RU Sirius is a pioneer of technoprogressive futurism. As founder/editor of the magazine Mondo 2000 RU Sirius forged a brand of scientifically-literate psychedelic gonzo radicalism that nurtured and inspired the emerging transhumanist subculture, and is now emerging again as an important critical voice. As prime driver of the growing MondoGlobo media operation, RU has been profiling leading technoprogressive thinkers, activists and issues for the last five years.

In his latest book True Mutations: Interviews on the Edge of Science, Technology, and Consciousness RU presents some of those interviews - with the IEET’s Nick Bostrom, Jamais Cascio, Ramez Naam, Wrye Sententia and Aubrey de Grey among many others - exploring

the wild changes that may be coming to the human species during the 21st Century. In a series of interviews, author/host RU Sirius explores a series of (r)evolutions in disciplines ranging from the evolution of clean energy to the possibilities of endless neurological ecstasy; from open-source free access to nearly everything under the sun to self-directed biotechnological evolution; from psychedelic culture mash-ups to the possibilities of a technological singularity that alters not only humanity but the entire universe.

 

  INTRODUCTION

  It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings at Your 160th Birthday Party: RU Curious Interviews RU Sirius

  SECTION ONE: Digital Revolution Reaches PUBERTY

  How the Sixties Shaped the Personal Computer Revolution with John Markoff
  Other Worlds: Real and Imagined with Jamais Cascio
  We Are All as Weird as Any of Us with Cory Doctorow
  The End-To-End Principle with Clay Shirkey
  Between Anarchy and Oligarchy with Siva Vaidhyanathan
  When Cooperation Breaks Out with Howard Rheingold
  Imagine Jaron Lanier with Jaron Lanier
  The Top 11 Reasons Why VR has not yet become Commonplace by Jaron Lanier
  We Like to Watch with Ken Goldberg
  Virtually Ahead Of Everybody with Lynn Hershman

  SECTION TWO: THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON TECHNOLOGY

  The Manchurian Rodent with David Pescovitz
  Hey, Look at my Brain! with Steven Johnson
  The Neuroceutical Age with Zack Lynch
  Is It Your Brain? with Wrye Sententia
  Nootropics: Past, Present & Future with Will Block
  I Meme Mine with Susan Blackmore

  SECTION THREE: LOVING THE TRANSHUMAN

  BioPunk News You Can Use with David Duncan
  Fountains of Youth with Michael Asimov and Aubrey de Gray
  More-Than-Humanism with Ramez Naam
  Feeling Groovy, Forever with David Pierce
  TRANSitions with Christopher Dewdney
  The Whole Thing Spirals Out of Control with Mark Pesce
  Does Transhumanism Suck? with Annalee Newitz

  SECTION FOUR: AN OPEN SOURCE FOR THE SELF
  True Mutations: An Open Source for the Self with Genesis P. Orridge
  Hang The Tsar! with Robert Anton Wilson
  Magickal Reality Hacking with Richard Metzger
  Players with Pat Kane
  The 2012 (Or Thereabouts) Trip with Daniel Pinchbeck
  No Gene is an Island with Howard Bloom
  Recombinant Culture: Cut Sounds and Memes with Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky