Joining the Radical Cyborgs on Orkut, Facebook

In addition to the IEET networks we’re building on LinkedIn and XING, some of us in the IEET have been exploring the social networking sites of Orkut and Facebook for the last couple of years. For instance there are the Radical Cyborgs groups on Orkut and Tribe.net that spun off of the Cyborg Democracy blog, the Technoliberation site and Technoliberation list.

Now on Facebook one of our interns Ben Hyink has started the Society for the Cyborg Revolution, “founded upon the premise that all forms of personhood, or beings with self- awareness, including humans, upgraded animals, cyborgs, intelligent robots, and post-humans, have a fundamental, democratic right to govern their own bodies. We advocate the right of all beings to have access to cognitive and physical enhancement, life-extension technologies and similar upgrades. Furthermore, we support the democratic use of stem-cell research, bio-technology, nano-technology and other promising lines of research to improve the quality of life for all.”

These aren’t IEET projects, and they are more playful than the staid thinktankery we’re pursuing at the IEET, but some of us are linked up through these groups and if you think they are fun I’d encourage you to add yourself.

Some of the other groups you might be interested in are:

On Facebook:
- Technoprogressive
- Cyborgian Ethics Forum
- WorldChanging
- Support Stem Cell Research
- Bioethics
- Transhumanists
- Transhumanist Student Network

On Orkut:
- Foresight
- Immortality Institute
- War on Aging
- Aubrey de Grey
- Super longevity/health
- Singularitarians
- Bioengineering
- Affective & Cognitive Liberty
- Future Salon
- Transhumanists
- WorldChanging

On Tribe.net:
- Radical Cyborgs
- Responsible Nanotechnology
- Singularitarians
- Betterhumans
- Transhumanists
- Procreative Liberty
- Immortalists
- Existential Risks
- Neuroscience & Neuroengineering