Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
The IEET is a center for voices arguing for a responsible, constructive, ethical approach to the most powerful emerging technologies.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies A lot worse and a little better.

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Future historians may look back and refer to the decade just concluding as The Bush Era. From the flawed, flummoxing election of 2000 to the disastrous decision to invade and occupy Iraq, and from his ...
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Three thumbs up and three thumbs down.

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1. Transhumanism’s intellectual explosion: Cyborg Citizen, Citizen Cyborg, Our Posthuman Future, Liberation Biology, The Future of Human Nature, and “Beyond Therapy” were all written, ...
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Ups and downs from the decade just ending.

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1) Movie theater commercials. Man, it used to be just sitting through trailers before the movie. I love going to the movie theater, it’s one of my favorite pastimes. I hate that advertisers have figured out that we as an audience are captive and can be forced to watch them hawk products. ...
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The Pew Research Center recently asked Americans their opinions on whether “recent changes and trends” were for the better, for the worse, or hadn’t made much difference:
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Ratatouille is a fantasy, but a fantasy so close to reality that the fantastic bits almost go unnoticed. The moments where the film asks us to suspend our disbelief are so few and so minor that we forget the film is about a talking rat who can cook. ...
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Peter Singer argues that we should not proceed to develop a hypothetical life-extension drug, based on a scenario where developing the drug would fail to achieve the greatest sum of universal happiness over time. But that’s the wrong test.
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When asked in a recently concluded poll, where they would choose to live if they had to leave their current nation of residence, IEET readers made Europe their top choice, at 19%, but outer space was just behind, at 18%.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Have the last ten years filled you with awe at the pace of scientific discovery? Or are you more, like, meh…

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By 2010, according to the fictional reckoning of Arthur C. Clarke, humans were supposed to be capable of conducting crewed missions to Jupiter. In reality, we’re not even close to that.
Michael P. Gusek
Michael P. Gusek
Too much faith in Reductionism.
Tue at 8:53am
Jerry
Jerry
i think we need our understanding of society to catch up with our technology.
Tue at 3:24pm
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies From IEET contributor Andrew Maynard, a list of ten top technologies worth watching...

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What can we expect as we enter the second decade of the twenty first century? What are the emerging technology trends that are going to be hitting the headlines over the next ten years?
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Giulio Prisco Advocating Visionary Futurism and Practical Technoprogressivism
It is possible to both be a practical technoprogressive, working for safe, equitable consequences of emerging technologies today, and a visionary inspired by a future with immortal lives among ...the stars.

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It is possible to both be a practical technoprogressive, working for safe, equitable consequences of emerging technologies today, and a visionary inspired by a future with immortal lives among the stars.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies "The exploding literature on existential risks is
largely due to transhumanist efforts, while the very same intellectuals
working on issues of techno-eschatology are also responsible for some rather implausibly utopian visions of the future."

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As far as I can tell, contemporary society—from pop culture to academia—is infused with a paradoxical mixture of technological optimism and pessimism.
Grant Morgan Czerepak
Grant Morgan Czerepak
People are mixed up. So, what's new?

"If you cannot say it in simple English it is probably not worth saying." -- to paraphrase George Orwell.
Mon at 10:39am
Paige
Paige
...and in simple English, what is this saying? When we take what we think is a step forward we are really taking two back?
Mon at 11:20am
Pan Covenant
Pan Covenant
Maybe the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about!
Mon at 12:11pm
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Mindclones—consciousness in post-biological media—will feel as full of life as we biological creatures.

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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” - Stephen Hawking
Logan
Logan
They may not be alive, but they'll think they are alive, which may be the same thing.
December 26 at 3:55pm
Jay
Jay
I'll prepare the dotcom site in advance of the need. Getting ready to collaborate with whomever...The rest of the digitaea domain types are still available. I propose that several of us take command of the options. The dice are already in motion
December 26 at 3:58pm
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Kyle Munkittrick Could Gonzo Vote?
My family has the tradition (as do a lot of other families, I think) of watching The Muppet Christmas Carol at some point the week of Christmas. I got to overthinking things per the usual and now am worried about whether or not The Grea...t Gonzo could cast a vote.

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