Have you heard of the transhumanist movement? Can you imagine if one of the movies you watch came to be and humans are able to become immortal or indestructible? Does it sound too grandiose? Well, not for transhumanists. Transhumanism is a physical, cultural, and social movement that supports the use of science and technological advancements …
The earliest known documentation of xenotransplantation was in the year 1667 when a French doctor by the name of Jean-Baptiste Denys made use of blood collected from farm animals to perform human blood transfusions. This animal-to-human transplantation had some initial success, as Denys’ first patient, a fifteen-year-old boy, survived upon receiving sheep’s blood into his …
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Cosmism is a philosophical theory that blends science, faith, and religious traditionalism. It is a theory that believes that the cosmos is self-existent and was not created by gods and emerged from the writings of Hugo de Garis. Russian cosmism or Soviet Cosmism are other names for cosmism and they mean the same thing: a …
Our ever-evolving world has greeted the most technologically advanced era that humanity has ever seen and many times, keeping up with everything is a big challenge. Humans are so vast in interest and thought, and you will find the most interesting discourses in the world began with one person just thinking “What if we did …
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Like other pro-neuro-enhancement movements such as transhumanism and extropianism, posthumanism is a concept that has also undergone a lot of scrutiny in the scientific space. The big question of “is posthumanism ethical?” has been subject to endless debate, as well as the distinctions or similarities that be between humanism and posthumanism. First of all, it …
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow . Concurrent with its publication by Tor Books , published under the Creative Commons license, the author of the book is authorized to publish it. The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2004.
Distress is a 1995 science fiction novel by Australian writer Greg Egan .
Diaspora is a hard science novel by the Australian writer Greg Egan which first appeared in print in 1997.
Daemon and Freedom TM a two-part novel by the author Daniel Suarez about a distributed, persistent computer application, The Daemon , that begins to change the real world after the original programmer’s death.
Daedalus; or, Science and the Future is a book by the British scientist JBS Haldane , published in England in 1924. It was the text of a reading [1] read to the Heretics Society (an intellectual club at the University of Cambridge ) on 4 February 1923.