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April 1, 2011

The potential implications of human enhancement comprise one of the main reasons why I’m at CSPO, so I was excited and a little worried when the trailer for the movie Limitless appeared. Would Hollywood do justice to the topic, or would they make yet another trite cautionary tale?

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Augmenting Humanity @HeatSync Labs

Michael Burnam-Fink

February 8, 2011

Filed under Transhumanism

I just got back from HeatSync Labs, where the local hackers are taking their eyes off of 3D printing, near-space missions, tesla coils and cylon Roombas and working on something a little closer to home: themselves.

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Report from Transforming Humanity

Michael Burnam-Fink

December 6, 2010

Filed under Human Enhancement

This past weekend (Dec 3-4), I attended the “Transforming Humanity: Fantasy? Dream? Nightmare?” Conference hosted by the Center for Inquiry, Penn Center for Bioethics, and the Penn Center for Neuroscience and Society. James Hughes and George Dvorsky of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies give their blow-by-blow record of the conference, but I'd like to step back and provide an overview of the field, and its position today.

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Gossiping Ourselves to Death

Michael Burnam-Fink

September 23, 2010

Filed under Internet

I recently read Neil Postman's excellent Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman offers a critique of the corrosive effect of television on American discourse, education and culture.... What does Postman’s theory imply when extended to the defining media of the 21st century, the Internet?

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