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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies The assumption that technology innovation will simply come from somewhere is as dangerous as it is wrong.
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As the Summit on the Global Agenda came to a close, I was left with an abiding impression of a looming yet largely hidden potential crisis in global security and prosperity: A failure to develop and use technology innovation effectively in serving the growing needs of society.
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Join the IEET and its co-sponsors for a cruise to the Bahamas, leaving from and returning to Manhattan, New York.
SHIP: Norwegian Jewel
SPONSORS:
1. Appignani Bioethics Center http://humanistbioethics.org/
2. University of Montreal Bioethics Programs http://www.omics-ethics.org/
3. Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technolo…gies http://www.ieet.org/
EDUCATIONAL TOPICS:
Each day’s session will feature a speaker expert in their field.
1. (Oct 11) Extending Healthy Lifespans: Is aging a disease?
2. (Oct 15) Personalizing Diagnosis and Treatments: Tailored medicine for your genetic makeup
3. (Oct 16) Building a Better Brain: Can we become smarter, happier people?
Each day’s program will consist of a 10am to 12pm session, and a 2pm to 4pm session. The curriculum will also include films and discussions of future medicine topics. There will be no educational programming while docked in the Bahamas.
Total cost per registrant (based on double occupancy) will start at $1050. Подробнее
SHIP: Norwegian Jewel
SPONSORS:
1. Appignani Bioethics Center http://humanistbioethics.org/
2. University of Montreal Bioethics Programs http://www.omics-ethics.org/
3. Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technolo…gies http://www.ieet.org/
EDUCATIONAL TOPICS:
Each day’s session will feature a speaker expert in their field.
1. (Oct 11) Extending Healthy Lifespans: Is aging a disease?
2. (Oct 15) Personalizing Diagnosis and Treatments: Tailored medicine for your genetic makeup
3. (Oct 16) Building a Better Brain: Can we become smarter, happier people?
Each day’s program will consist of a 10am to 12pm session, and a 2pm to 4pm session. The curriculum will also include films and discussions of future medicine topics. There will be no educational programming while docked in the Bahamas.
Total cost per registrant (based on double occupancy) will start at $1050. Подробнее
An educational cruise to the Bahamas!
Время:10 октября 2010 г. 12:00
Место проведения:Departing from and returning to Manhattan, New York
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Mark your calendar!
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Join the IEET and our co-sponsors on an educational cruise to the Bahamas, leaving from and returning to Manhattan, New York, October 10-17, 2010.
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Pets Teach Science
A crack team of sixteen trained golden retrievers illustrate the structure of atoms—the particles that make up everything around you. They also show how atoms are weirder than you might think.
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A crack team of sixteen trained golden retrievers illustrate the structure of atoms—the particles that make up everything around you. They also show how atoms are weirder than you might think.
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A crack team of sixteen trained golden retrievers illustrate the structure of atoms—the particles that make up everything around you. They also show how atoms are weirder than you might think.
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HOME | ABOUT | FELLOWS | STAFF | EVENTS | SUPPORT | CONTACT US SECURING THE FUTURE| LONGER HEALTHIER LIFE | RIGHTS OF THE PERSON | ENVISIONING THE FUTURE CYBORG BUDDHA PROJECT | JOURNAL OF EVOLUTION AND TECHNOLOGY
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Astrophysicist and science fiction writer Greg Benford shares his thoughts on the nature of evil.
Источник: ieet.org
It all started with experience, as most philosophical positions should. What’s an idea worth if it cannot withstand the rub of the real?
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies TV cameras first, and later ubiquitous cellphones with cameras, have turned the entire world into a stadium.
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Thierry Henry’s handball during the now infamous France-Ireland World Cup qualifying match, clearly caught on camera and later acknowledged by the player himself, has reignited in some quarters an often discussed call for the use of technology to aid referee decisions during soccer matches. ...
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies An NPR program interviews IEET Senior Fellow Jamais Cascio.
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Futuristic films like “The Terminator” and “Minority Report” imagine a time in which the virtual world can be projected onto the physical world. This technology, known as augmented ...
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Answer our new poll question!
If you had a personal robot that could do only one thing, which ability would you prefer it to have?
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Still no proof, though, that we're NOT living in a simulation.
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IEET readers have weighed in with their opinions about why the LHC project kept running into seemingly endless delays on its way to running protons into each other. Now that it’s back up and operating, perhaps some of our more far-fetched conjectures will be proved wrong.
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Asking the questions is comparatively easy. Finding the right answers is hard.
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Would you run into a burning building to try to save a baby you knew was trapped inside? Would it make a difference if that baby was your own?
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Morphological freedom. Subversive. Anarchist. No doubt.
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In 2003, the idea that one might have a freedom to change one’s body and brain as one liked was being discussed in relation to the Transhumanist FAQ. This idea receives much less attention in the current FAQ, where it is largely replaced by a lesser freedom to enhance. ...
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies IBM’s new cat brain simulation is both more—and less—than it seems.
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A real-time computer-simulated cat brain? Could IBM have come up with a project more likely to trigger Internet excitement?For the handful of you who missed the news, IBM’s Almaden Research Center ...
