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How old is too old? Some scientists think the body has a metabolic stop-sign at about age 122; others think that through new technologies, genetics, and robotics we can expand our longevity to a quarter millennium. And one man, IEET Fellow Aubrey de Grey, thinks immortality is possible — that the first human who will reach 1000 years of age has already been born.
Philosopher Susan Anderson is teaching machines how to behave ethically.
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In contrast to contemporary arguments that using the web is making people and culture dumber and shallower, Andy Clark advocates the idea that knowledgeable use of digital media might, as Doug Engelbart put it, raise the collective IQ of cultures and extend the minds of individuals.
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Yet, the chances are that our own descendants will ask the same question, with the same incomprehension, about some of our practices today.
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Rodney Brooks looks at where we're going over the next 30 years.
"I think it very likely – in fact inevitable – that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting phase in the evolution of the universe," Davies writes. "If we ever encounter extraterrestrial intelligence, I believe it is overwhelmingly likely to be post-biological in nature."
Brain researcher Susan Greenfield claims 'mind change' as a result of using modern technology is one of humanity's greatest threats
As people have become more and more dependent on the Internet, some have concerns that all that information (and the devices that help us connect to it) could be doing seriously damage to the way we think, interact and learn. But Nick Bilton, lead writer for the New York Times Bits Blog, explains in his new book that he's lived his whole life connected and managed to turn out just fine. He says scientific research backs up his experience.
# The internet is changing the way in which we think, says tech writer Nicholas Carr
# Growing consensus that more needs to be done to identify how effects of tech
# Oxford University's Baroness Greenfield called it as important as 'climate change'
# Carr believes that internet could lessen our abilities to think deeply or creatively
Will we someday grow replacement brains or do whole-brain transplants? Three questions leap to mind: Why would we? Could we? And should we?
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Researchers have long overestimated the role our genes play in determining intelligence. As it turns out, cognitive skills do not depend on ethnicity, and are far more malleable than once thought. Targeted encouragement can help children from socially challenged families make better use of their potential.
With unprecedented leaps in human longevity over the last century, are drastically longer lives within our grasp?
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According to some thinkers technology is what makes us human. Others argue that new technologies threaten human dignity and our very existence.
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Could it be that, in some sense, the point of evolution has been to create these social brains, and maybe even to weave them into a giant, loosely organized planetary brain?
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Cloth sensors could make the Internet of Things fashionable.
This paper presents the principal findings from a three-year research project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) on ethics of human enhancement technologies. To help untangle this ongoing debate, we have organized the discussion as a list of questions and answers, starting with background issues and moving to specific concerns, including: freedom & autonomy, health & safety, fairness & equity, societal disruption, and human dignity. Each question-and-answer pair is largely self-contained, allowing the reader to skip to those issues of interest without affecting continuity.
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