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“I think you can change human nature and it is possible to make this the best of all possible worlds” - Robert J. Sawyer is one of most prolific and talented science fiction novelists of our time.
Robert J. Sawyer - Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author - explains how the popularity of the Star Wars movies has “dulled the edge” that made science fiction such a pertinent film genre.
Dr. NakaMats is the world record holder of patents (3,300+) and he wants to live to be 144 years old. The film follows this extraordinary Japanese celebrity on his mission to elongate life.
A documentary movie on IIT - the world’s toughest educational institute to get into (acceptance rate - 1.7%) Students pay only $700 to study the best-in-the-world education. There are 15 IIT’s in India, the best ones being Mumbai, Delhi, Kharagpur, Chennai, Kanpur and Roorkee.
Preview for the feature film about Trans-humanism, mind uploading and the merging of human consciousness with artificial intelligence. The film was funded by Terasem, and it premiered at the 2009 Woodstock Festival. An additional IEET article on it can be found HERE.
Salman Khan speaks here at Web 2.0 about Khan Academy and its spectacular success in the education field. Bill Gates has called Khan “his favorite educator” and Khan was recently picked by Wired as one of the future’s 50 most influential people.
Whole Brain Emulation creates synthetic humans by implementing their thought processes in forthcoming hardware and software, which could arrive by mid-century. What are the rights of these uploads and how will they impact our economy, and society? Anders Sandberg of the Future Of Humanity Institute of the University of Oxford talks about these issues.
Dr. Koene is a Dutch neuroscientist. He’s director of analysis at Halcyon Molecular, co-founder of Carbon Copies, and co-founder/director at the Neural Engineering Corporation of Massachusetts. He first proposed “Whole Brain Emulation.”
In this week’s episode George Dvorsky talks about the new mathematical study which reveals that our Galaxy should have been colonized by now, why Canadians are considering a ban on prenatal gender information, the growing gender imbalance, the latest on the lab-mutated avian flu, why whales are people, health tips to avoid cognitive decline, and why the sex-chip may not be such a good idea.
Dr. J. chats with Brian Ramirez Kyle, the creator of Metabods.com, a website devoted to gay erotic fantasies about boytaurs, men with multiple limbs or genitals, and radical size and shape transformations. We talk about how radical body mod subcultures might be on the cutting edge of the fight for tolerance of transhuman diversity. (First broadcast in 2004).
Describes the Lies and Future of our present economic system, which will replace human labor with machines. From the Lecture “The Zeitgeist Movement orientation activist guide video”
“The 99% are rising up! Everywhere, people are waking up and realizing how the world works and that their rights as free human beings are slowly being taken away from them.. “
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