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Upgraded and adapted from the Moot , "JimF" snarks about an interview in the transhumanoid magazine humanity-plus -- so if you d...

We tell cameras the truth.

George Lucas : People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and ...

SF Bay Guardian To call seminal SF perfomer and alpha theater aficionado Arturo Galster merely a "drag queen" is to do his rang...

Richard Jones has been a sympathetic critic of superlative futurology for years, and his training and research makes him the rare scientist...

First being degraded into having, then having degraded into appearing, and now appearing degraded into targeting.... We have arrived at t...

David Dayen writes in Salon today about the improving prospects for a great idea I've written about wistfully here from time to time :...

Salon : [L]aw professor Susan Crawford argues that “high-speed wired Internet access is as basic to innovation, economic growth, social comm...

I received this question from a reader, and this is my response to him. I am also elaborating the response a bit to provide more context for...

Milton Friedman, "Free To Lose: A Modest Proposal." #BookTitleConfessions Henry Hazlitt: "Economics in One Deception: The S...

I couldn't agree more : Obviously they're a scary crowd to mock, because they, you know, have guns. Which is part of the point. But ...

In the latest communication from SFAI Administration dissuading adjuncts from voting to organize with SEIU, Dean Rachel Schreiber writes: T...

The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of A City (1931) is a fresco painted by Diego Rivera which is a source of great pride, and an ...

The Telegraph : Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform ...

Upgraded and adapted from an exchange in the Moot "JimF" commented: You know, I had (or attempted to have) [an] argument (or ...

Existenz itself has now linked to my Forum Page on its issue, "The Future of Humanity and the Question of Post-Humanity" to enco...

The Journal Existenz has published an issue (Volume 8/2, Fall 2013 ISSN: 1932-1066) entitled The Future of Humanity and the Question of ...

Existenz has published its volume on The Future of Humanity and the Question of Post-Humanity , which includes what is probably my own most ...

"What will life be like when digital brains outnumber humans?" Of course, Dumb Dvorsky asks the question . Of course, he said ...