Blog | Events | Multimedia | About | Purpose | Programs | Publications | Staff | Contact | Join   
     Login      Register    

Support the IEET




The IEET is a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt organization registered in the State of Connecticut in the United States. Please give as you are able, and help support our work for a brighter future.

Via PayPal




Technoprogressive? BioConservative? Huh?
Quick overview of biopolitical points of view









Personhood Beyond the Human Conference whats new at ieet
Backing into Eden: Chapters 3, 4, and 5

7 Videos from the Starship Century Symposium Part 2

9 Videos from the Starship Century Symposium Part 1

7 Totally Unexpected Outcomes That Could Follow the Singularity

Environmentalism, Innovation & Economics

Meet the smi2ling New Believers

See-through brains

#OpPrism, #AntiSec, #Anonymous | Anonymous Reacts to NSA

The Temptations of Data vs. The Temptations of Privacy

Scientists explore ways to transform hostility into peaceful thoughts


ieet books

eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming
Author
by William Sims Bainbridge

The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
by Ramez Naam

The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays
by eds. Max More and Natasha Vita-More

Artificial Slaves: Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture
by Kevin LaGrandeur


comments

billmerit on 'Meet the smi2ling New Believers' (Jun 19, 2013)

Giulio Prisco on 'Meet the smi2ling New Believers' (Jun 19, 2013)

Giulio Prisco on 'Meet the smi2ling New Believers' (Jun 19, 2013)

Giulio Prisco on 'Meet the smi2ling New Believers' (Jun 19, 2013)

SHaGGGz on 'Meet the smi2ling New Believers' (Jun 19, 2013)







Subscribe to IEET News Lists

Daily News Feed

Longevity Dividend List

Catastrophic Risks List

Biopolitics of Popular Culture List

Technoprogressive List

Trans-Spirit List



Also check out technoprogressive multimedia on Thoughtware.tv

Hottest Articles of the Last Month

The Hubris of Neo-Luddism
by Franco Cortese
May 26, 2013
(3473) Hits
(12) Comments

End of Eating Food
by Dick Pelletier
May 25, 2013
(2989) Hits
(13) Comments

Abolition is Imperative in Kurzweil’s Sixth Epoch Scenario
by Jønathan Lyons
May 25, 2013
(2430) Hits
(37) Comments

How the Singularity Makes us Dumber
by David Eubanks
May 29, 2013
(2282) Hits
(2) Comments

Call for Papers for Special Issue of JET on “Technological Unemployment and Universal Basic Income”

Jun 4, 2013
(2209) Hits
(0) Comments

The singularity: merging human/machine to achieve immortality
by Dick Pelletier
May 21, 2013
(2106) Hits
(4) Comments



Events Archive   (Click Here for Upcoming Events)

Year

When

Where

Event

2013 Jun 15 New York, NY Goertzel and Vita-More @ Second International Global Future 2045 Congress
2013 May 26-31 St. Petersburg, Russia Miah and Vita-More @
2013 May 20-21 Chandler, Arizona Hughes, Wallach & LaGrandeur @ Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics
2013 May 16-17 NY Governing Algorithms
2013 May 14-16 Belgrade, Serbia Hughes and Sorgner on Moral Enhancement @ Enhancement: Cognitive, Mood and Moral
2013 May 2 St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA Douglas Rushkoff at the GRMA’s 2013 Executive Leadership Forum
2013 May 1 Yale U, New Haven, CT USA Natasha Vita-More on “Contested Culture of Radical Life Extension”
2013 Apr 24 Hartford, CT USA Hughes on Life in 2033
2013 Apr 19-21 Ithaca, New York Cornell University Workshop: Imagining the Worst
2013 Apr 8-9 Stanford Law School, Stanford CA USA Robotics and the Law
2013 Apr 5 Salt Lake City, UT Goertzel, Wicks @ 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association
2013 Mar 30 Westin St Francis, San Francisco, CA Natasha Vita-More on “The Plausibility of Transhumanism”
2013 Mar 23-24 Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA Vita-More @ Advancing Humanity Symposium
2013 Mar 18-21 Nijmegen, the Netherlands Human Genomics and Medical Technology
2013 Mar 10-13 Israel de Grey @ 8th European Congress of Biogerontology
2013 Mar 8-10 New York City, NY USA North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress
2013 Feb 23 Charleston, South Carolina Niman @ Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science
2013 Jan 17-14 Erlangen, Germany Sorgner @ Enhancement talks at the Collegium Alexandrinum
2013 Jan 8-22 Tenerife Islands, Spain Space Retreat
2013 Jan 9-10 Bristol, UK Bradshaw @ Cognitive Enhancement and Other Technologies of the Mind
2012 Dec 7-12 Oxford, UK Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-12) & Impacts and Risks of AGI (AGI-Impacts)
2012 Dec 10 New Haven, CT Wallach @ Terminating the Terminator
2012 Dec 6-7 Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Agendas for a Bio-innovation Society
2012 Dec 2-3 New York, US TEDxSiliconAlley 2012
2012 Dec 1-2 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA USA Kuscewski, de Grey, Goertzel, Brin, Pearce, Cascio, Hughes, Glenn, Vita-More, Naam @ H+ SanFran 2012
2012 Nov 30 Borderlands, 870 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Naam, Newitz, Vita-More, Hughes @ Writing about the Future Pre-Conf Event
2012 Nov 28-29 Warsaw, Poland Riccardo Campa at RoboScope 2012
2012 Nov 17-19 University of California, Berkeley, USA Science in Society Conference 2012
2012 Oct 31-2 Dublin, Ireland Biopolitics, Society and Performance
2012 Oct 20 Paris, France Fourth AFT Conférence: Society+?
2012 Oct 19-20 Mountain View, CA Open Science Summit 2012
2012 Oct 12-14 Judson Memorial Church, NYC NY USA Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics
2012 Oct 11-12 New Orleans, Louisiana Cognitive Enhancers: 22nd Neuropharmacology Conference
2012 Oct 11-12 New Orleans, LA USA Neuroethics Society 2012 Annual Meeting
2012 Oct 12 Muskegon, MI USA Naam @ TEDx
2012 Oct 5-6 Pohang, S Korea Hughes on “Virtue Engineering” @ Body and Enhancement Technology
2012 Oct 1 Milan University, Milan, Italy Campa on “Tomorrow’s People: Stronger, Smarter, Happier, Fairer?”
2012 Sep 27-30 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA PSYCHEDEMIA: conference integrating psychedelic experiences in academia
2012 Sep 26-30 Milwaukee, Wisconson. NONHUMAN: The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
2012 Sep 14-16 Munich, Germany BIEN Congress “Pathways to a Basic Income”
2012 Sep 10-14 Dubrovnik, Croatia Enhancement, Emerging Technologies, and Social Challenges
2012 Aug 23-25 Claremont, CA USA Hughes Keynotes @ Bioethics: Religious and Spiritual Approaches
2012 Aug 18-19 Melbourne, Australia Singularity Summit Australia 2012
2012 Aug 2-5 Pasadena, CA USA Genetic Engineering and Human Dignity
2012 Jul 18-20 Sydney, Australia World Congress on Risk
2012 Jul 19-20 Tampere, Finland Seminar of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
2012 Jul 15-17 Mansfield College, Oxford, UK Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
2012 Jul 2-6 University of Birmingham, UK Melanie Swan @ Symposium on Computational Philosophy
2012 Jul 5-6 Sorbonne, Paris, France Sorgner @ Workshop on Human Enhancement
2012 Jul 2-4 Maastricht University, the Netherlands Imagining Techno-Moral Change
2012 Jun 26-29 Rotterdam, Netherlands THINKING AHEAD, Bioethics and the Future, and the Future of Bioethics
2012 Jun 27-29 Troy, New York TechnoScience as Activism
2012 Jun 25-27 Tulane University, New Orleans Melanie Swan @ 5th International Deleuze Studies Conference 2012
2012 Jun 27 Nachbarschaftshaus Gostenhof Nürnberg, Germany Sorgner on Genetic Enhancement
2012 Jun 25-27 Rotterdam, Netherlands FAB Congress 2012: Feminist Approaches to (Future) Bioethics
2012 Jun 22-25 Aspen, Colorado USA Cascio @ Aspen Environment Forum
2012 Jun 18 Univ of Liverpool, UK Current Research in Speculative Fiction
2012 Jun 1-2 Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea Sorgner at Posthumanism in Technology, Culture, and the Arts
2012 May 22-24 Astana, Kazakhstan Bostrom & Cascio @ Astana Economic Forum
2012 May 18-19 Manchester, UK Future Everything Festival
2012 May 17 Stanford University, CA Melanie Swan @ Media X
2012 May 5-6 Melbourne, Australia Humanity+  Summit May 2012
2012 May 3-5 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress
2012 Apr 27 Southern CT State University, New Haven, CT, USA Wallach on “Issues In The Development Of Robotics And Neurotechnologies”
2012 Apr 23 Oxford, UK “Hybrid reality: the emerging human-technology co-evolution” at Oxford
2012 Apr 16 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC USA Sorgner on “Nietzsche’s Virtue ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies
2012 Apr 15 The Scotland
2012 Apr 14 Connecticut College, New London, CT USA Hughes on “Reclaiming Progress” @ Tedx
2012 Apr 14 Stanford University, Stanford, CA Health Futures: Participatory Medicine and Crowdsourced Research
2012 Apr 12-14 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA Visions of the Future: Global SF Cinema
2012 Apr 13 Edinburgh, UK Edinburgh International Science Festival
2012 Apr 10-11 Columbia University, NYC, NY USA Sorgner on “Analogies between Narrative Ethical Structures and Spatial and Temporal Forms”
2012 Apr 9 ASU, Tempe, AZ USA Hughes @ The Transhumanist Imagination: Innovation, Secularization, and Eschatology
2012 Apr 6-7 Salt Lake City Public Library, SLC, UT USA Giulio Prisco on “The Turing Church of Transcendent Engineering”
2012 Apr 5 National Museum, Scotland Miah @ Edinburgh International Science Festival
2012 Mar 30-1 WSQ Campus, New York University, NYC, NY, USA Wallach, Hughes, Hopkins @ The Moral Brain: What Is It? Can It Be Enhanced?
2012 Mar 30 Mountain View, CA Melanie Swan @ CONTACT Cultures of the Imagination
2012 Mar 28-29 Laval, France Enhancing Human Experience via Emerging Technologies
2012 Mar 26-28 Stanford, CA Swan on “DIYgenomics citizen science health research studies”
2012 Mar 28 Al Jazeera George Dvorsky on Al Jazeeera
2012 Mar 28 Digital Futures 2050
2012 Mar 22-26 Tufts University, Meford, MA Lin & Wallach @ Conflict in the 21st Century
2012 Mar 24 San Francisco, CA USA Eagleman @ Being Human
2012 Mar 23 Istanbul, Turkey Naam @  The Future State of Pharmaceuticals
2012 Mar 16-19 University of Suceava, Romania Sorgner @ Engineering, Philosophy & Ethics of the Knowledge Society in Search For a Spiritual Turn
2012 Mar 9-18 Austin, Texas USA Naam on “Growth on a Finite Planet”
2012 Mar 17-18 San Jose, CA USA Swan on “Building a Culture of Empathy”
2012 Mar 9-13 Austin, TX USA Eagleman on The Secret Lives of the Brain @ SXSW
2012 Mar 12 University of Bristol, UK Bradshaw on Enhancement and Disability
2012 Mar 10 Jerusalem 12th Yearly Conference of the Israel Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
2012 Mar 8 Trinity College, Hartford CT USA Russell Blackford on “A Secular Approach to the Risks and Benefits of Emerging Technologies”
2012 Mar 7 Yale University, New Haven CT USA Russell on “The Case Against Radical Enhancement: Assessing the Central Arguments”
2012 Mar 1-4 Orlando, Florida USA Blackford @ Council for Secular Humanism
2012 Feb 9 Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK MIah on “Should living people be able to donate their human tissue to art?”
2012 Feb 8 Liverpool, UK Miah on Art-Science-Ethics
2012 Feb 2 Melbourne, Australia Blackford on “Freedom of Religion and the Secular State”
2012 Jan 23-30 Aalto University, Finland Vita-More and Miah @ Design for Evolution
2012 Jan 24 Southampton Solent University, UK Miah @ Sport & Politics Group, Political Studies Association
2012 Jan 13 Tel Aviv, Israel Against Deathism and For Life-extension Demonstration
2011 Dec 3-4 Hong Kong Humanity+ @ Hong Kong: Living Forever
2011 Nov 15 University of Ottawa, Canada Our Post-Human Future
2011 Nov 12 Holborn Bars, 138-142 Holborn, London, UK Apocalyptic patterns of thought: 2012 and other prophecies
2011 Nov 7-10 Tempe, Arizona S.NET Third Annual Meeting
2011 Oct 30-31 London, UK Designer people: is technology making us less human?
2011 Oct 30 London, UK Smart drugs: magic bullet or cheating ourselves?
2011 Oct 22-23 Mountain View, CA Open Science Summit 2011
2011 Oct 20-23 State College, Pennsylvania, United States Society for Utopian Studies
2011 Oct 21-23 Dublin, Ireland Transforming Human Nature
2011 Oct 20-21 Angel Orensanz Center, New York City, NY USA Rushkoff @ Contact Summit 2011
2011 Oct 15-16 NYC 6th Annual Singularity Summit
2011 Oct 13-16 Portland, OR Animals in Crisis: Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need
2011 Oct 15-16 New York, US Singularity Summit 11
2011 Oct 8 London, UK Beyond Human: Rethinking the Technological Extension of the Human Condition
2011 Oct 6 RSA, London UK Andy Miah @ Humanity 2.0 Book Launch
2011 Sep 28-1 Liverpool, UK Andy Miah @ RE:wire Conference 2011
2011 Aug 26-28 University of Winchester, UK The Science of Empathy and the Spirit of Compassion
2011 Aug 20-21 Melbourne, Australia Goertzel @ Singularity Summit @Melbourne
2011 Aug 8-12 Provo, UT 11th International Conference on Persons
2011 Jul 30-4 Indianapolis, IN 45th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE)
2011 Jul 30-31 Washington, DC No Kill Conference
2011 Jul 21-25 Los Angeles, CA Animal Rights National Conference 2011
2011 Jul 22-24 Los Angeles, California Natasha Vita-More @ Extreme Futurist Fest 2011
2011 Jul 20-21 Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Alien Nation: A Conference on British Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Television
2011 Sep 15-16 Groningen, the Netherlands Design and Use of Neurodevices in Neurosocieties
2011 Jul 12-14 Oxford, United Kingdom Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
2011 Jul 8-10 Vancouver Canada Naam @ World Future Society
2011 Jul 3-5 Montreal, Qc., Canada Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds
2011 Jun 27-29 Portsmouth, England UFAW International Symposium 2011
2011 Jun 25-26 Melbourne, Australia Humanity Summit @Melbourne
2011 Jun 18 Liverpool, UK Speculative Fiction
2011 Jun 16 Sorbonne, Paris, France Aubrey de Grey, Natasha Vita-More @ Technoprog! Summer 2011
2011 Mar 29-1 Online Call for Papers: Expanding Human Boundaries: Cognitive Enhancement, AI and Mind Machine Mergers
2011 May 26-29 Denton, TX Society for Philosophy and Technology 2011: Technology and Security Conference
2011 May 24-27 Oregon, US Douglas Rushkoff keynotes Webvisions
2011 May 26 Texas, US 17th international conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
2011 May 19-22 Luxembourg International Animal Rights Conference 2011
2011 May 20-22 Lucerne, Switzerland European Futurists
2011 May 19-20 Ottawa, Canada GRIDA: Does the Law Consider Animal Suffering?
2011 May 14-15 New York, US Ben Goertzel, Natasha Vita-More, J. Hughes @ HumanityPlus Summit
2011 May 12-14 Hamburg, Germany Andy Miah @ Pulp Fiction and the Undead
2011 May 11-12 Seville, Spain The 4th International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis
2011 May 4-6 Budapest, Hungary European Future Technologies (FET) Conference
2011 Apr 14-21 Shanghai and Yangzhou, China Linda MacDonald Glenn @ EPS Global Yangzhou International Biomedicine Forum
2011 Apr 15-16 Washington, DC Kristi Scott @ STGlobal’s 11th Annual Conference
2011 Apr 12-13 Canterbury University, New Zealand Andy Miah on “The Role of Social Media in Disaster Zones”
2011 Apr 10-11 Tilburg, The Netherlands Wallach @ Technologies on the stand: legal and ethical questions in neuroscience and robotics.
2011 Apr 8-9 Mount Berry, GA Virtue and Modern Technological Society
2011 Apr 8-9 Richardson, TX Natasha Vita-More @ Human Enhancement Symposium
2011 Apr 7-8 Baltimore, MD Conversations for Change: Improving Civic Society for Animals
2011 Apr 4-5 Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland Disaster Bioethics Symposium
2011 Apr 1-3 New York, US Linda Glenn @  Sixth International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering
2011 Mar 31 Ontario, Canada Thinking About Animals Conference
2011 Mar 29-31 College Park, Maryland, United States Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction
2011 Mar 29 NYC, NY Rushkoff on Broadway
2011 Mar 28-29 NYC, NY Rushkoff @ NYC Future Salon
2011 Mar 25-26 Wanaka, New Zealand Andy Miah on “Humanity 2.0”
2011 Mar 23-24 Glasgow, UK Advanced Technologies for an Ageing Population
2011 Mar 21-23 Stanford, United States Artificial Intelligence and Health Communication
2011 Mar 22-23 Otago, New Zealand Andy MIah on “Genetically Modified Athletes: Is this the end of sport?”
2011 Mar 21-22 Otago, New Zealand Andy Miah on “Life isn’t fair, but should it be?”
2011 Mar 20 Online Goertzel @ The Emerging Global Brain
2011 Mar 18-20 Otago, New Zealand Andy Miah on “Are You Interested in Stranger Chat & Facebook Porn?”
2011 Mar 16-17 Otago, New Zealand Andy Miah on “Is Transhumanism All Too Transhuman?”
2011 Mar 12-14 Tokyo, Japan Augmented Human International Conference 2011
2011 Mar 3 Plymouth, UK Andy Miah @ Neuroarts conference
2011 Feb 24-27 New York, NY Tenth Annual North American Basic Income Congress
2011 Feb 27 London UK Andy Miah @ London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
2011 Feb 8 london UK Andy Miah @ PODIUM’s 2011 annual conference
2011 Feb 5 New York, NY Conference on Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
2011 Feb 3-4 Washington, DC New America Foundation: Here Be Dragons
2011 Feb 1 Melbourne Australia Blackford on “Thomas Pynchon?” to Existentialist Society
2011 Jan 28-29 London, UK Humanity+ UK 2011 conference
2011 Jan 26 Bristol, UK Andy Miah: Media Citizenship and the Olympic Games
2011 Jan 24 London UK Miah @ The First Transhuman Games
2011 Jan 21 Boston, US Linda Glenn @ From Seed to Stomach: Food and Farming Law
2010 Dec 16 Andy Miah: #wikileaks was a MMORPG (but I don’t want to talk about that)
2010 Dec 11 London, UK Apocalypse Culture Conference
2010 Dec 9-10 Broadcast from terasemcentral.org Kristi Scott @ Terasem Colloquium
2010 Dec 7 San Francisco, US Breakthrough Philanthropy
2010 Dec 4-5 CalTech, Pasadena, CA, USA Goertzel, Vita-More @ Humanity Summit
2010 Dec 3-4 UPenn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Art Caplan et al. @ Transforming Humanity: Fantasy? Dream? Nightmare?
2010 Dec 2-3 Rome, Italy Translational Issues in BCI Development: User Needs, Ethics, and Technology Transfer
2010 Nov 22 Germany Andy Miah: Ethical Design in a Posthuman World
2010 Nov 19 London, UK Andy Miah: The Virtual Society in a Big Society: Ethics, Education and Digital Technology
2010 Nov 18 Glasgow, UK Andy Miah: Posthumanity: The Impermanence of Humanity
2010 Nov 15-16 Bangalore, India Linda Glenn @  Conference on Human Genome Research
2010 Nov 16 Washington DC, USA de Grey @ How Radical will Radical Life Extension Be?
2010 Nov 13-14 Virginia, US First International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
2010 Nov 11-14 Milwaukee, WI USA Kristi Scott @ Film and History Conference
2010 Nov 10 Brussels, Belgium Making Perfect Life: Bio-engineering in the 21st century
2010 Nov 9 Oxford, UK Andy Miah: #media2012: The Games as a Media Festival
2010 Nov 8 Oxford, UK J. Hughes & Aubrey de Grey on the Ethics of Life Extension @ Oxford Union
2010 Nov 4-6 Boulder, CO Wisdom 2.0 Boulder
2010 Nov 3 Science Channel Marshall Brain and Ben Goertzel on the “AI Uprising”
2010 Nov 1 Atlanta, Georgia USA Hopkins on “Transhumanism as a Theological Process”
2010 Oct 26-30 Romania and Ukraine PHEADE 2010 conference: THE ENGINEERED SINGULARITY
2010 Oct 26 Manchester, UK Andy Miah: The Pursuit of Perfection
2010 Oct 22-25 Milan, Italy Cascio, de Grey, Goertzel, Prisco, Rothblatt, Treder, Vita-More @ Transvision 2010
2010 Oct 23-24 Michigan, US Commodification, Technoculture, and the Human: Rethinking Technology
2010 Oct 21-24 San Diego, CA USA Linda Glenn on “Expert Witnessing” @ American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

HOME | ABOUT | FELLOWS | STAFF | EVENTS | SUPPORT  | CONTACT US
SECURING THE FUTURE | LONGER HEALTHIER LIFE | RIGHTS OF THE PERSON | ENVISIONING THE FUTURE
CYBORG BUDDHA PROJECT | AFRICAN FUTURES PROJECT | JOURNAL OF EVOLUTION AND TECHNOLOGY

RSSIEET Blog | email list | newsletter | Podcast
The IEET is a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt organization registered in the State of Connecticut in the United States.

Contact: Executive Director, Dr. James J. Hughes,
Williams 119, Trinity College, 300 Summit St., Hartford CT 06106 USA 
Email: director @ ieet.org     phone: 860-297-2376