The Road to Singularity: Potential Annihilation, Utopian Visions, Will Liberty Prevail?
“Dreams of the far future destiny of man were dragging up from its shallow and unquiet grave the old dream of man as god…”
Transhumanism
DARPA issues solicitation for radical biological technologies to “optimize human performance”
BioPrepWatch | July 28, 2014 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released a solicitation on Wednesday for innovative research proposals of interest for its…
Inside IBM’s billion-dollar bet on Watson
Venture Beat | July 18, 2014 By Richard Byrne Reilly Watson now has the weight of IBM on its shoulders. Big Blue, the largest technology company…
Aspen Institute: Should We Design Our Babies?
You Tube | July 15, 2014 The discussion of “designer babies” often revolves around gender or hair color, but the medical debate is far more…
We Can Now Wirelessly Power Tiny Electronic Devices Implanted in the Body
Motherboard | May 21, 2014 In figuring out how to wirelessly power implantable electronic medical devices, researchers at Stanford University may have just cleared the…
Is choice lost? Microchips to administer drugs, replace pills
Natural News | April 25, 2014 By Michael A. Bedar, MA According to reports from CNN, people who use pharmaceutical drugs, but who don’t like…
Glass without the glasses: Google patents smart contact lens system with a CAMERA built in
Daily Mail | April 14, 2014 By Mark Prigg Google has patented a smart contact lens that could see its Glass wearable computer fit inside…