futurism

What are the ethical implications of future technology? We already have some of these "future" technologies, but they are still in their infancy. I'm talking about 3 areas in particular, nanotechnology, biotechnology and quantum computing and the various ways these can be used together in the...

I admit it, I am a transhumanist. I don't want to hop right into some ideological rant about the entire concept, so I'll just open the floor for discussion. Let me just say that its incredibly obvious that there are numerous design flaws in the human body, and anyone who glorifies it as...

Nowadays we assume that Science - narrowly defined here as a system of gathering knowledge based on the scientific method - is some form of universally applicable system that is nearly flawless. There's no question that it's better than what came before, but just because Aristotle came up with...

I wish this stuff was already real http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Respirocytes.html http://discuss.foresight.org/~josh/Ufog.html The supramundane, suprastellar and space towers talked about in the papers in the science section at the bottom of this site: http://paulbirch.net/...