Emergence - IEET News for October 2008

Sep 30, 2008

CONTENTS

1. A Note From Dr. J.
2. IEET News
3. Articles
4. Latest from JET
5. Multimedia
6. TechEthx News
  - IEET-News List Posts
  - Trans-Spirit List Posts
7. Events
  - with IEET Speakers
  - all events

A NOTE FROM DR. J.

Really, how exciting could anything I tell you about the IEET be compared to the times we are living in? Well, what the heck, maybe you need some diversion.

Most exciting for me is our upcoming futurist mega-conference in Mountain View California, November 14-16. On November 14 the IEET and CRN will host a seminar on “Global Catastrophic Risks” (remember supervolcanoes make market meltdowns seem trivial):

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ieet20081114/

The next two days many IEET folks will be joining Foresight Nanotech Institute, Humanity+ (World Transhumanist Association), Immortality Institute, Long Now Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Acceleration Studies Foundation, CyBeRev, Millennium Project, and Reason Foundation for “Convergence 08.”

http://www.convergence08.org/

And it will all take place at the Computer History Museum. Cool huh?

As previously announced, we are also working on a meeting to be chaired by the super-energetic Andy Miah in Glasgow Scotland on “Biopolitics of Pop Culture” in the summer of 2009.

Our other big project for 2009, the Cyborg Buddha meeting, has wonderfully been folded into a larger meeting on “BuddhaDharma 2.0” to be held in Boulder Colorado in the Fall of 2009. More details to come.

The publication of the HETHR 2006 papers and the WTA book papers in JET is a huge relief, and would never have happened without the hard work of the authors and editor Russell Blackford.

Speaking engagements by IEET fellows and friends are happening all the over the world on a weekly basis for the foreseeable future. In the short term I’m looking forward to chatting with the Methodists in Virginia about enhancement in October. I’m also doing a service for the Unitarians where I will be dressing up as and “channeling” Robert Green Ingersoll, a wild 19th century agnostic and leftist orator.

Gardening is done for the year, and I’ve probably eaten more tomatoes, peppers and zucchini in the last couple months than in my entire life.

Do you feel history speeding up? Let’s work together to make sure it all goes in the right direction.

J.

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IEET NEWS

Poll: Percent of adults employed in 2050 in Europe and N. America (Sep 30, 2008) http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/poll20080930/

Two New Special Issues from JET (Sep 29, 2008) http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/jet20090929/

Andy launches Human Futures (Sep 25, 2008) http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20080925/

Superstruct Begins (Sep 23, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/superstruct/

Doug guestblogs at BoingBoing (Sep 22, 2008) http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/doug20080922/

Support the IEET Fund Drive (Sep 1, 2008) http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ieet20080901/

Doug Rushkoff’s Testament series is complete (Sep 1, 2008) http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rushkoff20080901/


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ARTICLES

Ben Goertzel: Technological versus Subjective Acceleration (Sep 30, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/goertzel20080930/
A friend of mine believes that all this talk about “accelerating change” and approaching the Singularity is bullshit—in part because he doesn’t see things advancing all that amazingly exponentially rapidly around him.

Charlie Stross: Living through Interesting Times (Sep 30, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/stross20080930/
We are living in interesting times; in fact, they’re so interesting that it is not currently possible to write near-future SF.

Silke Fauve: An Open Letter to Cheerleaders for Selfish-Interest (Sep 26, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/fauve20080925/
In two Capitalism Magazine polemics, Alex Epstein and Wayne Dunn call for CEOs and businesspeople to uphold the principle of self-interest with pride and zeal. “An Open Letter to CEOs: Defend the Profit Motive—or Perish” and “An Open Letter to Businesspeople,” written in 2006 and 2007 respectively, pit entrepreneurs against “moral enemies” and “servitude sheep.”

Charlie Stross: Modern day shibboleths (Sep 24, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/stross20080924/
What’s wrong with this sentence: “give me $700Bn with no oversight and I’ll keep your banking system from going down the tubes by buying up the bundles of sub-prime mortgages and other investments they’re elbow deep in”?

Michael Anissimov: Ideas for Mitigating Extinction Risk (Sep 24, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/anissimov20080924/
As I see it, there are three main categories of risk: bio, nano, and AI/robotics. These man-made risks make up the vast majority of the threat magnitude over the coming century and deserve most of the attention.

Jamais Cascio: Tomorrow Matters (Sep 23, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20080923/
In the midst of ongoing wars, accelerating economic collapse, and cascading environmental ruin, it’s easy to dismiss futurism as self-indulgence, a superficial pastime devoted to spotting the next hot gizmo or telling us all how some coming development changes everything. What really matters is the here-and-now. Serious people know that thinking about the future is frivolous; anyone (or any business) not focusing laser-like on the problems of today is wasting time and money. Right?

Christopher Harris: Deep brain stimulation and exercise (Sep 23, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/harris20080924/
Hard to motivate yourself to exercise? In a future with ubiquitous nano-neural interfaces finding the get-up-and-go could be only a button push away.

Silke Fauve: Calculating Character (Sep 18, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/fauve20080918/
Every nation has a collective character.  This character may be one of caring and solidarity or, at the other end of the continuum, one of unqualified self-interest and internal conflict.  Where on that continuum will America fall in the next fifty years?

Milan Ćirković (with co-authors Anders Sandberg and Jason G. Matheny):
How can we reduce the risk of human extinction? (Sep 17, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cirkovic20080917/
In the early morning of September 10, the Large Hadron Collider will be tested for the first time amid concern that the device could create a blackhole that will destroy the Earth. If you’re reading this afterwards, the Earth survived. Still, the event provides an opportunity to reflect on the possibility of human extinction. Since 1947, the Bulletin has maintained the Doomsday Clock, which “conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction—the figurative midnight—and monitors the means humankind could use to obliterate itself.” The Clock may have been the first effort to educate the general public about the real possibility of human extinction.

Jamais Cascio: Massively-Multiplayer Decepticon (Sep 17, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20080917/
A new pandemic is sweeping the planet. Police fired on secessionist demonstrators in Oregon. The Chinese government is trying (unsuccessfully) to suppress news of eco-terrorists bombing multiple coal-fired power plants. We’re looking at climate refugees numbering in the tens of millions. The human race will go extinct by 2042.

Doug Rushkoff: Financial Melt Up (Sep 17, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rushkoff20080917/
So much to say about the current financial mess, so little time. I’ll leave investors to fend for themselves this week. I’ve given enough of that CNBC-style advice lately, contrarian though it may be. I’d rather spend these precious minutes explaining why the financial meltdown is not a bad thing for a lot of us.

Mike Treder: The End of Capitalism? (Sep 16, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20080915/
Does the present financial crisis signal the end of capitalism, as we know it? The question was asked on Friday by our colleague Stephen Aguilar-Millan of the European Futures Observatory.

Jamais Cascio: This Changes Everything (Sep 12, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20080912/
You have my permission to slap the next futurist (foresight thinker, scenario strategist, or trend-spotter) who uses the expression “this changes everything” seriously. Slap them hard. Maybe a shin-kick, too, if you’re into it.

Doug Rushkoff: The Hate Party (Sep 4, 2008)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rushkoff20080904/
I felt a bit nauseous watching the Republican convention last night. I’m very much a give-the-benefit-of-the-doubt kind of guy, so I try to listen to the arguments people make even when they’re made in over-the-top or patronizing ways.

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THE LATEST FROM THE JOURNAL OF EVOLUTION AND TECHNOLOGY

http://jetpress.org

Becoming More Than Human: Technology and the Post-Human Condition Special Issue (Volume 19 Issue 1)

Intro: Sky Marsen “Introduction”
http://jetpress.org/v19/marsen.htm

1-2:  Cory Doctorow “Leaving Behind More Than a Knucklebone”
http://jetpress.org/v19/doctorow.htm

3-7:  Patrick D. Hopkins “A Moral Vision for Transhumanism”
http://jetpress.org/v19/hopkins.htm

8-16: William Sims Bainbridge “Cognitive Expansion Technologies”
http://jetpress.org/v19/bainbridge.htm

17-27: Samuel H. Kenyon “Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Robot?”
http://jetpress.org/v19/kenyon.htm

28-34: Riccardo Campa “Pure Science and the Posthuman Future”
http://jetpress.org/v19/campa.htm

35-41: Gregory E. Jordan “The Invention of Man: A Response to C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man”
http://jetpress.org/v19/jordan.htm

42-50: Joseph Jackson “The Amorality of Preference: A Response to the Enemies of Enhancement”
http://jetpress.org/v19/jackson.htm

51-61: PJ Manney “Empathy in the Time of Technology: How Storytelling is the Key to Empathy”
http://jetpress.org/v19/manney.htm

62-66: George Dvorsky “Better Living through Transhumanism”
http://jetpress.org/v19/dvorsky.htm

67-72: Nick Bostrom “Letter from Utopia”
http://jetpress.org/v19/bostrom.htm

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Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights (HETHR) Special Issue (Volume 18 Issue 1)

i-vi:  James Hughes “Introduction”
http://jetpress.org/v18/hughes.htm

The Ethics of Enhancement

1-9:  Patrick Hopkins “Is Enhancement Worthy of Being a Right?”
http://jetpress.org/v18/hopkins.htm

10-26: Fritz Allhoff “Germ Line Genetic-Enhancement and Rawlsian Primary Goods”: 
http://jetpress.org/v18/allhoff.htm

27-34: Martin Gunderson “Enhancing Human Rights: How the Use of Human Rights Treaties to Prohibit Genetic Engineering Weakens Human Rights”
http://jetpress.org/v18/gunderson1.htm

35-41: Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff “Against Unrestricted Human Enhancement”
http://jetpress.org/v18/linallhoff.htm

42-49: Fred Gifford “Ethical Issues in Enhancement Research”
http://jetpress.org/v18/gifford.htm

50-55: Aubrey de Grey “Our Right to Life”
http://jetpress.org/v18/deGrey.htm


Democracy, Diversity and Enhancement

56-69: Gregory Fowler and Kirk Allison “Technology and Citizenry: A Model for Public Consultation in Science Policy Formation”
http://jetpress.org/v18/fowlerallison.htm

70-78: Laura Colleton “The Elusive Line Between Enhancement and Therapy and Its Effects on Health Care in the U.S.”
http://jetpress.org/v18/colleton.htm

79-85: Anita Silvers “The right not to be normal as the essence of freedom”
http://jetpress.org/v18/silvers.htm

86-93: Martin Gunderson   “Genetic Engineering and the Consent of Future Persons”
http://jetpress.org/v18/gunderson2.htm
 

Cognitive Enhancement

94-107: Martine Rothblatt “Are We Transbemans Yet?”
http://jetpress.org/v18/rothblatt.htm

108-115: Mark Walker “Cognitive Enhancement and the Identity Objection”
http://jetpress.org/v18/walker.htm

116-123: Eva Caldera “Cognitive Enhancement and Theories of Justice: Contemplating the Malleability of Nature and Self”
http://jetpress.org/v18/caldera.htm

124-128:  Dawn Jakubowski “Cognitive Enhancement and Liberatory Possibilities of Antidepressant Therapy” 
http://jetpress.org/v18/jakubowski.htm

129-142: George Dvorsky “All Together Now: Considerations for biologically uplifting non-human animals”
http://jetpress.org/v18/dvorsky.htm

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MULTIMEDIA

Changesurfer Radio: Ethics for Robots (09/27)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20080928/

Changesurfer Radio: Ghanaian Humanism (09/27)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20080927/

BioCentre symposium: The Ethics of Artificial Minds (09/25)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bostrom200809/

Changesurfer Radio: Advocating for People with ADD (09/20)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20080920/

Changesurfer Radio: Science Blog Journalism (09/13)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20080913/

College Humor: A Major Asteroid Impact (09/12)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/kt2008/

The Future And You: Bostrom on H+, the future and x-risks (09/10)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bostromtfay08/


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ETHICS & TECH IN THE NEWS

IEET complicit in the Nephilim threat?  (09/20)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ieetneph/

Hughes on Catastrophic Risks in the Boston Globe (09/07)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20080907/


FROM IEET-NEWS LIST

[ieet] Philosophical Warning Labels
http://www.mailbucket.org/ieet-news-8959119.html

[ieet] America’s First Human-Powered Gym
http://www.mailbucket.org/ieet-news-8958859.html

[ieet] UN urged to coordinate killer asteroid defences
http://www.mailbucket.org/ieet-news-8923313.html

[ieet] Patent wars hurting life sciences
http://www.mailbucket.org/ieet-news-8882750.html

[ieet] Older pop structure is more eco-sustainable
http://www.mailbucket.org/ieet-news-8576690.html

[ieet] Hughes on Cat Risks in the Boston Globe
http://www.mailbucket.org/ieet-news-8510345.html

[ieet] SAGECast: Guarente & Farrelly on anti-aging
http://www.mailbucket.org/ieet-news-8475528.html

[ieet] Royal Society Philosophical Transactions on geo-engineering
http://www.mailbucket.org/ieet-news-8470995.html

[ieet] Farrelly’s egalitarian argument for life extension
http://www.mailbucket.org/ieet-news-8469976.html


FROM TRANS-SPIRIT LIST

A Switch to Turn Off Autism
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trans-Spirit/message/1410

Gene Therapy Painkillers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trans-Spirit/message/1402

A mindful distraction for pain and depression
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trans-Spirit/message/1401

Podcast: Biswas-Diener on his new happiness book
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trans-Spirit/message/1400

Biofeedback used to reduce math stress
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trans-Spirit/message/1399

Erotic self-stimulation and brain implants
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trans-Spirit/message/1398

Does Money or Freedom Make Us Happy?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trans-Spirit/message/1397

Newsweek: Sad Brain, Happy Brain
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Trans-Spirit/message/1396

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IEET SPEAKER EVENTS

Andy on ET Ethics @ The Futures of Space Exploration
Glasgow, Scotland
2008 Sep 30-1
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20080930/

Aubrey on SENS
Brussels, Belgium
2008 Oct 1-1
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081001/

Aubrey @ International Workshop on Postponing Ageing
Tallinn, Estonia
2008 Oct 9-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081009/

Hughes on “Gene Therapy and Neurotechnologies to Enhance Human Virtues”
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA
2008 Oct 10-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20081010/

Andy @ The Role of the Arts in Democratic Policy Making
London, UK
2008 Oct 14-14
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20081014/

The Ethics of Human-Aniimal Chimera Research: Fact or Fiction
Hartford, CT USA
2008 Oct 16-16
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hiskes20081016/

Aubrey at San Fran JCC
San Francisco, CA USA
2008 Oct 20-20
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081020/

Hughes @ Science, Christianity & the New Frontiers of Human Life
Blackstone, Virginia USA
2008 Oct 20-21
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20081020/

Aubrey @ Stanford Transhumanist Association
Stanford University, California
2008 Oct 21-21
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081021/

Cascio @ SciVestor Emerging Technologies Workshop
San Jose, CA, USA
2008 Oct 24-24
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20081024/

Brain, Goertzel @ Singularity Summit 2008
San Jose, CA, USA
2008 Oct 25-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/singsum08/

Aubrey @ European Futurists’ Conf
Lucerne, Switzerland
2008 Oct 27-27
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081027/

Miah, Blackford @ Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty
Liverpool, UK
2008 Oct 30-30
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20081030/

Aubrey @ Summit on the Global Agenda
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2008 Nov 7-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081107/

de Grey, Miah, Warwick on Enhancing the Body
London, UK
2008 Nov 10-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/nature20081110/

Aubrey @ Nature debate
London, UK
2008 Nov 10-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081110/

GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
2008 Nov 14-14
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ieet20081114/

Hughes, Bostrom, Cascio, Treder @ Convergence 08
Mountain View, California
2008 Nov 15-16
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/conv08/

Hughes on Using Neurotech to Become Better People
Houston, TX
2008 Dec 2-2
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20081202/

Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09.org)
Arlington, Virginia
2009 Mar 6-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/agi09/

Aubrey @ HealthQuake summit
Detroit, Michigan, USA
2009 Jun 8-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20090608/

Aubrey @ IdeaCity
Toronto, Canada
2009 Jun 17-19
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20090717/

Aubrey @ FutureFest 2009
Cambridge, UK
2009 Jun 23-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20090623/

Aubrey @ SENS4
Cambridge, UK
2009 Sep 4-7
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubreysens4/

 

ALL EVENTS

Andy on ET Ethics @ The Futures of Space Exploration
Glasgow, Scotland
2008 Sep 30-1
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20080930/

Aubrey on SENS
Brussels, Belgium
2008 Oct 1-1
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081001/

Psychiatry and Freedom
Dallas, Texas USA
2008 Oct 6-8
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/psychfree08/

Aubrey @ International Workshop on Postponing Ageing
Tallinn, Estonia
2008 Oct 9-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081009/

Hughes on “Gene Therapy and Neurotechnologies to Enhance Human Virtues”
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA
2008 Oct 10-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20081010/

Andy @ The Role of the Arts in Democratic Policy Making
London, UK
2008 Oct 14-14
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20081014/

The Ethics of Human-Aniimal Chimera Research: Fact or Fiction
Hartford, CT USA
2008 Oct 16-16
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hiskes20081016/

World Academy of Art And Science
Hyderbad, India
2008 Oct 16-20
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/waas2008/

Aubrey at San Fran JCC
San Francisco, CA USA
2008 Oct 20-20
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081020/

Hughes @ Science, Christianity & the New Frontiers of Human Life
Blackstone, Virginia USA
2008 Oct 20-21
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20081020/

Aubrey @ Stanford Transhumanist Association
Stanford University, California
2008 Oct 21-21
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081021/

Bioethics Futurism - Am Soc for Bioethics and Humanities
Cleveland, OH, USA
2008 Oct 23-26
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/asbh2008/

Cascio @ SciVestor Emerging Technologies Workshop
San Jose, CA, USA
2008 Oct 24-24
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20081024/

Gender Freedom Day in Digital Worlds
Second Life
2008 Oct 25-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/gfddw/

Brain, Goertzel @ Singularity Summit 2008
San Jose, CA, USA
2008 Oct 25-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/singsum08/

Aubrey @ European Futurists’ Conf
Lucerne, Switzerland
2008 Oct 27-27
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081027/

Society for Utopian Studies
Portland, Maine
2008 Oct 29-2
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/sus08/

Miah, Blackford @ Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty
Liverpool, UK
2008 Oct 30-30
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20081030/

H+ & Religion session at American Academy of Religion
Chicago, IL USA
2008 Nov 1-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aarh08/

Happiness and The Meaning of Life
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Nov 5-5
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hmol08/

Implanted Mind? The Neuroethics of Intracerebral Stem Cell Transplantation
Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 Nov 6-8
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/immind08/

Aubrey @ Summit on the Global Agenda
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2008 Nov 7-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081107/

de Grey, Miah, Warwick on Enhancing the Body
London, UK
2008 Nov 10-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/nature20081110/

Philosophy and Engineering
London, England.
2008 Nov 10-12
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/philosophy_and_engineering/

Aubrey @ Nature debate
London, UK
2008 Nov 10-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20081110/

11th Annual Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference for Education,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
2008 Nov 11-14
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/200811ahg/

Neuroethics Society meeting
Washington, DC
2008 Nov 13-14
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ns2008/

Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self
Heidelberg, Germany
2008 Nov 13-15
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/dces08/

GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
2008 Nov 14-14
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ieet20081114/

Hughes, Bostrom, Cascio, Treder @ Convergence 08
Mountain View, California
2008 Nov 15-16
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/conv08/

Happiness and its Causes
San Francisco, CA USA
2008 Nov 24-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/happy08/

Our Brains, Our Selves - Aarhus Mirror Workshop
Aarhus, Denmark
2008 Nov 30-1
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/obosamw08/

Hughes on Using Neurotech to Become Better People
Houston, TX
2008 Dec 2-2
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20081202/

World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress
Washington, DC
2008 Dec 8-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/whitc2008/

Regulating technologies
Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2008 Dec 10-11
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tilt08/

Human Rights & Biomedicine
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2008 Dec 10-12
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hrb2008/

Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09.org)
Arlington, Virginia
2009 Mar 6-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/agi09/

Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
Portland, Oregon
2009 Apr 1-5
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/anthcon09/

Somatechnics: The Technologisation of Bodies and Selves
New South Wales, Australia
2009 Apr 16-18
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/stbs09/

Aubrey @ HealthQuake summit
Detroit, Michigan, USA
2009 Jun 8-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20090608/

Aubrey @ IdeaCity
Toronto, Canada
2009 Jun 17-19
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20090717/

First World Congress on Positive Psychology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2009 Jun 18-21
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pospsycon2009/

Aubrey @ FutureFest 2009
Cambridge, UK
2009 Jun 23-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey20090623/

Metaphysics of Science
Melbourne, Australia
2009 Jul 3-5
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/mos09/

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Veronda, VR. Italy
2009 Jul 18-22
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aimed09/

Aubrey @ SENS4
Cambridge, UK
2009 Sep 4-7
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubreysens4/

Politics of the Life Sciences in an ‘Age of Biological Control’
London, UK
2009 Sep 16-18
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/lse2009/


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