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h+ Mafia? No.
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. What did Sarah Lacy of TechCrunch find when she took a look “Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia”? There is the same kind of “in the family” interactions between the various companies started by ex-Facebook employees as there are for the other technology…
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Donate to Emerging Technology-Related Organizations
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. The link above is a bundle of several links to fundraisers for emerging technology-related organizations. Donations have risen significantly in the past two years as transhumanism, emerging technologies, and the Technological Singularity concept have reached mainstream audiences. The list below is just a sample…
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Prediction: 1080p Digital Media in 2011
Although a few companies already claim to stream 1080p video, Apple will announce 1080p television and movie downloads and streaming for purchase or rental through iTunes and Apple TV in the United States, sparking a rash of similar announcements from other digital media vendors like Amazon and Netflix. The H.264 video will play back at…
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Rosetta at 21 Lutetia
The Rosetta spacecraft has returned the first images from its flyby of the asteroid 21 Lutetia. The image on the right was taken while the spacecraft was approximately 80,000 kilometers away and it shows a lumpy, cratered world. Lutetia is approximately 100 km in diameter. It is the largest asteroid yet visited by a spacecraft.…
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Avatar’s Accomplishments
Avatar has accomplished more than most movies in recent memory, including the introduction of ideas long popular with transhumanists to a more mainstream audience. Is it also helping to lead to more public acceptance of transhumanism and emerging technologies?
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Interim Technologies Big at CES 2010
Based on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada, consumers in 2010 can look forward to a bounty of ebook readers, 3-D HDTVs, and computers in a wide range of body types. However, technologies just now breaking out of the lab promise to make many of these new consumer electronics…
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Ten Years of Frontier Channel
Ten years of Frontier Channel, including predictions, commentary, and news reporting.
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Avatar: Transhumanist Perspective
James Cameron’s Avatar is an astonishing and must-see movie. It is also a huge disappointment.
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Grassroots Effort to Raise Money for SENS Research
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. The SENS Foundation and supporters of radical life extension are turning to a social networking platform in an attempt to raise over $1 million for research. By the end of 2009 they hope to sign up 10,000 people committed to donating $100 each. The…
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The Seas Beckon
The Seasteading Institute has a busy fall season coming up with their second annual conference and the Ephemerisle “floating festival of politics, community and art.”
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Growing Pains for Digital Media
2008 ended with a bang for digital media: growing audiences for streaming long-form video, several deals bringing ebooks to the iPhone, and rumors that Apple and the Big Three music labels were hashing out a deal to complete the removal of digital rights management (DRM) from the music on iTunes that begin with EMI. That…
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Four Years Later – “Science, Pseudoscience, and My Love of the End of the World”
Frontier Channel covers the Technological Singularity, cryonics, transhumanism, and other topics some might consider fringe or even pseudoscience. Are they?
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The State of Digital Media 2008
It is that time of the year to highlight the key digital media developments in 2008, those trends leading into 2009, and where digital media is heading by the end of the next decade.
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Friend of Chris Heward, Friend of Your Own Life Extension
Life extension researcher Chris Heward was recently diagnosed with cancer. See how you can help.
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Top Killers Identified By World Health Organization
Cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and cancer remain the world’s top killers of humans according to “The Global Burden of Disease” report from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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SS08 Emerging Technologies Workshop on Twitter
Twitter-ing at the SS08 Emerging Technologies Workshop.
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The Singularity Summit 2008 Coverage
The Singularity Summit is held each year by The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. This year the event will be held in San Jose, California and Frontier Channel will be there! Stay tuned for updates from the SS08 Emerging Tech Workshop on Friday, October 24 and the Singularity Summit on Saturday, October 25, 2008.
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Cities on the Sea
Head out to sea! Some activists, engineers and technology enthusiasts are hoping to build homes and cities on the high seas, far away from existing governments and deep within a new frontier. The Seasteading ’08 Conference will be held on October 10, 2008.
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First Beams Circulate the Large Hadron Collider
Photons take a trip around the Large Hadron Collider for the first time and a University of Arizona researcher speaks to the public about the success. Dr. Elliot Cheu explained just what this complex machine is setting out to do and how it could change the way we understand the universe.
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Šteins Flyby Animated
Along with first images, anaglyphs and initial data results from Rosetta’s successful flyby of Asteroid (2867) Šteins, mission team members put together an animation of the flyby: More Information Rosetta Rosetta Blog Press Release: “Steins: A diamond in the sky“ Related Books [amazon-product]0387726721[/amazon-product] [amazon-product]1402025726[/amazon-product] [amazon-product]038777517X[/amazon-product]
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Šteins Up Close
Hours after its successful flyby of “the jewel of the solar system”, the robotic traveler Rosetta continues to return data from the encounter. From a point of light discovered in 1969 into a world of new vistas, here is Asteroid (2867) Šteins: At a press conference to announce preliminary results and to show the first…
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Amazon Video On Demand Arrives
Credit: Screenshot of Amazon Video On Demand [REVIEW] — Late last year Adobe released an upgrade to their ubiquitous Flash software that enabled higher quality video. In response, overall video streaming quality on the web has improved as various video services have upgraded their offerings. Amazon is the latest to make the leap, turning their…
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Asteroid (2867) Šteins Flyby Coming
Rosetta, the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft on its way to orbit and deploy a lander on a comet, is now approaching Asteroid (2867) Šteins. The flyby will bring the spacecraft within 800 km of Šteins on Friday evening, September 5, 2008. The ESA will provide a webcast about the event beginning on September 06,…
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Planetary Provenance – Venus
Venus is the Earth-that-could-have-been and the Earth-that-still-might-be. Our so called sister planet orbits second from the Sun. Cloudy, hot, and unhospitable to life as we know it, Venus demonstrates as well as Mars why comparative planetary science can greatly improve understanding of our own planet. The greenhouse effect on Venus results in a poorly understood phenomena…
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Planetary Provenance – Mercury
I will be speaking at the Sunday, September 7 meeting of the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix about “Images of Mars and Interplanetary Science.” This series of posts in preparation for the event will explore current spacecraft activities in planetary science. After the astronomy revolt that left the solar system with eight planets, four dwarf…
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Aging 2008
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. On Friday, June 27, 2008 from 4:00 PM through 8:00 PM PDT at UCLA, scientists and other anti-aging luminaries will discuss “Aging: the Disease, the Cure, the Implications,” [defunct link] a Methuselah Foundation co-sponsored event. The ADCI event is open to the public and…
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Raw Data from Enceladus Available
One of many new Cassini images received after yesterday’s successful Enceladus flyby. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute – “W00043237.jpg“ Slow server speeds mark the arrival of new raw data on the Cassini-Huygens website taken during yesterday’s successful Enceladus flyby. In addition to the images, Cassini sampled the material in Enceladus’ water ice plumes erupting from…
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Closest Enceladus Flyby Yet
Cassini took this image of Enceladus’ water ice plumes on November 27, 2005. New pictures and other data from the most recent flyby on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 are expected on Thursday, March 13, 2008. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute – “Jet Blue“ NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed the closest flyby of Saturn’s mysterious…
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MESSENGER Returns First Image of Never Viewed Side of Mercury
Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington – “MESSENGER’s First Look at Mercury’s Previously Unseen Side“ A heavily cratered side of the planet Mercury never before seen has been revealed by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. A single image was released by NASA this evening after…
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The 2.0 Project on Marblejars
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Commentary] [Defunct video and link] Mark McAllister started The 2.0 Project a couple years ago to bring attention to the plight of those who cannot secure the insurance or funding required for cryonics preservation services due to pre-existing conditions. I interviewed him for a…
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Events Listing Moved
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. The sidebar list of upcoming events has been moved to a new website: h+ Events [defunct link] This new site is part of a collection of sites and services related to transhumanism under the h+ banner. All future science and technology event listings…
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Transhumanist Organization Announces Fundraising Campaign
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [DISCLOSURE: Richard Leis, Jr. is an adviser of a transhumanist club at the University of Arizona and has donated US$150 to the World Transhumanist Association for this fundraising campaign.] The World Transhumanist Association (WTA) announced yesterday the launch of a fundraising campaign [defunct link]…
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Five Planets Make Record System
Image Credit: NASA – “Plentiful Planetary System” – “This artist’s concept shows four of the five planets that orbit 55 Cancri, a star much like our own.” NASA announced during a press telecon this morning the discovery of a fifth planet in the 55 Cancri system. This sets a new record for exoplanets in a…
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Armadillo Aerospace’s Latest Competition Attempt Fails
With the moon visible overhead, Armadillo Aerospace unsuccessfully attempted to win the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge at the Wirefly X PRIZE Cup this weekend at Holloman Air Force Base. The only competitor of nine ready to go for the event, Armadillo Aerospace, led by John Carmack of Doom and Quake fame, experienced both successes…
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X PRIZE Cup – Table of Contents
A race to space is shaping up in the private industry and once a year the public is invited to see the latest breakthroughs, vehicles, and competitions intended to accelerate this progress. The Wirefly X PRIZE Cup was held October 26 through 28 at the Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA. Combined…
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HiRISE Releases False Color Images of Potential MSL Landing Sites
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) team today released a slew of new false color images of the surface of Mars to the public, the culmination of many months of software and automation development.
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“No Graveyard”
“Alcor is no graveyard.”
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Alcor Conference – Table of Contents
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. Frontier Channel liveblogging from the 7th Alcor Conference: Day 1 Day 2
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Sputnik 1: 50 Years Later
[History] | [Commentary] Plenty of space blogs, organizations, and media outlets are marked last Thursday as the 50 year anniversary of the first artificial satellite in Earth orbit, Sputnik 1. On October 04, 1957 Russia surprised the United States by demonstrating their technological prowess with the successful launch of Sputnik 1. The “artificial moon” did…
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Rumor: Artificial Life
Although the following news appears to have been confirmed by Craig Venter, it should be viewed as rumor until there is an official announcement. The Guardian is reporting that Venter and a team of scientists have created artificial life, in the form of an artificial chromosome that can make use of another organism’s cellular machinery…
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Alcor Conference – Chris Heward
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] [Recap] Chris Heward discussed his work on the “Kronos Longitudinal Aging Study (KLAS)” as a measurement of human aging. KRONOS Science Laboratory [defunct link] is a research institution in Phoenix, AZ, USA. Heward showed a graph of progress…
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Alcor Conference – Christine Peterson
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] Christine Peterson presented “Good News, Bad News, Surprising News” about life extension. She now spends about half time studying life extension as an enthusiast. She began by stating that terminology matters. Which terms are best: life extension, health…
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Alcor Conference – Calvin Mercer
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] [Recap] Calvin Mercer asked “Cryonics and Religion: Friends or Foes?” Cryonics, Mercer believes, will require support from more people than just scientists, including religious people. How should cryogenics supporters present these ideas to religious people? How the discussion…
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Alcor Conference – Morning Break
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] Popcorn, cookies, and pretzels. We talked to a couple who are musicians and Alcor members about how art can be used to promote life extension and transhumanism.
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Alcor Conference – Calvin Mercer
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] [Recap] Calvin Mercer asked “Cryonics and Religion: Friends or Foes?” Cryonics, Mercer believes, will require support from more people than just scientists, including religious people. How should cryogenics supporters present these ideas to religious people? How the discussion…
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Alcor Conference – Steven Harris
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] [Recap] Steven Harris is a researcher developing “Rapid Body Cooling for Prevention of Brain Damage.” Rapid body cooling technologies are important to both cryonics and emerging short-term treatments. Hypothermia induced by lowering the body temperature by 4 degrees…
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Alcor Conference – Morning Panel
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] Day two of the Alcor Conference. The day began with the “Human Cryopreservation and Critical Care Medicine Panel,” including Alcor’s Tanya Jones, critical care physician David Crippen and bioethicist Leslie Whetstine and moderated by Aschwin de Wolf. [Recap]…
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Alcor Conference – Alcor Board of Directors Panel
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] Stephen Van Sickle, Ralph Merkle, Michael R. Seidl, and Brian Wowk of the Alcor Board of Directors answered questions from the audience for the last session of the day. The Board addressed questions about the current state of…
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Alcor Conference – Aubrey de Grey
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] [Recap] Does Aubrey de Grey really need an introduction at this point? His public proposal for repairing and reversing the damage of aging, SENS, and his public admission of being an Alcor member were the topics he discussed…
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Alcor Conference – Afternoon Break
Read Richard’s current thoughts about transhumanism and related fringe topics here. [Alcor Conference – Table of Contents] Ice cream! Networking! Being nearly run over by busy organizers!
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