At least that’s what Aubrey de Grey believes. I want to believe it as well. I am not interested in dying at this time. Transhumanists may not be in the media spotlight now, but it’s likely the future will change that.
…James Hughes, an administrator and instructor at Trinity College in Hartford, is a leading transhumanist [...]

My weekend was busier than my week.Saturday we went white water rafting on the Ocoee River. Everyone seemed to have a really great time, and I can highly recommend the company we used - Ocoee Rafting. Our trip lasted about four and a half hours, and our guide, Emily, was pretty competent. She ran our [...]

The worlds that can become are fascinating to me. I am a neophyte transhumanist, futurist, and adherent to the idea of the singularity. When I read about nanotechnology, I am most excited not by trying to guess what form nanobots will take, but by the fact that educated people in some scientific and intellectual circles [...]

This weekend, I fired a variety of pistols and a rifle at a dummy that had a Holy Bible and then a Holy Quran as his sole means of protection from the projectiles. The results were, at least in my mind, illustrative. The end result of my experiment is that I am much less confident in using the 32 ACP pistols in my collection as primary defensive weapons - although they are the easiest to conceal I’m afraid they would be useless in many situations.

Techs, like other human beings, often enjoy practical jokes. But techs think differently than other people. One of my employees, let’s call him Tech X, spent the weekend concocting a practical joke at the expense of the junior manager in my IT department (I am the senior manager.) The guy is away at training right [...]