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


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Life Inc. video dispatches and audiobook available

Blackford and Schuklenk interviewed about 50 Voices

How to Redesign our Communities for the Internet Age

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From Space, Watts, Bits, and Dreams

Transhumanism F.A.Q. : Is Aging A Moral Good?

Postapocalyptic Gardens

The Difficult Questions of ‘Personhood’

7th European Conference on Computing And Philosophy


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J.D. on 'Do We have a Right to DNA Evidence in Trials?' (Jul 4, 2009)

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Envisioning the Future Program


Victor Frankenstein lamented in 1816 "how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow"  Today, the most common objections to human enhancement technologies come from science fiction, from Frankenstein to Brave New World. At the same time there is a long and broad tradition in literature and film that depicts human enhancement positively, set in societies filled with diversity of intelligent life. Through the Envisioning the Future program we seek to collect images of posthumanity and non-human intelligence, positive, negative and neutral, and engage culture critics, artists, writers, and filmmakers in exploring the lessons to be derived from these cultural expressions.

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Culture News from the IEET


From Space, Watts, Bits, and Dreams by Marcelo Rinesi  Frontier Economy  Jul 2, 2009

The Difficult Questions of ‘Personhood’ by Mike Treder  Ethical Technology  Jul 2, 2009

7th European Conference on Computing And Philosophy  Jul 2, 2009

Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies  Jul 2, 2009

Ethics for the 21st Century  Jul 2, 2009

True Blood: Coexistence by Ben Scarlato  Ethical Technology  Jun 30, 2009

Progress on the Technoprogressive Wiki by Mike Treder  Ethical Technology  Jun 30, 2009

Exploring transhumanist themes in Battlestar Galactica: Caprica by George Dvorsky  Sentient Developments  Jun 30, 2009

Hacking the Earth by Jamais Cascio  The Futurist  Jun 29, 2009

Science Fiction and Tech Innovation  Jun 28, 2009

Cognitive Enhancement Workshop and Symposium`  Jun 27, 2009

Andy @ Social Media  Jun 26, 2009

Hughes on “Science & Technology for Liberation” @ Think Galacticon  Jun 26, 2009

Technoprogressives and Transhumanists: What’s the difference? by Mike Treder  Ethical Technology  Jun 25, 2009

On Democratic Transhumanism by J. Hughes  Re-Public  Jun 24, 2009


Culture Books from the IEET


Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (2009)

Science Fiction and Philosophy by Susan Schneider (2008)

Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow’s People by Eds. Peter Healey and Steve Rayner (2008)

Human Futures: Art in the Age of Uncertainty by Andy Miah (Editor) (2008)

Hectowords by Marcelo Rinesi (2007)

The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind by Ben Goertzel (2006)

Testament (volumes 1-4) by Douglas Rushkoff (2005)

Get Back in the Box : Innovation from the Inside Out by Douglas Rushkoff (2005)

Times of Trouble (Book Three of Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles) by Russell Blackford (2005)

An Evil Hour (Book Two of Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles) by Russell Blackford (2005)

Kong Reborn by Russell Blackford (2005)

Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism by Doug Rushkoff (2005)

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

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

Transhuman Space: Broken Dreams by Jamais Cascio (2003)

Dark Futures by Russell Blackford (2002)

Strange Constellations : A History of Australian Science Fiction by Russell Blackford, Van Ikin, and Sean McMullen  (1999)

To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek by Athena Andreadis (1999)

Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick’s Space/Time Fiction by Russell Blackford (1998)

Media Virus: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture by Douglas Rushkoff (1996)

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