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Guillotine Simulator

Abolition is Imperative in Kurzweil’s Sixth Epoch Scenario

Political Science – A Costly Misnomer

End of Eating Food

To See The Future Of Technology, Look At The People Using It For Crime

How the Catholic Bishops Outsmarted Washington Voters

Apple Pie May Be American, But Apple Computer Isn’t - Not Anymore

Backing into Eden: Chapter 1 &2 – We are Responsible / The Beasts of the Field

Futurist Jamais Cascio envisions a sustainable, resilient world

What’s the Rational Choice? Risk, Values and the Politics of Geoengineering


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eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming
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The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
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The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays
by eds. Max More and Natasha Vita-More

Artificial Slaves: Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture
by Kevin LaGrandeur


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Envisioning the Future Program


Victor Frankenstein lamented in 1816, "How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Today, the most common objections to emerging technologies come from science fiction, from Frankenstein and Brave New World to Gattaca and the Terminator.

At the same time, there are examples in literature and film that depict technology as contributing to an abundant, peaceful future. Through our Envisioning the Future program, we engage with culture critics, artists, writers, filmmakers and consumers to explore the biopolitics implicit in depictions of technology in literature, film and television.

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Culture News from the IEET


Guillotine Simulator  May 25, 2013

Abolition is Imperative in Kurzweil’s Sixth Epoch Scenario by Jønathan Lyons    May 25, 2013

Political Science – A Costly Misnomer by P. Tittle  Bite-Sized Subversions  May 25, 2013

End of Eating Food by Dick Pelletier  Ethical Technology  May 25, 2013

To See The Future Of Technology, Look At The People Using It For Crime  May 24, 2013

How the Catholic Bishops Outsmarted Washington Voters by Valerie Tarico  Away Point  May 24, 2013

Apple Pie May Be American, But Apple Computer Isn’t - Not Anymore by Richard Eskow  Huff Post Politics  May 24, 2013

Backing into Eden: Chapter 1 &2 – We are Responsible / The Beasts of the Field by Brenda Cooper  Backing into Eden  May 23, 2013

Futurist Jamais Cascio envisions a sustainable, resilient world  May 23, 2013

What’s the Rational Choice? Risk, Values and the Politics of Geoengineering  May 23, 2013

Prison Industrial Complex in America  May 23, 2013

Engineering the Future: Geoengineering by Christopher Reinert  Ethical Technology  May 23, 2013

The American prison system by Massimo Pigliucci  Rationally Speaking  May 22, 2013

Imagination Experiment: Visualizing Transformative Tech by Jamais Cascio  Open the Future  May 21, 2013

From Mars to the Multiverse  May 21, 2013


Culture Books from the IEET


eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming by William Sims Bainbridge (2013)

The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet by Ramez Naam (2013)

The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays by eds. Max More and Natasha Vita-More (2013)

Artificial Slaves: Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture by Kevin LaGrandeur (2013)

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff (2012)

Time of Punishment by Marcelo Rinesi (2012)

Nexus by Ramez Naam (2012)

Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization by Parag Khanna & Ayesha Khanna (2012)

Existence by David Brin (2012)

Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future by Marshall Brain (2012)

The Astrobiological Landscape: Philosophical Foundations of the Study of Cosmic Life by Milan M. Ćirković (2012)

Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People: An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics by Arthur Caplan (2012)

From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto On the Freedom Of Form by Martine Rothblatt (2012)

Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics by Patrick Lin (2011)

Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff (2011)

Invent Utopia Now, Transhumanist Suggestions for the Pre-Singularity Era by Hank Pellissier (2011)

The Ontociders by Marcelo Rinesi (2011)

The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World by William Sims Bainbridge (2010)

Online Multiplayer Games by William Sims Bainbridge (2010)

Mutare o perire. La sfida del transumanesimo (Change or Perish. The Challenge of Transhumanism) by Riccardo Campa (2010)

Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual by William Sims Bainbridge (2009)

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (2009)

Science Fiction and Philosophy by Susan Schneider (2008)

Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow’s People by Eds. Peter Healey and Steve Rayner (2008)

Human Futures: Art in the Age of Uncertainty by Andy Miah (Editor) (2008)

The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind by Ben Goertzel (2006)

Testament (volumes 1-4) by Douglas Rushkoff (2005)

Get Back in the Box : Innovation from the Inside Out by Douglas Rushkoff (2005)

Times of Trouble (Book Three of Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles) by Russell Blackford (2005)

An Evil Hour (Book Two of Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles) by Russell Blackford (2005)

Kong Reborn by Russell Blackford (2005)

Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism by Doug Rushkoff (2005)

More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement by Ramez Naam (2005)

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future by James Hughes (2004)

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance by Mihail Roco and William Sims Bainbridge (2003)

Transhuman Space: Broken Dreams by Jamais Cascio (2003)

Dark Futures by Russell Blackford (2002)

Strange Constellations : A History of Australian Science Fiction by Russell Blackford, Van Ikin, and Sean McMullen  (1999)

To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek by Athena Andreadis (1999)

Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick’s Space/Time Fiction by Russell Blackford (1998)

Media Virus: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture by Douglas Rushkoff (1996)

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