The possibility of a nationalistic singularity poses some scary ethical questions. Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, author of The Transhumanist Wager, and founder of and…
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The theory that humans will eventually be able to upload our brains to computers has fascinated futurists and neuroscientists for years. By transferring our minds…
For anyone who has seen Ex Machina — an independent science fiction psychological thriller — the idea of transhumanism is nothing new. Ava, a humanoid robot, far exceeds expectations…
Is a Google executive’s vision of a digital afterlife feasible or a fantasy? Living forever while staying healthy and vital has always been one of the oldest…
How do you want to be remembered? As Simon Parkin discovers, we may eventually be able to preserve our entire minds for generations to come…
Future superintelligent AI will be able to reconstruct a model of the personality of a person who lived in the past based on informational traces.…
Humans have been chasing immortality for millennia. In some cultures, you attain a kind of immortality by doing great deeds, which people will talk about…
Your family and friends will be able to interact with a digital “you” that doles out advice—even when you’re gone. Hossein Rahnama knows a CEO…
One evening in the late summer of 2015, Lisa Schwartz was watching television at her Vermont home when an ad for a sleeping pill called…
Earlier this summer the Internet breathed a sigh of relief: the European Parliament voted down a new Copyright Directive that would have required Internet sites…