
Other relevant
sites
| NewScientist,
ScientificAmerican,
Calresco,
Edge, Opte,
Powersof10,
Skytopia,
Wolfram, Seti,
Realitycarnival,
X-Prize,
Grid, Einstein@Home,
Headweb LHC@home,
D2OL, World
Community Grid |
Ne-plus-ultra
project, Bioethics-today,
UK Transhumanists,
World-science, JET,
Sagecrossroads, Wired,
Alcor, 1st-ave-machine,
Openmind, Innovationwatch,
Climateprediction.net,
FHI |
Recommended
books
Recommended
by Russell Rukin
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Non
fiction - Ray
Kurzweils "The Singularity is Near", good overview
of H+ coming revolutions and time frames. Reads like a bumper
edition of the New Scientist.
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Fiction
- Ian M
Banks novels (the Culture ones), What you could get
upto in the universe post singularity and proof that AI's do have
senses of humour! |
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Recommended
by PJ Manney
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Non-Fiction - Ramez
Naam's "More than Human" is a good short introduction
to the possibilities transhuman techonogies present to us and
it's user-friendly, concise writing makes it go down easily.
Joel
Garreau's "Radical Evolution" clearly outlines
many of the players and the differences of opinion on the varied
sides of the tranhuman debate, with a clever organizational thesis,
dividing our possible futures into Heaven, Hell, Prevail or Transcend
and he writes with a witty, slick, journalistic style.
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Fiction - Michael
Crichton's "Prey" is classic Crichton: nothing
more or less than the film script in prose. A computer programmer
must save his family and the world (or at least California and
Nevada) from a swarm of smart, evolving and self-replicating nanobots.
Don't expect smart writing or twists you couldn't figure out a
kilometer away and you won't be disappointed.
Philip Jose Farmer's "To
Your Scattered Bodies Go" is the beginning of the
Riverworld series, the classic SF series about what happens when
our far future selves download the minds and bodies of everyone
who has ever lived -- and died -- on Earth as part of a grand
experiment on another planet. Old, but rollicking fun.
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Recommended
by Ben Zaiboc of the UKTA
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Non
fiction - Beyond
Humanity (CyberEvolution and Future Minds), Gregory S Paul
& Earl D Cox. ISBN 1-886801-21-5
The
Spike, Damien Broderick, ISBN 0-312-87782-X
An excellent introduction to the concepts that underlie the singularity.
Mind
Children, Hans Moravec, ISBN 0-674-57618-7
Subtitled "The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence".
I can't really add to that.
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Fiction
- Diaspora,
Greg Egan An excellent treatment of what life could be
like for uploaded minds
Ghost
in the Shell (book and film), Shirow Masamune (author),
Oshii Mamoru (director)
Manga/Anime set in a future Japan, featuring man-machine hybrids.
The sequel, 'Innocence' was recently released, and is also available
in book or film versions.
GITS has spawned a 'Stand-alone Series', which I believe was released
on TV, and features some cool music by Kanno Yoko.
Accelerando/
Singularity Sky/ Iron Sunrise, Charles Stross
Charlie Stross just rocks. If you do nothing else, download Accelerando
from www.accelerando
(creative commons licence) and read it.
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