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Rocket-powered mechanical arm could revolutionize prosthetics; Goin’ Bionic

Rad. Two recent posts come to mind. One and two. Check ‘em out. Combine a mechanical arm with a miniature rocket motor: The result is a prosthetic device that is the closest thing yet to a bionic arm....

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The Airic Bionic Arm

We’ve covered a TON of advanced prosthetics and cyborg arms lately. We covered the Advanced Prosthesis hand here, the rocket powered arm here, and the Touch Bionics prosthetic arm here. Sci Fi Tech via...

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New Scientist video featuring de Grey, Bostrom and Sandberg

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extropy

Extropianism, also referred to as extropism or extropy, is an evolving framework of values and standards for continuously improving the human condition. Extropians believe that advances in science and...

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The Role of AGI in Cybernetic Immortality by Dr. Ben Goertzel

There’s also the possibility, maybe, of a kind of quantum physics approach to reconstituting people. In principle, according to quantum physics, every macroscopic event is recorded in the universe...

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Report on the 3rd Israeli Transhumanist Seminar

Dr. Frida Fuchs Simonstein, bio-ethicist from Emek Izreel college, gave a fantastic presentation on Indefinite Life Prolongation: the scientific ways toward it – telomerase, embryonic and adult stem...

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Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen

Slept through the Transhumanist Meetup tonight, DOH! Oh well, I can still get my transhumanist fix on Stickam. Check out the Debate Faith room if you get a chance. “My forecast is that around 2050, the...

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Transhumanist Meetup 1/17/2007 Recap

Greetings! I went to the Boston Transhumanist Meetup last night. It was great. Topics ranged from controlling mitochondrial DNA mutation, to AI, modeling consciousness, what is consciousness?, Eastern...

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Old People Are People Too: Why It Is Our Duty to Fight Aging to the Death by...

Aubrey has a (relatively) new paper up at Cato Unbound. Thanks to George Dvorsky of Sentient Developments blog for making me aware of this paper. And for anyone in Cambridge (England) who wants to...

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Transhuman Comic Book Out Now!

The artist Jonathan Hickman in association with Image Comics has released the first issue of Transhuman … In the not so distant future, pharmaceutical companies fight over the next advancement in their...

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LIFT Conference – Kevin Warwick Lecture (2008)

Thanks go to George Dvorsky from Sentient Developments. Here is Kevin Warwick’s lecture on the latest in human/machine inteface given at Lift Conference 2008. In this presentation Kevin Warwick takes a...

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DIY TMS and EEG

Great article on 0.5-tier transhumanism at Functionalism in Action. Check it out … Most Transhumanists look to the future as the time of enhanced human experience. It’s symptomatic of the transhumanist...

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Brain Chip

How much would you pay to have a small memory chip implanted in your brain if that chip would double the capacity of your short-term memory? Or guarantee that you would never again forget a face or a...

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Ray Kurzweil: Making the World A Billion Times Better

MIT was so advanced in 1965 (the year I entered as a freshman) that it actually had a computer. Housed in its own building, it cost $11 million (in today’s dollars) and was shared by all students and...

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Mischaracterizing the Singularity

George Dvorsky and Michael from Accelerating Future have two great articles up detailing how the Singularity is being mischaracterized. Sci-Fi author Greg Egan also levels an attack against the word...

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Boston Transhumanist Meetup TOMORROW

What The Boston Transhumanists June Meeting When Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:30 PM Who At least 8 Transhumanists. Where MC^2 cafe, 2nd floor, Marriott hotel 2 Cambridge Center Cambridge MA 02142 617...

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The Boston Transhumanist Society ~June 20th 2008

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George Dvorsky (Sentient Developments) transhumanism and life extension talk...

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H+ Magazine Debut!

Issue number 1 is out now. Hop on over to http://www.hplusmagazine.com/ and download it! Aubrey is interviewed, along with a slew of other articles. Looks great!

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Hiatus

I have not written to this blog in a long time. Facebook has been making microblogging much more appealing. I just paste in a link and voila. I want to reenergize theflowingofthedao with more original...

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