[tt] Emergence - IEET News for November 30, 2007

Hughes, James J. <James.Hughes at trincoll.edu> on Fri Nov 30 22:27:12 UTC 2007 
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EMERGENCE

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
News for the week ending November 30, 2007

Editor: Dr. James J. Hughes
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IEET NEWS


Spring IEET Distance Learning Course on the Longevity Dividend

This Fall I (J. Hughes) taught a course - "Living Healthier and Longer:
Opportunities and Challenges" - here at Trinity College on the effects
of healthy aging on public policy, and the arguments for a Longevity
Dividend/anti-aging research program. This Spring Dale C., Aubrey de G.,
Anne C., Kristi S. and I will be co-teaching this as a ten-week distance
learning course through the IEET for a nominal fee (something like
$100). 
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/longdivdislc/


Climate change poll

Looks like only one in eight of you still deny the existence of
anthropogenic climate change. 
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/poll20071114/


Announcing the next phase of Betterhumans

IEET's George Dvorsky announces some changes at IEET ally Betterhumans,
such as the fact that he is the new editor-in-chief: 
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/dvorsky20071114/


Join the IEET Facebook Group

Thanks to intrepid IEET intern Jonathan Pfeiffer we now have an IEET
Facebook group. Check it out!
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/facebookieet/



ARTICLES

J. Hughes: Promoting BioFuturist Policy Brainstorming Among the Young

When I was twelve my Dad gave me a subscription to The Futurist.
Mainstream futurology kind of paled for me next to the science fiction I
was reading, but at least I knew early on that there were people trying
to anticipate and prepare for a radically different future. Imagine my
surprise thirty five years later, after a decade of bio-futurist work,
to discover that in 1974, one year after I started reading The Futurist,
a program for junior futurists was started which today includes more
than 250,000 kids in grades 4-12 worldwide.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20071130/


Dale Carrico: Giulio Prisco's Defense of Superlativity

Fellow IEETer Giulio Prisco has written a piece "In Defense of
Superlativity" which which attempts to respond, although not very
directly, to the critiques of Superlative Technodevelopmental
Formulations that I have been developing at Amor Mundi.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carrico20071128/


Giulio Prisco: In Defense of Superlativity

Many transhumanist ideas are products of fertile and creative
imaginations. Some people would add "unhampered by the normal
constraints of scientific and philosophical discipline". Is that so? My
answer: NO, or at least not necessarily.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/prisco20071126/


Andy Miah: Letter to Utopia, v1.0

A Reply to 'Letter from Utopia' (Nick Bostrom, 2007)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20071126/


Jamais Cascio: Green Tomorrows: the Scenarios

The four boxes represent a variety of "response" scenarios, each
embracing elements of the prevention, mitigation, and remediation
approaches to solving the climate crisis.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20071125/


Anne Corwin: A Menagerie of Longevity

Ageless Animals is a research project devoted to investigating the most
long-lived denizens of the animal kingdom. 
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/corwin20071125/


V.R. Manoj: Transcendent Consciousness for Transcendent Technologies

When I was five, I played with my first toy robot. 
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/manoj20071124/


Dale Carrico: The Technodevelopmental Quartet

I am fascinated by a few broad concurrent "trends" (to use that awfully
abused and debased word of the corporate-militarist Futurological
Congress) that seem to me likely to articulate (but never to determine)
especially forcefully (but always unpredictably) the politics of
technoscientific change, and emerging longevity and modification
medicine (so-called) is one of these.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/carrico20071124/


J. Hughes: Virtue Engineering

Jeriaska of the Accelerating Future People Database has transcribed
another talk by an IEET person, the 2006 Transvision (Helsinki) talk by
IEET Executive Director James Hughes "Virtue Engineering: Applications
of Neurotechnology to Improve Moral Behavior."
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20071120/


Jamais Cascio: I Spy With My Orbital Eye...

Satellite monitoring is enabling surveillance of the health of the
planet, both human and ecological.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20071114/


Russell Blackford: Genetics, ethics, and the state - revisited

For the past decade, the public sphere has buzzed with arguments about
real or imagined genetic technologies, such as embryonic sex selection,
reproductive cloning, and human genetic enhancement - much of the noise
prompted by the announcement, back in 1997, of Dolly the cloned sheep.
How far have we come in that time?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/blackford20071111/


Mike Treder: Review of Military Nanotechnology

Deeply researched and carefully worded, Military Nanotechnology is an
overview of an emerging technology that could trigger a new arms race
and gravely threaten international security and stability.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20071111/


Russell Blackford: Shadows of the Endarkenment from Montreal

Margaret Somerville, the high priestess of the ethical endarkenment, is
at it again. This new article in the Ottawa Citizen provides her latest
irrational protestations about the imagined evils of biomedical research
and innovation.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/blackford20071107/


Mike Treder: Two Disappointing Novels

Two recent attempts at near-term speculation could have benefited from
stronger story-telling skills.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20071104/


Jamais Cascio: Bluetooth Lifelogging and SimPolitics

How soon until we see one of these? The "artifact from the future" shown
above is my visualization of a bluetooth headset with an embedded
cameraphone-style camera, able to send the video to one's handheld for
recording and display. Given that fairly decent cameras can be put into
the very small, low-power space of a phone, it stands to reason
that-very soon, if not today-clever designers could successfully build
one into a headset.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20071102/


J. Hughes: Waiting for the Great Leap...Forward?

The People's Database Project has transcribed the talk I gave September
8, 2007 at the Singularity Summit in San Francisco.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20070908/


MULTIMEDIA

Space Collective and the Future of Everything (11/28)

"SpaceCollective.org: Where forward thinking terrestrials share ideas
and information about the state of the species, their planet and the
universe, living the lives of science fiction. Conceived by Rene Daalder
in collaboration with Internet designer Folkert Gorter, assisted by
editor Aaron Ohlmann, is an attempt at universal broadcasting.
SpaceCollective will broadcast to the universe, beaming to outer space a
month by month digital time capsule of human civilization." (Download
Volume magazine's interview with Daalder on SpaceCollective)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/spacecollectiveorg/


Embryogenesis in Zero G (11/28)

Ninaki Priddy writes "I just graduated architecture school, and did this
great workshop with the SF director, Rene Daalder. He's a part of this
movement among designers that are designing for space. This is my
scenario of women having to give birth in a zero gravity environment.
All the video footage is found, and the last bit of the woman in her
life pod is what i designed in the 3d program MAYA."
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/embzerog/


Epicurus Deconstructs Capitalism (11/24)

Dixon is working on a thesis on the relationship of Epicurus,
Machiavelli, Gramsci, Althusser and capitalism under globalization. We
remember the good old days of left-wing rabble-rousing.  MP3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20071125/


Hughes on H+ on ATT Tech TV (11/22)

Dr. Hughes was interviewed about transhumanism for AT&T's new Tech
Channel.
Part One: Transhumanism; Part Two: Humanness; Part Three: Black Goo
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20071122/


Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy? (11/13)

In this memorable TED talk, Dan Gilbert demonstrates just how poor we
humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy.
Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of "Stumbling
on Happiness". (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 22:02)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/gilberthappy/


Starbucked (11/10)

Taylor Clark is author of Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine,
Commerce, and Culture.  MP3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20071110/


Science and the meditation boom (11/10)

Mindfulness based meditation is being touted as beneficial for any
number of afflictions - from anxiety to asthma; social phobia to
psoriasis. But what is it, and how can science scrutinize subjective
states of mind? Three scientists at high powered institutions discuss
how they've turned a personal passion into a professional investigation.
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/scimedboom/


Neuroscience and The Enlightenment Machine (11/09)

In this episode Buddhist Geeks spoke with neuroscientist and Buddhist
meditator Daniel Rizzuto. Rizzuto is the project manager for the Caltech
Neural Prosthetics Group. Vince and Rizzuto discussed a number of topics
including the link between contemplative and scientific methodologies,
some of the potential technologies that could emerge for the
neuroscientific research, including Daniel's favorite, an empathic
training device. 
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/neurobudgeeks/


Hughes on H+ with Jesse Katzman (11/07)

This 45 minute interview was conducted in preparation for a talk Dr.
Hughes will give at Macalester College at 8pm on November 15, 2007,
entitled "Manimals, Cyborgs, and Gattaca: The Biopolitics of Human
Enhancement Technologies."
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughesstio2007/



ETHICS & TECH IN THE NEWS

Patenting Sirtuin drugs?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/patenting_sirtuin/

Kinsley on "Why Science Can't Save the GOP"
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/kinsleygop/

A-life farming
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/a_life_farming/

Tierney on Kass' Anti-Logic
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tierney20071126/

The Ethical Imperative of Life Extension
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ord20071126/

Hughes on Saving Humanity in Spain
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20071119/

Hughes and Bostrom profiled in German review of H+ History
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hhistocoenen/



ALL EVENTS

Stem Cells and Artificial Reproductive Technologies
Ghent, Belgium
2007 Nov 30-1
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/stcemorart/

Chat With Jay Olshansky at the Immortality Institute
Virtual
2007 Dec 2-2
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/imminstsjo/

Miah on Enhancement @ RSA
London, UK
2007 Dec 3-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miahrsa07/

RSA Conf on Human Enhancement
London, UK
2007 Dec 3-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rsa200712/

Second Indian Bioethics Conference
Bangalore, Karnataka, India 
2007 Dec 6-8
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ijme2007/

Jamais at Metaverse Summit 2007
Berlin, Germany
2007 Dec 6-7
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/metaverse_2007/

Advancing Technology and Services to Promote Quality of Life
St. Petersburg, Florida
2008 Feb 20-23
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/atspql2008/

First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Memphis, US
2008 Mar 1-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20080301agi/

Aubrey @ BioCon Conf Contra Life Extension
Phoenix, Arizona
2008 Mar 3-8
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cbhd200803/

O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
San Diego, California
2008 Mar 3-6
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/oreilly2008/

Technology and Persons with Disabilities
Northridge, California
2008 Mar 10-15
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tpdc2008/

Surveillance in Everyday Life
Sheffield, UK
2008 Apr 2-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/surveillance2008/

Science of Consciousness 2008
Tucson, Arizona
2008 Apr 8-12
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/scicon2008/

Cognitive Aging
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2008 Apr 10-14
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cac2008/

Aubrey @ Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress
Paris, France
2008 Apr 10-14
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubrey200804/

Universal Access and Assistive Technology
Cambridge, UK
2008 Apr 13-16
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/uaat2008/

Assistive Technologies
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
2008 Apr 16-18
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/iasted2008/

Hughes @ Evolution in the 21st Century
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2008 Apr 17-18
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/evobio08/

Miah @ Enhancement Medicine
Brussels, Belgium
2008 May 9-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah/

Reproethics Conf
Cape Town, South Africa
2008 May 26-28
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/reproethics_ctsa08/

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

Neural Interfaces Conference
Cleveland
2008 Jun 15-18
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/neural_interfaces_conference/

Ethics, Technology and Identity
Delft, Netherlands
2008 Jun 18-20
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eti2008/

EuroScience Open Forum
Barcelona, Spain
2008 Jul 18-22
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/esof2008/

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

Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Montreal, Canada
2008 Aug 2-7
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/augaltcom2008/

Governing Emerging Technologies
Big Sky, MT
2008 Aug 17-22
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20080817gordon/

9th World Congress of Bioethics
Rijeka and Opatija, Croatia
2008 Sep 3-8
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/9wcbioethics/


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