Looks like a good example of cultural uplift. I also recommend the RadioLab episode, " Lucy ." Description: The haunting epi...

Humanity’s relationship with animals has varied drastically over the millennia. Animals were once (and some still are) our predators, cont...

Paul Raven of Futurismic has taken me to task on my views of animal uplift. In response to my question, "Ultimately, we have to ask o...

Hmm, should we call it techekinesis ? The latest brain-computer interfaces are meeting smart home technology and virtual gaming. From New Sc...

In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity has forsaken smartphones and the trappings of technology for "HPlus," a direct con...

Biological uplift is one of two major ways in which a human or animal can be endowed with superior or alternative ways of physical or psycho...

Robert Ettinger, the father of modern cryonics, passed away yesterday on July 23 at the age of 92. He will primarily be remembered for his 1...

Wow, animal uplift just got a little bit more real: a recent report from the Academy of Medical Science suggests that action is needed now ...

Two very cool and sobering TED talks have recently been released that are worth checking out: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending th...

I think I'm a little too excited about this upcoming movie, but the animal uplift themes have put me over the top.

From TIME : " Return of the Meat-Eaters: Many Lapsed Vegetarians Become 'Ethical Omnivores' ": In 2005, a CBS News study ...

The idea of a pending technological Singularity is under attack again with a number of prominent futurists arguing against the possibility—t...

This optical illusion is yet another not-so-subtle reminder that everything we think we see is the result of our brain presenting the worl...

The new issue of Cryonics Magazine features an article by Ken Hayworth, president of the Brain Preservation Foundation, in which he explain...

Adam Curtis' new documentary mini-series is now airing on the BBC:   All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace . The series will inv...

Yes, this from the guy who once said that meat eaters are bad people. I guess that must make me a bad person. Well, unlike many other ca...

Primal Tanshumanism. Oxymoron? Maybe. Burgeoning lifestyle choice for a growing number of futurists? Most definitely. Look, it’s 2011 ...

Whoa. Guess where I'm going to be opening night...

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Clement Vidal of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels recently published a neat paper called ...