It took me quite a while to realize that many people are very offended by the idea of living forever. Many are offended by the idea of living beyond a natural lifespan. I often find myself asking these people how many years they think it is OK to exist? 100? 500? 1,000? The answers vary [...]

Modern societies produce new things that are simply amazing:
A team of researchers in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has managed to imitate the complex structures found in ice and mollusk shells, and the ultra-strong material could lead to everything from stronger artificial bone to airplane parts.
Anyone who has had a hip [...]

Many transhumanists worry that the United States is losing its technology edge due to increasingly onerous and counterproductive government regulations. Including these guys:
The first meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research took place in Rome earlier this month. Heart in the right place, but shackling freedom to the modern (increasingly socialist, increasingly [...]

Worth noting: The Instapundit is the blogger most closely aligned with my worldview, according to his own description of himself.
Looking at the list of “crunch con” characteristics on the back cover I’m quite sure I don’t fit the description (can you be a libertarian transhumanist crunchy-con? I doubt it), but it’s an interesting thesis.
I wonder [...]

As a transhumanist, I had high hopes for The ImmortTalist Manifesto. I should have taken the time to read all the Amazon.com reader reviews first (about half the reviews appear fake, which is telling in and of itself). This book is written at a high school level from a perspective of arrogance and self-righteousness. It’s [...]