[tt] Emergence - IEET News for the week ending May 6, 2007

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EMERGENCE

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
News for the week ending May 6, 2007

Editor: Dr. James J. Hughes
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IEET EVENTS

21st CENTURY RIGHTS
NYC, NY USA
2007 May 11-13
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ieetiheu20070510/

Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science
Chicago, Illinois, USA
2007 Jul 23-23
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/londiv20070723/

IEET NEWS

Poll: Is radio telescope SETI a waste of time?

Still strong support among two thirds of IEET readers for the underfunded efforts to detect radio transmissions from extraterrestrial intelligence. Probably all those who support radio telescope SETI also support other forms of SETI - such as optical - as well.

New poll: Should apes be granted the rights of human children?

For reference, see this news out of Austria and Spain.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/poll20070506/

ARTICLES

Mike Treder: Russia and Nanotechnology
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20070505/
Of the many questions that must be answered about molecular manufacturing, one of the most important is: Who will attain the technology first?

Jamais Cascio: The End of Conventional War
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20070506/
Few would dispute that the American military is, far and away, the most powerful conventional armed force on the planet, even as depleted as it is by the Iraq war. At the same time, few would dispute that this military force is, and by all signs will continue to be, insufficient to quell the insurgency in Iraq.

MULTIMEDIA

Existential risks, AI, genetic engineering and space exploration (05/05)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20070428/
Dr. J. and IEET contributor Michael Anissimov, author of the Accelerating Future blog, talk about the work of the Lifeboat Foundation, which is trying to develop solutions to risks to the future of the human race. We also discuss the challenge of self-willed machine intelligence. Then I read a bit of the essay "Genetic Engineering and Space Exploration" by the IEET's newest Fellow, Athena Andreadis.

Disability: Change Bodies or Society? (05/05)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20070505/
Joseph Stramondo is chair of the advocacy committee of the Little People of America and a doctoral candidate working on enhancement and disability ethics issues. We talk about disability, enhancement, Rawls, and the Nussbaum capabilities approach to social policy.

ETHICS & TECH IN THE NEWS

CyborgLife news of the week
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/clnews20070506/

Roundup of technoprogressive morality news of the week
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tpmoral200705/

US Supreme Court and Patent Office push back against biotech IP overreach
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ippushback200705/

NYT profiles the Longevity Dividend
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/nytlongdiv/

Will Robots Spark the Revolution?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/robotrev/

More whackery from the X-Files branch of the Xian Right
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/horn200705/

Is rape in Second Life a crime?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rapesl200705/

Hacking the future of sex: wearable joysticks
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/joystick200705/

Electroconvulsive treatments stimulate growth of new neurons in the brain
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ecs200705/

Brazil will make AIDS drug under "compulsory license"
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/lula200705/

Austrians sue for recognition of chimp personhood
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ausperson200705/

Apocalypse as Godsend
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/apocgodsend/

Fahrenheit 451 TV-show-avatar tech becomes real
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/f451tech/

Annalee on menstruation suppression and body autonomy
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/nobleed/

Horgan: How to wire your brain for religious ecstasy
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/horgan200704/

ALL EVENTS

Human2.0: new minds, new bodies, new identities
Boston, MA USA
2007 May 9-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/human2mit/

21st CENTURY RIGHTS
NYC, NY USA
2007 May 11-13
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ieetiheu20070510/

OECD Forum 2007
Paris, France
2007 May 14-15
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/oecd07/

Nanotechnology and Society
Amherst, US
2007 May 17-17
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20070517amherst/

Intl Assoc of Biomedical Gerontology
Greece
2007 May 20-24
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20070520iabg/

Conf on Repro & Genetic Tech
Nanaimo, Canada
2007 May 24-26
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/reproconf20070524/

Reprotech & Parenthood Conference
Netanya, Israel
2007 Jun 1-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/reprotechisrael20070611/

Mind and Life Summer Research Institute
Garrison, New York, USA
2007 Jun 3-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/mlsri2007/

Who Gets To Live? Genetic Engineering and Human Diversity7
Chicago, Illinois
2007 Jun 6-6
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/genediv20070606/

Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology
Toronto, Canada
2007 Jun 16-19
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ficcadat/

11th Int. Conf. on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons
Montréal, Canada
2007 Jun 18-21
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/transed2007/

Politics & Economics of Global Poverty & Health Care
Hiram, Ohio, USA
2007 Jun 21-24
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hiram2007/

Assoc for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Las Vegas, Nevada USA
2007 Jun 22-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/assc11/

Intl Conf on Intelligent Processing & Manufacturing of Materials
Italy
2007 Jun 24-28
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20070624ipmm/

Aubrey @ Genetics and Justice
Oxford, UK
2007 Jul 2-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/genjustice2007/

Aubrey @ the National Council for Palliative Care
London, UK
2007 Jul 3-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20070703ncpc/

SFRA 2007 Celebrating the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Kansas City, Missouri
2007 Jul 5-8
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/sfra2007/

VI European Congress of IAGG
St. Petersburg, Russia
2007 Jul 5-8
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/iaggvi/

International Association for Homes and Services for the Ageing 7th International Conference
St. Julian's, Malta
2007 Jul 18-20
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/iahsa2007/

Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science
Chicago, Illinois
2007 Jul 23-23
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/londiv20070723/

Toward a Science of Consciousness 2007
Budapest, Hungary
2007 Jul 23-26
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tsc2007/

Hughes, de Grey, Bostrom and more @ Transvision 2007
Chicago, IL USA
2007 Jul 24-26
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tv20070724/

Generations United 14th International Conference
Washington, D.C., USA
2007 Jul 24-27
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/gu14/

Treder at WorldFuture 2007
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
2007 Jul 29-31
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/trederworldfuture_2007/

Third Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence Conference
Cambridge, UK
2007 Sep 6-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/sens3/

Hughes, Cascio @ Singularity Summit II
San Francisco, CA USA
2007 Sep 8-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/singsummitii/

Ethics, philosophy and public health
Cardiff, UK
2007 Sep 15-18
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cardiff20070915/

H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy
London, UK
2007 Sep 28-29
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hgwells20070928/

Global Well-Being Forum
Wash DC, USA
2007 Oct 4-6
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/globalwellbeing200710/

Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Beijing, China
2007 Oct 21-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20071021aorcgg/

Hughes at The Future of our Species - evolution, disease and sustainable development
Heidelberg, Germany
2007 Nov 2-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/emboembl200711/

Genetics, Human Rights and the Next Phase of Human Evolution
U of Calgary, Canada
2007 Nov 15-17
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/genetics20071115/

Definition of Death Network
Havana, Cuba
2008 May 27-30
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/defdeath2008/

International Philosophical Congress
Seoul, South Korea
2008 Jul 30-5
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ipcxii/

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