| Sporting nanobot to inspire kidsA tiny football-playing robot has been developed by a team in Zurich to spark young people's interest in nanotechnology - and with the hope of leading to pioneering medical treatments.
The robot, made out of nickel and powered by magnetic fields, is just 300 microns wide - about the width of three hairs. |
| Letter from UtopiaThe good life: just how good could it be? A vision of the future from the future, by Nick Bostrom. |
| Three Dialogues on IdentityIt is widely said that some primitive tribe or other once feared that photographs could steal their souls.
Ha ha! How embarrassing. Silly tribespeople.
I shall now present three imaginary conversations along such lines - the common theme being frustration. |
| The World in 2050This essay explores some of the social, political, economic and technological issues that the world may have to face in the mid-21st century. A central theme is the need to regulate molecular nanotechnology because of its immense abuse potential. |
| The open-source person?A discussion about the benefits and dangers of Brain-Computer Interfaces leads to a new approach to the friendly Superintelligence problem |
| Transhumanist ValuesAn article by Nick Bostrom on what is valuable to transhumanists. The following sections are particularly worth reading:
* Human limitations
* The core transhumanist value: exploring the posthuman realm
* Basic conditions for realizing the transhumanist project |
| Nick Bostrom: 3 ways to advance scienceNick Bostrom on why we should invest time and money into developing cognitive enhancement technologies:
"No contribution would be more generally applicable than one that improves the
performance of the human brain. Much more effort ought to be devoted to the
development of techniques for cognitive enhancement, be they drugs to improve
concentration, mental energy, and memory, or nutritional enrichments of infant formula
to optimize brain development. Society invests vast resources in education in an attempt to improve students’ cognitive abilities. Why does it spend so little on studying the biology of maximizing the performance of the human nervous system?" |
| Transhumanism and atheism - natural alliesAn article about the common ground between the atheist movement and transhumanism. I've been hanging out on the RichardDawkins.net forums, and this is a crosspost.
Let me know if you have any ideas on , because I think it's important stuff! |
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