24-28
Italy
Intl Conf on Intelligent Processing & Manufacturing of Materials
2007
Jun 24-26
Zurich, Switzerland
Synthetic Biology 3.0
2007
Jun 22-25
Las Vegas, Nevada USA
Assoc for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
2007
Jun 21-24
Hiram, Ohio, USA
Politics & Economics of Global Poverty & Health Care
2007
Jun 16-19
Toronto, Canada
Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology
2007
Jun 3-9
Garrison, New York, USA
Mind and Life Summer Research Institute
2007
Jun 6
Chicago, Illinois
Who Gets To Live? Genetic Engineering and Human Diversity7
2007
Jun 1-3
Netanya, Israel
Reprotech & Parenthood Conference
2007
May 26-27
Oxford, UK
Whole Brain Emulation Workshop
2007
May 24-26
Nanaimo, Canada
Conf on Repro & Genetic Tech
2007
May 20-24
Greece
Intl Assoc of Biomedical Gerontology
2007
Jun 18-21
Montréal, Canada
11th Int. Conf. on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons
2007
May 17
Amherst, US
Nanotechnology and Society
2007
May 14-15
Paris, France
OECD Forum 2007
2007
May 11-13
NYC, NY USA
21st CENTURY RIGHTS
2007
May 9
Boston, MA USA
Human2.0: new minds, new bodies, new identities
2007
Apr 29
Uvvy Island, Second Life
Seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life
2007
Apr 26-28
Orlando, FL
15th Annual International Congress On Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies
2007
Apr 25-26
Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada
Treder @ Canadian Auto Workers Annual Tech Conf
2007
Apr 24
Tempe AZ USA
Enhancement & Underrepresented Populations
2007
Apr 22-24
Washington, DC, USA
4th Annual World Health Care Congress
2007
Apr 23
Uvvy Island, Second Life
Kevin Warwick: “Upgrading Humans: Why Not?” in Second Life
2007
Apr 20-22
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA
The New Humanism: Multi-Cultural and Multi-National
2007
Apr 20-22
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering
2007
Apr 19-21
Sydney, Australia
Somatechnics Conference
2007
Apr 19-20
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
From Therapy to Enhancement
2007
Apr 19-20
Liverpool, UK
Global Health and Human Rights: Theoretical Perspectives
2007
Apr 18-20
Univ of Warwick, UK
Applied Positive Psychology Conference
2007
Apr 19
London, UK
Aubrey @ UBS Global Investors’ Forum
2007
Apr 16
Tempe, Arizona USA
Hughes on H+ & Human Nature
2007
Apr 11-15
Jerusalem, Israel
Advanced Tech in Medicine Conf
2007
Apr 14-15
Dartmouth, NH, USA
Hughes,Glenn @ Nano & Human Enhancement
2007
Apr 14
Farmington, CT
Transgender Lives
2007
Apr 13
Phoenix, Arizona
The Law and Ethics of Brain Scanning
2007
Apr 12
Aubrey @ Will Science Cure Aging?
2007
Mar 30-31
Edmonton AB, Canada
Aubrey et al @ Edmonton Aging Symposium
2007
Mar 30
Storrs, CT USA
Redesigning the Human