Daniel McIntosh (Slippery Rock): The Transhuman Security Dilemma. How can we govern the garage biologists who are tinkering with life? A look at 5 ways science could make us immortal. Marios Kyriazis on the prospects of human biological immortality. 2045, the tear man becomes immortal: We're fast approaching the moment when humans and machines merge — welcome to the Singularity movement. A review of Genetic Twists of Fate by Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston. A review of Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball (and more and more). Michael Anissimov on how the Singularity is the biggest threat to humanity (and a response and more). In his own quest to beat the machines, Brian Christian discovers that the march of technology isn’t just changing how we live, it’s raising new questions about what it means to be human (and more). An interview with Misha Angrist, publisher of his genome. Do not watch this video if you lay awake at night, kept from sleep by the terrifying knowledge that one day soon the human race will be thrown into slavery by The Machines. People have no anxiety about genetic tests. Do artificial beings deserve human rights? If the supercomputer bests the human Jeopardy champion this week, the news will be everywhere — but we shouldn't worry (and more and more). Lepht Anonym wants everyone to know the door to transcending normal human capabilities is no farther away than your own kitchen — it’s just going to hurt like a sonofabitch. The future of the human genome: What will the next 20 years of research bring? Minsoo Kang on his book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination.
