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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 human enhancement technologies come from science fiction, from Frankenstein to Brave New World. At the same time there is a long and broad tradition in literature and film that depicts human enhancement positively, set in societies filled with diversity of intelligent life. Through the Envisioning the Future program we seek to collect images of posthumanity and non-human intelligence, positive, negative and neutral, and engage culture critics, artists, writers, and filmmakers in exploring the lessons to be derived from these cultural expressions.


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Tracking Images of Human Enhancement and NonHuman Intelligence in Popular Culture

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[images] Video on the uncanny valley

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[images] Paradise Is A Lie: A History Of False Utopias

[images] Transhuman the comic

[images] Simulation angst

[images] Lesbian-dominated planets in SF




IO9 Blog

Technoprogressive Commentary on Future Culture

Science Fiction Is The Literature Of Refugees [Escape From Terror]

Sunset On The Lost Planet Of Gallifrey [Concept Art]

The Shiniest Stories on io9 This Week [Io9 Master Control Program]

Nano-Noir and Cyber-Godfathers in "The Digital Plague" [The Digital Plague]

Are Conservatives Better at Creating Futuristic Stories? [Scifi Politics]

No More BSG TV Movies, Please [Battlestar Galactica]

Lost: The Beginning of the End--of Season 4, Anyway [Lost Recap]



IEET on Uvvy Island in Second Life

IEET Board of Directors member Giulio Prisco has built a huge and popular conference facility for the IEET and the World Transhumanist Association on Uvvy Island in the virtual world Second Life at uvvy (232, 217, 24).



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Future Culture News


The Singularity is not what you think by George Dvorsky  Sentient Developments  May 14, 2008

Cobra Commander in ‘08: The Transhuman Choice  May 9, 2008

Bainbridge @ Convergence of the Real and the Virtual: First Scientific Conf in World of Warcraft  May 9, 2008

Pondering Fermi by Jamais Cascio  Open the Future  May 6, 2008

Poll: Is Internet Addiction for Real?  May 5, 2008

21st Century Kids  May 4, 2008

Nano Motors by Mike Treder  Responsible Nanotechnology  May 1, 2008

Technoprogressive, the list  Apr 29, 2008

Emerging Brain Plasticity Research  Apr 28, 2008

Nick Bostrom: “Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.” by George Dvorsky  Sentient Developments  Apr 28, 2008

The Shifgrethor of Changelings by Athena Andreadis  Astrogator's Log  Apr 27, 2008

Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing by Nick Bostrom  Technology Review  Apr 27, 2008

Transhumanism still at the crossroads by Russell Blackford  Metamagician and the Hellfire Club  Apr 22, 2008

Artificial Wisdom by Ben Goertzel  The Multiverse According to Ben  Apr 20, 2008

The Past and Future of Evolution  Apr 20, 2008


Future Culture Books from the IEET


Hectowords by Marcelo Rinesi (2007)

Testament 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)

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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