Tag Archives: cyborgs
Living the life eternal: choose now the method that suits you best
If we are complex machines made up of cells then it logically follows that death is an engineering problem. Several solutions to the death problem have been proposed, three of which seem to be the most promising ones. Cryonics is … Continue reading
Filed under Technologies
Narratives of the future
Prophecy is a crucial informant in the development of western ideologies. Although ritualistic foretelling is found in many cultures it is in the West that foretelling was historically institutionalized, for instance in the Oracle of Delphi or the Prophets of … Continue reading
Filed under Cultural roots, The Future
Cyborg evolution
Augmenting physical ability by making use of techno-prostheses is as instinctive to primates as the sticks that some chimpanzees use to extract termites from their nests. The whole edifice of technological civilization has been exactly that, to implement knowledge collected … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy, The Future
