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Bookmark Julian Savulescu: The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God
Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it if it benefited us.

September 9 2015, 11:27am | Comments
Bookmark The Dark Mountain Manifesto: A Brief Review | Post-futurum
“The machine is stuttering and the engineers are in panic. They are wondering if perhaps they do not understand it as well as they imagined. They are wondering whether they are…

July 30 2015, 6:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Rhizome | How to See Infrastructure: A Guide for Seven Billion Primates
Allan Sekula, Gas Terminal, Barcelona (2008) from the series "Methane for all.

July 4 2015, 4:21pm | Comments
Bookmark The end of progress | New Philosopher
David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by Zan Boag, editor of New Philosopher. Zan Boag: Contemporary society places…

May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments
Bookmark Why we should not fear AI. Yet (Wired UK)
Nigel Shadbolt, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton and cofounder of the Open Data Institute, will be debating the future of AI on 24 May at HowTheLightGetsIn, a philosophy and music…

May 14 2015, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene
There’s a word for this new era we live in: the Anthropocene. This term, taken up by geologists, pondered by intellectuals and discussed in the pages of publications such as The…

March 30 2015, 9:45am | Comments
Bookmark Welcome to the Future Nauseous
Both science fiction and futurism seem to miss an important piece of how the future actually turns into the present. They fail to capture the way we don’t seem to notice…

December 29 2014, 7:54am | Comments
Bookmark The Elon Musk interview on Mars colonisation – Ross Andersen – Aeon
‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in…

October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark Futurist Ray Kurzweil isn’t worried about climate change | Need to Know…
Author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil famously and accurately predicted that a computer would beat a man at chess by 1998, that technologies that help spread information would accelerate the collapse…

October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark The Deeper I Stare Into the Internet, the More I See the…
We have a strange, sad way of leaving things behind. Not just regular old things—spent notebooks, obsolete consumer electronics, whatever—but big things that happen to be old.

October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark Why Ray Kurzweil is Wrong: Computers Won’t Be Smarter Than Us Anytime…
“When Kurzweil first started talking about the “singularity”, a conceit he borrowed from the science-fiction writer Vernor Vinge, he was dismissed as a fantasist.

March 18 2014, 12:45pm | Comments
Bookmark Reflections on the “Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics” | e-flux
The “Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics” (MAP)1 opens with a broad acknowledgment of the dramatic scenario of the current crisis: Cataclysm. The denial of the future. An imminent apocalypse. But don’t…

March 6 2014, 3:24pm | Comments
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On the mutual influnce of science fiction and innovation http://t.co/kcf1zwyqb3

January 11 2014, 5:30am | Comments
Bookmark « The Closing of the Scientific Mind Commentary Magazine
The huge cultural authority science has acquired over the past century imposes large duties on every scientist. Scientists have acquired the power to impress and intimidate every time they open their…

January 6 2014, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark h+ Magazine | Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing…
During writing a paper for the 100 Year Starship Symposium, I wished to convince the starship designers that they should acknowledge the dynamics of high-technology economy, which may be crucial for…

December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments
Bookmark Today, cyber means war.
Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change,…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the Internet/Web I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have no original example of this phenomenon to kick things off. I have this image in…

April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments
Bookmark Foucault’s boomerang: the new military urbanism
As our planet urbanizes more rapidly than ever before, an insidious set of boomerang effects, linking security doctrine in cities in the global North with those in the South, are permeating…

March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments
Bookmark Interview with a writer: John Gray » Spectator Blogs
In his new book The Silence of Animals, the philosopher John Gray explores why human beings continue to use myth to give purpose to their lives. Drawing from the material of…

March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments
Bookmark The culture of the copy by James Panero - The New Criterion
Technological revolutions are far less obvious than political revolutions to the generations that live through them. This is true even as new tools, for better and worse, shift human history more…

January 22 2013, 3:27pm | Comments
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Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments
Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments
Bookmark We Are Viral From the Beginning
Viruses are constantly swarming into our bodies. Sometimes they make us sick; sometimes our immune systems vanquish them; and sometimes they become a part of ourselves. A type of virus called…

June 27 2012, 3:32pm | Comments
Bookmark Paradigms Regained
The following is an excerpt from Ian Hacking's introduction to the new edition of Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which commemorates the book's 50th anniversary. To be published…

June 27 2012, 3:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Neanderthals Getting a Colourful Upgrade
A chorus of smart, modern minds is rising over the hills of anthropology that the ancient Neanderthals of Europe weren't anywhere nearly as dumb, insufferable and unrecognizable as everyone thought all…

May 23 2012, 9:44am | Comments
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May 17 2012, 5:46am | Comments
Bookmark The Arrow of Time (Debategraph)
The debate about the nature of time and its passage is a long and venerable one. The issues addressed by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides about whether time 'flows'…

May 11 2012, 8:12am | Comments
Bookmark Did a Copying Mistake Build Man's Brain?
A copying error appears to be responsible for critical features of the human brain that distinguish us from our closest primate kin, new research finds. When tested out in mice, researchers…

May 9 2012, 8:14am | Comments
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When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

April 29 2012, 2:07pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments
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When independent thought flourishes

March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments
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Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart

March 11 2012, 4:12am | Comments

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