A Lincoln Center (NYC) commission and part of Summer for the City, The Dream Machine Experience with Bina48 “From the mind of the incomparable Nona Hendryx, comes a brand-new experience that pushes the boundaries of art and technology. A Lincoln Center commission and part of Summer for the City, The Dream Machine Experience offers three […]
Gratitude to the Journal of Personal CyberConsciousness for allowing this reposting of Fred and Linda Chamberlin’s original article and to Ruben N. for his careful editing. www.terasemjournals.org
Hello and welcome to Lifenaut. My name is Randy ONeal and I am a new Lifenaut blog contributor. Bruce Duncan invited me to share weekly blog posts for fellow Lifenaut users. I am a guitarist, a programmer, a husband, a futurist, and a father of 4 children. Above all else, I to am a […]
A recent tech story that illustrates the idea of using today’s digital tools to pay “yourself forward” to future generations, caught my eye this week. The news article was Wired Magazine’s article “How a Son Made a Chatbot of His Dying Dad.. James Vlahos’ father was dying, so he set out to save his dad’s memories […]
One of the more controversial ideas of transhumanism is the notion of mind uploading where the essence of a person, their mind, would be transferred to a computer. A related but less ambitious project is constructing a simulated “second self” or mindclone to continue your personality, work and relationships after death. Or perhaps just to […]
“Ten years before the Civil War, the city of Rochester, NY asked Frederick Douglass to speak for its July 4, 1852 celebration. Douglass accepted, but rather than join in the ‘celebration,’ Douglass took it in an unexpected direction.”
“When machines become self aware and their intelligence exceeds human intelligence, or it becomes partners with human intelligence, the development after that … will become exponential.”
