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Cyborg Buddha Project


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


New at IEET


The Singularity is not what you think

Dr. Pinker Lays the Smackdown on Leon Kass

Is life a gift?

Cobra Commander in ‘08: The Transhuman Choice

Welcome to Intern Akansha Bhargava

Recent Comments


JANUSZ CZOCH on 'Dr. Pinker Lays the Smackdown on Leon Kass' (2008 05 14)


Michael Bone on 'Is life a gift?' (2008 05 14)


PhotoFan on 'Longevity Dividend Seminar Talks' (2008 05 14)


scooter on 'And the Disabled Shall Inherit the Earth' (2008 05 14)


scooter on 'Organization and Information at the Bedside (dissertation)' (2008 05 14)


IEET Fora


Thoughtsurfer: Trans movies poll (1)



"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949



TechEthics News


Snarky Compliments from Will Saletan

Cognitive Enhancement by Scientists

Annalee on PostGenderism

Transhuman, the comic

H+/Biocon/Technoprogressive Quiz at SAGE Crossroads





Also check out technoprogressive multimedia on Thoughtware.tv



Longer, Better Lives Program

Twenty extra years of healthy life are just as valuable in someone’s second century of life as in their first. Through the Longer, Better Lives Program we seek to make the case for longer healthier lives, addressing objections to life extension, from the alleged problem of overpopulation to the threat of ennui. We will be coordinating and seeking consultation with senior citizens groups and organizations of the disabled to help them challenge ageist and ableist attitudes that discourage the full utilization of health technology.

IEET Longer, Better Lives News

Key Longevity Links


Longevity Dividend Campaign

Longevity Dividend Statement, the Longevity Dividend article in The Scientist (March 2006)

Longevity Dividend symposium at the US Senate building Sept 12, 2006. (Watch video of symposium)

- How Soon Before Science Can Slow Aging and At What Cost? VIDEO - Jay Olshansky's slides Leonard Guarente's slides

- Longevity makes Nations Both Healthier & Wealthier? VIDEO Robert Butler (NIA), Robert Fogel (U of Chicago)

- Global VIDEO - Alex Kalache (WHO), Goodwin slides

- Future VIDEO Dr. Alan Leshner, CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science

- Summary VIDEO Daniel Perry, Executive Director, Alliance for Aging Research

Other Pro-Longevity Organizations

Immortality Institute An international network of people working on radical life extension.

Methusaleh Mouse Project An annual prize for the team that has made a mouse live the longest, directed by IEET Fellow Aubrey de Grey.

InfoAging.org A site sponsored by the American Federation for Aging Research, providing comprehensive information about aging from a mainstream scientific point of view.

Alliance for Aging Research

UN Programme on Ageing

Recent Articles
on Life Extension


"Dr. Pinker Lays the Smackdown on Leon Kass" by Michael Anissimov  Accelerating Future  May 14, 2008

"Is life a gift?" by Mike LaTorra  Ethical Technology  May 14, 2008

"Remaking the Athlete, Remaking the Culture" by Jamais Cascio  Open the Future  May 2, 2008

"Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement?" by Andy Miah  Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology 2(1)  May 1, 2008

"The Shifgrethor of Changelings" by Athena Andreadis  Astrogator's Log  Apr 27, 2008




Recent Longer, Healthy Life News


Cognitive Enhancement by Scientists
Nature Apr 10, 2008

H+/Biocon/Technoprogressive Quiz at SAGE Crossroads
Mar 24, 2008

PUMA’s portrayal of cyborg athletes
Feb 5, 2008

Sam Harris on Enhancement
Edge.org Jan 29, 2008

Personal existential risks
XKCD Jan 11, 2008

A Gift for Disabled But Active Duty Soldiers
TankChair Jan 10, 2008

Nigel takes a pop at Aubrey
Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology Jan 10, 2008

Embracing inevitability of gene tweak risks
Science a GoGo Dec 18, 2007


Exploring Life Extension (Immortality Institute 2005)



This film explores various aspects of extreme life extension and includes interviews with IEET Executive Director James Hughes and IEET Fellow Aubrey de Grey.

Books by IEETers on Health and Longevity


The Medicalization of Cyberspace by Andy Miah (2007)

Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Biotechnologies That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae (2007)

Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies In Society by Mihail Roco and William Sims Bainbridge (2006)

Pig Tales, Human Chimeras and Man-made Public Health Hazards by An Ravelingien (2006)

More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement by Ramez Naam (2005)

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future by James Hughes (2004)

Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence: Why Genuine Control of Aging May Be Foreseeable by Aubrey de Grey (editor) (2004)

Genetically Modified Athletes by Andy Miah (2004)

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance by Mihail Roco and William Sims Bainbridge (2003)

On Death, Dying and Not Dying by Peter Houghton (2001)


Multimedia on
Life Extension

21st Century Kids 2008-05-04 Listen or Download

Emerging Brain Plasticity Research 2008-04-28 Listen or Download

Live Long and Worry 2008-04-10 Listen or Download

Post-gender, finding ETs and controlling the Galaxy 2008-03-11 Listen or Download

Popular Arguments For and Against Longevity 2008-03-06 Listen or Download



IEET News on
Life Extension


Science in the 21st Century

Aubrey @ Bioengineering Approaches to Aging

Neural Interfaces Conference

Treder, Cascio @ SciVestor Disruptive Technologies Conference

Miah @ Olympic Legacy Conference

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