[tt] Emergence - IEET News for March 7, 2010
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News for March 7, 2010
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A NOTE FROM DR. J.
When I started studying social research back in 1979, in my first sociology course in college, half a dozen studies from the 1960s and 1970s had become famous examples of edginess. Stanley Milgram's experiments<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment> at Yale in the 1960s on how far people would go in obediently shocking fake subjects to death had suggested the psychological trauma research subjects can be exposed to without their consent. Laud Humphreys<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laud_Humphreys#Tearoom_Trade> had written a study of married men having gay sex at rest stops by covertly observing them, tracking them to their homes and interviewing them in the guise of a health surveyor. Zimbardo's 1971 prison simulation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment> in a Stanford basement had been stopped after six days because the pretend guards started brutalizing the pretend inmates.
In response to these cases the professional associations for psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists had adopted ethics codes of conduct for their members. Medicine, on the other hand, had already gone much further. The Nazi medical experiments, the Tuskegee syphilis "study," and many other horrifying abuses of human subjects had spurred not only voluntary honor codes, but also the creation of formal regulatory bodies, "institutional review boards<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board> (IRBs)," to review and approve any proposed research project. Researchers were asked to explicitly document the steps they would take to secure the consent of research subjects, to explain the risks and benefits of research, to protect patient confidentiality, and to ensure that research would be stopped if it began to be clearly harmful. By the late 1970s all hospitals and universities had IRBs to approve medical research. But even in the early 1990s, when I was teaching research ethics at the University of Chicago's Center for Clinical Medical Ethics while finishing my sociology doctorate, there was no expectation that social scientists submit all our research to IRBs for approval.
That quickly changed however as IRBs began to expand their mandate to include all psychological and social scientific research. By 1996, when I joined a research project at the University of Connecticut on injection drugs users and HIV risk-reduction, the sociologists I worked with were fully acclimated to applying for IRB approval. But then their research was quasi-medical and entailed many potential risks for the subjects. The idea that simply conducting low-risk surveys or interviews should also have to pass IRB scrutiny was still foreign to me when I joined the IRB at Trinity College in 2002.
I immediately began to chafe and grouse at the scrutiny that low-risk survey projects were being given. The IRB models had been developed to keep vulnerable people from being experimented on without their consent by doctors and scientists, not to catch the rare Zimbardo, Milgram or Humphreys. I began to forward articles to the committee about the mounting resistance from social scientists to the inappropriate application of the medical model for regulation. In 2009 the committee engaged in a lengthy review and upgrade of all of its forms and procedures, leading to many passionate debates about what constituted research, whether ethnography, student projects and journalistic research must be submitted, and what exactly the meaning of "exempt" was. The NIH has clear categories of research which are exempt, but then says that only an IRB can determine if a project is truly exempt, and prescribes that researchers submit, and IRBs judge, requests for exemption. I argued unsuccessfully that this was too broad a net when applied to social scientific research. I began to think of myself as a research libertarian.
Of course this Spring I was appointed Chair of the IRB, and have been in charge of explaining the new regulations and procedures to faculty and students. One new regulation, for instance, is the requirement that all participants in research projects complete a one hour training in scientific ethics on the NIH website<http://phrp.nihtraining.com/>. Managing this process and explaining these new regulations I have begun to change my mind about their utility.
I think one reason I resisted so long was that I have long been embarrassed about the covert research I conducted as an undergraduate on church congregations speaking in tongues. My professors were very unhappy when I turned in my research report and they obliged me to write an ethical coda to my bachelor's thesis. If I had proposed such research to an IRB today I'm sure it would not have been approved. I didn't harm my subjects in any way, and there are legitimate grounds for conducting covert and deceptive research. But any undergraduate sociologist coming out of Trinity College today will have had to think about and defend the ethics of their research in a way that I would certainly have benefited from being required to do.
Today when we read celebrations of brilliant young people inventing DIY bio-bricks in their basements it can sound like jack-booted thuggery to insist that they should be subject to biosafety regulations. But as bio- and nano- technologies become increasingly accessible and powerful it is vital that we ensure their safety not just with voluntary commitments to scientific and research ethics but with new regulatory structures as well.
Here at the IEET we are trying to make the case for a technoprogressive approach to emerging technologies, an approach that is pro-science and pro-progress, but which also recognizes that we have a collective responsibility to provide scientists and technologists the oversight that they require. Slogging through the FDA approval process or biosafety protocols or OSHA compliance, like chafing under IRB scrutiny, is unpleasant, and the processes can be improved, rationalized and streamlined. But without them we can be certain of a trail of harm that would set back techno-progress far more than any red tape. Take it from a reformed research libertarian: if you develop good rules and learn how to live by them it makes for much better science.
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IEET NEWS
IEET Readers See China as Future Power<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/poll20100223/> (Feb 23, 2010) By a wide margin, respondents to a recently concluded poll chose China as the nation most likely to displace the United States as the leading power in the world by 2050.
Natasha Vita-More on Transhumanism<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20100222vita-more/> (Feb 22, 2010) The only way for us to survive is to evolve. Transhumanism - a movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve the mental and physical characteristics and capacities of humans - is the way forward, writes Natasha Vita-More.
Susan Schneider Wins Essay Award<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/schneider201001/> (Feb 11, 2010) The Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics has awarded IEET Fellow Dr. Susan Schneider with the Future of Bioethics Essay Award for her neuroethics piece, "Transforming and Enhancing the Human Brain."
Battle Between the Sexes<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/poll20100210/> (Feb 10, 2010) When it comes to the future of gender relations, IEET readers can't seem to agree on anything.
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ARTICLES
03/06
Giulio Prisco
Future Evolution of Virtual Worlds as Communication Environments<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/prisco201003/>
Some virtual worlds, notably Second Life, are not games at all but internet-based collaboration contexts in which people can create virtual objects, simulated architecture, and working groups.
03/06
Ben Goertzel
Joy and Pain<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/goertzel20100304/> Joy and pain as Firsts are, like all Firsts<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/goertzel20100301/>, raw and unanalyzable. They simply are what they are.
03/05
Jamais Cascio
Augmented (Fashion) Reality<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20100305/> Earthquakes, global warming, patent lawsuits... it's all a bit much, sometimes. Even a sober-minded "moral guide to the future" needs a break. So today, we talk about fashion.
03/04
Ben Goertzel
Patterns All the Way Down!<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/goertzel20100304a/> You've probably heard the story...
03/03
Kyle Munkittrick
Why Do We Accept Aging?<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/munkittrick20100303/>
When I was in undergrad, a professor asked our whole class a strange question. The question was strange because it seemed totally out of context, but I think he had a point, so I present it here as a worthy thought experiment.
03/03
David Brin
Water and Wrenches, Belts and Suspenders<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brin20100303/> A rational approach to exploring Mars...
03/02
Mike Treder
We're All Alone and No One Knows Why<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20100302/>
Does this mean humanity is trapped inside an expansion boundary from which we can never escape?
03/01
J. Hughes
Problems of Transhumanism: Belief in Progress vs. Rational Uncertainty<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20100301/>
Most Enlightenment thinkers believed in the inevitability of human political and technological progress, transforming the Christian expectation that history was predetermined to end in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth into a conviction that humanity would be able to continually improve itself. But the scientific worldview does not support historical inevitability, only uncertainty.
03/01
Ben Goertzel
First, Second, Third<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/goertzel20100301/> Patterns are relationships of a particular sort: a relationship between one entity and a set of others, where the first is judged to represent and simplify the others.
02/28
Kyle Munkittrick
How To Make Sex Better<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/munkittrick20100228/>
Sex, on its own, in the wild, natural and unadorned, is still complicated. Don't believe me? Look at a peacock or a bird of paradise<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS1tEnfkk6M>. Salmon die after they procreate. Sea slugs penis joust. Now throw in evolved human biology, history, culture, technology, and science and you have a real disaster on your hands.
02/28
Ben Scarlato
Nip/Tuck: Ethics and Beauty<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/scarlato20100227/>
While it's common to look at transhumanist themes through the lens of science fiction, I think it's at least as fascinating to consider the ethical issues and themes explored in controversial, well-written dramas such as Nip/Tuck.
02/27
Mike Treder
A Tale of Two Earthquakes<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20100227/>
Lessons we can learn from recent disasters in Haiti and in Chile.
02/27
Jamais Cascio
Futures Thinking: Writing Scenarios<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20100227/>
So what do scenarios actually look like? Here are some real-world examples.
02/24
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Futures 2.0: Rethinking the Discipline<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pang20100224/>
If the field of futures were invented today, what would it look like? What would its intellectual foundations be? Who would it serve and influence? And how would its ideas and insights be put into practice?
02/23
Mike Treder
What takes the place of the nation-state?<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20100223/>
The nation-state as a primary locus of power in the world is a paradigm that dates back only a few hundred years. Could that model be replaced in our lifetimes by something different?
02/22
Martine Rothblatt
Would mindclones be part of the human family?<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rothblatt20100222/> We have been brainwashed to believe that "blood is thicker than water." But we lack familial shared genes with spouses and best friends. In reality what is most important is shared thoughts, experiences and feelings. Affinity based upon genes is as obsolete as loyalty based upon melanin. The beme is mightier than the gene.
02/20
Kyle Munkittrick
Deus Ex<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/munkittrick20100220/> Transhumanism spans a huge swath of intellectual territory, straddling bioethics, philosophy, science fiction, engineering, and computer science. Throw in conspiracy theories and cyberpunk nihilism and you have all the ingredients for Deus Ex.
02/20
David Brin
A Primer on Supply-Side vs Demand-Side Economics<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brin20100220/> Let's step back and examine how, in the U.S., Democrats and Republicans have become identified with two quite opposite economic theories.
02/19
Ben Goertzel
The Theater of Reflective, Deliberative Consciousness<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/goertzel20100219/> Our reflective, deliberative "theater of consciousness" is the way that primal awareness manifests itself in one part of our mind/brain.
02/18
Andrew Maynard
Why I Don't Believe in Technology Innovation<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/maynard20100218/> Sitting here in Denver Airport, I think I have finally lost my faith in technology innovation. And the reason? That fiendish creation of the Gates empire, Microsoft Word.
02/18
Philippe Verdoux
What are 'biological limitations' anyway?<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/verdoux20100218/>
The express aim<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/780/> of enhancement technologies is to overcome our biological limitations: cognitive, emotional and healthspan-related. But what is almost always tacit in discussions of human enhancement is the issue of what exactly constitutes a biological limitation.
02/17
Andrea Kuszewski
The Next Decade of Science: Transdisciplinary Collaboration<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/kuszewski20100217/>
I was asked the question, "What can we expect to see from science in the next decade?" My answer comes from the perspective of a social scientist, as I research social problems from the influence of cognitive neuroscience.
02/16
Kyle Munkittrick
Had I World Enough, and Time<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/munkittrick20100216/>
Say that I knew that medicine had advanced to the point where I could reasonably expect to live to be 350 years old, with the first two decades, of course, going to maturation, and the last two decades resembling our current aging process. What would I do with all of that time?
02/13
David Brin
Distinguishing Climate "Deniers" From "Skeptics"<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brin20100213/> A fair number of people have written in response to my previous posting-The Real Struggle Behind Climate Change: A War on Expertise<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brin20100210/>-griping that I do not get a crucial distinction between climate change "Skeptics" and "Deniers."
02/12
Ben Goertzel
Will and Intention: Illusion and Reality<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/goertzel20100212/>
Nietzsche said that free will is like the commander who takes responsibility, after the fact, for the actions of his troops.
02/11
Mike Treder
Life is Not a Science Fiction Story<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20100211/>
Many transhumanists are under the mistaken impression that the world they live in operates like a science fiction novel. It doesn't.
02/10
Kyle Munkittrick
Our Uncertain Future<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/munkittrick20100210/> The old cliché that the "future is not written" is an allusion to free will and the indeterminate nature of the self. Invoking hope and courage, the implicit corollary is "for we are in the process of writing it." We may yet, it seems, create progress in spite of the looming obstacles before us.
02/10
David Brin
The Real Struggle Behind Climate Change: A War on Expertise<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brin20100210/> The schism over global climate change (GCC) has become an intellectual chasm, across which everyone perceives the other side as Koolaid-drinkers. Although I have mixed views of my own about the science of GCC, and have closely grilled a number of colleagues who are front-line atmospheric scientists (some at JPL), I'm afraid all the anecdotes and politics-drenched "questions" flying about right now aren't shedding light. They are, in fact, quite beside the point. That is because science itself is the main issue: its relevance and utility as a decision-making tool.
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MULTIMEDIA
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://www.archive.org/download/OccultAmerica/20100227horowitz.mp3>
03/06 - Occult America <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr201003occult/> Changesurfer Radio<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> Dr. J. chats with Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation. They talk about the Freemasons, theosophy, Gandhi, Edgar Cayce, the Third Reich and the New Deal, and the eventual occultification of contemporary Christianity.
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/26522?in=00:00&out=54:02>
03/06 - The Science of Earthquakes <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/earthquakes20100306/> Science Saturday<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> IEET Managing Director Mike Treder interviews Arizona State University Professor Ramon Arrowsmith about the what, why, and how of earthquakes.
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://www.archive.org/download/LivingLongerInAnExtremeFuture/20100227canton.mp3>
02/28 - Living Longer in an Extreme Future <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20100228/> Changesurfer Radio<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> Dr. J. chats with Jayme Canton, CEO of the Institute for Global Futures (globalfuturist.com) and author of The Extreme Future. They discuss the convergence of personalized genomic medicine with human enhancement, and the prospects for employment recovery in the global economy.
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ly-KEqy0rs>
02/22 - Atheism, Life Extension and the Singularity <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/blackfordss201002/> Singularity Soup<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> Adam Ford of Singularity Soup interviewed Russell Blackford in October 2009 on his book 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists, atheism and secularism, indigenous spirituality, radical life extension, and technological change, including the Technological Singularity foreseen by Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil.
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://www.archive.org/download/TheMalthusianCatastrophe/20100220robles.mp3>
02/20 - The Malthusian Catastrophe <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20100220mc/> Changesurfer Radio<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> Dr. J. chats with Ernesto Robles, author of The Malthusian Catastrophe, a novel that tells a story about the effects on the world of an anti-aging medicine.
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://www.archive.org/download/TechnologiesOfSelf-awareness/20100220hubbard.mp3>
02/20 - Technologies of Self-Awareness <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20100220/> Changesurfer Radio<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> Dr. J. chats with Jamie Hubbard, a professor of Buddhist Studies at Smith College, and organizer of a conference on the use of neurotechnology to enhance Buddhist practice, April 10, 2010 at Smith College.
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://machineslikeus.com/news/age-or-not-age>
02/14 - To Age or Not to Age <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tanta10/> To Age or Not to Age<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> In this panel discussion moderated by Robert Kane Pappas, director of To Age or Not to Age, distinguished panelists debate the future of anti-aging research. Panelists include: Dr. Robert Butler, Gerontologist, Psychiatrist & Pulitzer-Prize Winner, President and CEO of the International Longevity Center; Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Biomedical Gerontologist, Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation; and Dr. Leonard P. Guarente, Novartis Professor of Biology, MIT, Director, Paul F. Glenn Lab for Science of Aging.
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://www.archive.org/download/ReclaimingTheEnlightenmentPt2/20100213bronner.mp3>
02/13 - Reclaiming the Enlightenment <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20100213bronner/> Changesurfer Radio<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> Dr. J. chats with Dr. Stephen Eric Bronner, professor of political science at Rutgers University and author of Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. (Part 1<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3728/>) (Part 2<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20100213bronner/>).
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://www.archive.org/download/BuddhismAndCognitiveEnhancementPt2/20091205fenton.mp3>
02/13 - Buddhism and Cognitive Enhancement pt 2 <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20091205fenton/> Changesurfer Radio<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> Dr. J. chats with Andrew Fenton who is a part of the Novel Tech Ethics Group at Dalhousie University and the author of "Buddhism and Neuroethics: The Ethics of Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement." Part 2 of 2. (Part 1<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/3525/>)
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://www.openthefuture.com/2010/02/hacking_the_earth_without_void.html>
02/11 - Hacking the Earth (without voiding the warranty) <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/casciogbf10/> Green Business Forum<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> A talk given by IEET Senior Fellow Jamais Cascio last week at the State of Green Business Forum is now available on video. It runs about 22 minutes.
[cid:image015.gif at 01CABBE2.66AFCA00]<http://www.archive.org/download/InventedLanguages/20100206okrent.mp3>
02/06 - Invented Languages <http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20100206/> Changesurfer Radio<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/emergence_weekly> Dr. J. chats with Arika Okrent, author of In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers and the Mad Dreamers who tried to Build a Perfect Language. Dr. Okrent holds a doctorate in linguisitics and cognitive neuroscience from the University of Chicago.
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EVENTS WITH IEET SPEAKERS
2010
Mar 1-31
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Natasha Vita-More presents "Transhuman Difference" @ Niet Normal Difference on Display<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/nvmnn20092010/>
2010
Mar 5-8
Lugano, Switzerland
Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence Conference<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/agi2010/>
2010
Mar 12-21
Austin, TX
Natasha Vita-More @ SXSW 2010<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/SXSW2010/>
2010
Apr 10-11
Manchester, UK
J. Hughes on "When is Enhancement like a Gun?" @ Beyond the Body? Perspectives on Enhancement<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/hughes20100410/>
2010
Apr 22
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
James Hughes on "The Future of Women's Education"<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/hughes20100422/>
2010
Apr 24
London, UK
Bostrom, de Grey & Vita-More @ Humanity+ UK 2010<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/hp2010london/>
2010
May 5-7
Geneva, Switzerland
Cascio, de Grey @ Lift10<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/lift10/>
2010
Sep 2-4
Lake Como, Northern Italy
Transvision 2010<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/tv2010/>
2010
Oct 10-17
NY, NY - The Bahamas - NY, NY
IEET "Future of Medicine" Cruise to the Bahamas<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/fmcb10/>
2010
Dec 3-4
UPenn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Art Caplan et al. @ Transforming Humanity: Fantasy? Dream? Nightmare?<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/eventinfo/thfdn10/>
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October 10-17, 2010
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Marcelo Rinesi<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/rinesi/>
Directors
Nick Bostrom<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/bostrom/>
George Dvorsky<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/dvorsky/>
Mike LaTorra<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/latorra/>
Giulio Prisco<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/prisco/>
Mark Walker<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/walker/>
Board of Trustees
Arthur Caplan<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/caplan/>
Martine Rothblatt<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/rothblatt/>
Dan Stoicescu<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/stoicescu/>
Senior Fellows
William Sims Bainbridge<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/bainbridge/>
Jamais Cascio<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/cascio/>
Fellows
Peter Bebergal<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/bebergal/>
Russell Blackford<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/blackford/>
Marshall Brain<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/brain/>
David Brin<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/brin/>
Riccardo Campa<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/campa/>
Milan M. Ćirković<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/cirkovic/>
Aubrey de Grey<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/degrey/>
Linda M. Glenn<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/glenn/>
Ben Goertzel<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/goertzel/>
Patrick Lin<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/lin/>
Ana Lita<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/lita/>
Andy Miah<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/miah/>
Ramez Naam<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/naam/>
Douglas Rushkoff<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/rushkoff/>
Susan Schneider<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/schneider/>
Wrye Sententia<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/sententia/>
Natasha Vita-More<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/vitamore/>
________________________________
Contact:
Institute for Ethics
and Emerging Technologies<http://ieet.org/>
Executive Director,
Dr. James J. Hughes
Williams 229B, Trinity College
300 Summit St.
Hartford CT 06106 USA
Email: director @ ieet.org<mailto:director at ieet.org>
Phone: 860-297-2376
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