Transhumanism
| At last year's Humanity + Conference in Australia, a panel consisting of Aubrey de Grey, Natasha Vita-More and Sean Elliot discussed 'How to Create Technologies That Will Dramatically Improve the World?' |
The discussion goes through a number of themes and areas including speculation by Vita-More that Steve Jobs could have done much for the transhumanist movement if he did not have a mindset that death is a noble act.
Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation, a California-based charity dedicated to combating the aging process. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Rejuvenation Research, the world's highest-impact peer-reviewed journal focused on intervention in aging.
He received his BA and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1985 and 2000 respectively. His original field was computer science, and he did research in the private sector for six years in the area of software verification before switching to biogerontology in the mid-1990s.
His research interests encompass the characterization of all the accumulating and eventually pathogenic molecular and cellular side-effects of metabolism ("damage") that constitute mammalian aging and the design of interventions to repair and/or obviate that damage. He has developed a possibly comprehensive plan for such repair, termed Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS), which breaks aging down into seven major classes of damage and identifies detailed approaches to addressing each one. Dr. de Grey is a Fellow of both the Gerontological Society of America and the American Aging Association, and sits on the editorial and scientific advisory boards of numerous journals and organisations.
Since the 1980s, Natasha Vita-More has focused on human-technology integration and the relationship between arts/design, science. Her work is concerned with methods for expanding human capabilities through what she calls emerging, speculative media (ESM) for artistic, design-based approaches to human enhancement, life extension and expanding life onto non-biological systems.
This notion is derived from nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive/neurosciences (NBIC). Instead of being limited to these approaches, Vita-More suggests NBIC+ (+ refers to robotics, cryonics and methods not yet developed).
Along with her husband, Max More, Vita-More is the co-editor of The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future. She has been featured in Wired, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Net Business, Teleopolis, and Village Voice and has appeared in over twenty-four televised documentaries on the future and culture. Vita-Morehas exhibited media artworks at National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Brooks Memorial Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Women In Video, Telluride Film Festival, and United States Film Festival and recently “Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age”. Natasha has been the recipient of several awards: First Place Award at Brooks Memorial Museum, Special Recognition at Women in Video.
Vita-More currently is the Chairman of Humanity+ ; Fellow, Ethics and Emerging Technologies; Fellow, Hybrid Reality Institute; Visiting Scholar at 21st Century Medicine, track adviser at the Singularity University.
SOURCE Adam Ford
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