Links

I can really recommend the sayz me speech software for any visual artists
out there. I use it to let my computer to read out loud articles and webpages
to me whilst I draw or paint. Use the options to slow the speech down a tad
and you'll soon get used to its way of speaking.

 

H+ websites and organisations H+ personalities blogs and articles

 

World Transhumanist Association

The Methuselah Foundation

Foresight Nanotech Institute

Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

 

Ray Kurzweil

Nick Bostrom

1993 article by Vernor Vinge on the Singularity

James Hughes

 

 

H+ Video's, Pocast's etc

 

Hitchikers Guide to the future, BBC net casts

The Story of the Stem Cell, BBC net casts

The 'laws' that describe technological progress, BBC net cast

The Age of Intelligent Machines: The Film

Nanotechnology Webcast

2005 Futures Podcast's created by Natasha Vita More

Building Gods Rough Cut (goes for shock value)

Immortality Institute's Life Extension Conference

The James Martin Institute has just held a ground breaking conference drawing scientists, philosophers and futurists from around the world to discuss human enhancement and the future of humanity. They have full streaming videos of the conference over four days, which are well worth the watch.

Atomic Scale Technology, BBC net cast

Making a human alien, BBC net cast

Silicon valley USA, BBC net casts

Aubrey de Grey's presentations

Changesurfer Radio with Dr. James Hughes

Art peice about "becoming transhuman"

H+Art podcasts

 

H+ websites and organisations H+ personalities blogs and articles

 

Immortality Institute

Extropy Institute

Betterhumans

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Life extention wiki

Transhumanist wiki

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

Futuretag

Future Hi

Viridian Movement

The Institute of Nanotechnology

Artificial intelligence wiki

Longevitymeme

Accelerating future

 

Natasha & Max More

Cyborgdemocracy blog

Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler

Anders Sandberg

Flash animation about Transhumanism

Robotic nation blog

The Speculist blog

Sentient developments blog

DemocraticTranshumanism

H+ articles at Ray Kurzweil's site

The Age of Intelligent Machines

IEET blog

List_of_Transhumanists, wiki

Fightaging blog

 

 

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

 

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.

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!    

Recommended by PJ Manney

 

 

 

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.

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.

   

Recommended by Ben Zaiboc of the UKTA

  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.

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.

   

 

Places to discuss H+

For a real intellectual chat try the James Martin Institute forum or the various H+ email lists that can be located through the website's of the main H+ organisations.

Kurzweil mindX forum

Betterhumans forum

Immortality forum

WTA forum

 

 

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