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Transhumanism: Beyond The Human Body
A forum on upgrading the human condition
28 November 2016
A mutant, a cyborg and a floating disembodied consciousness walk into a bar. Sounds like science fiction? Maybe not: technology is blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
This forum consisted of a discussion about transhumanism and its future scenarios in society. Mr David Wood (chair, London Futurists) and Mr Chris Monteiro (contributor to the page Hpluspedia.org) were the speakers for this event.
Points raised include:
• What qualifies as a "transhuman" change?
• Different types of "upgrades" (e.g. mechanical aids, cognitive aids, gene therapy, reversal of aging)
• When will these technologies arrive?
• Societal implications (e.g. potential overpopulation, creation of a super-elite minority, resistance from conservative groups)
• Philosophical implications: should we do it?
All these, and more!
David Wood, chair of London Futurists, currently works full-time as a futurist speaker, analyst, commentator, and writer. He has spent the last 25 years road-mapping and enabling the rapid growth in capability of smart mobile devices, and has started shifting his focus on to the development of humans themselves. Find out more about him at [ Ссылка ]
Chris Monteiro is the main contributor to H+Pedia, an online repository of information about transhumanism. He does part time political activism, consultancy and research on other topics such as cyber crime, digital rights and technology.
