IEET Fellow Dale Carrico and IEET intern Anne Corwin have given great service to the IEET project and we’re sad to report that they won’t be part of the IEET this year.

In January of 2007 the IEET suddenly doubled its web viewage, and the phones rang off the hook.

If we are to begin building an international case for public multi-billion dollar investments in basic research towards the goal of anti-aging medicine we need to know how to answer dozens of public policy questions.

“Autonomous robots” have some people very spooked. But what does it mean to be an autonomous, decision-making entity in the first place?

I know, I know. We’re not exactly living in the Amazing Exciting Future yet. Nevertheless, headlines like Women More Likely To Postpone New Knees definitely prompt a double-take.

This week, an autistic sixth-grader in San Jose was handcuffed and suspended for singing during a physical education class.  No, I’m not making this up…you can read the news story yourself.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I’m a huge science fiction nut (and that this has been the case for practically as long as I can remember).  I grew up being exposed to Star Trek (both the original series and the Next Generation series when that came out), Star Wars (which I became utterly obsessed with at the age of eight), and other miscellaneous media.

Guitar Hero may not teach you to play the guitar, but it could be really good for your brain.

Ageless Animals is a research project devoted to investigating the most long-lived denizens of the animal kingdom.

Visions of the Future, the BBC special hosted by physicist Michio Kaku will air as a three-part series starting on 5 November, 2007.  Nick Bostrom and Anne Corwin from the IEET are part of the series, as are many other futurist luminaries such as Ray Kurzweil, Joel Garreau, Jaron Lanier, Paul Saffo and Rodney Brooks.