From: Steve Witham (sw@tiac.net)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 12:37:54 MDT
These are forwarded from James Hughes <James.Hughes@trincoll.edu>,
secretary of the WTA, and edited by me. All about the recent WTA
conference at Yale.
http://www.transhumanism.org/tv/2003usa/
This is the stuff I was looking for (responses to) in the extropians
archive. I think Dr. J. cc'd to extropians but he isn't on the list
or something.
1) A somewhat hostile report on the Center for Genetics and Society
website:
>TRANSHUMANISM RELOADED
>- by Stacy Robison
>
>For three days in June, scholars, computer programmers, scientists,
>social theorists, and bioethicists gathered at Yale University for
>Transvision USA, a conference sponsored by the World Transhumanist
>Association (WTA). This year's event, the first Transvision
>conference to be held in North America, was an attempt to promote
>transhumanism among mainstream scholars and scientists in the United
>States. Approximately 130 people from around the world attended.
>
>What is transhumanism and why all the fuss?
>...
>http://www.genetics-and-society.org/newsletter/index.html
2) William Bainbridge's address to Haldane dinner June 28
(In the middle of this a very funny plan for personal immortality
shows up.)
>Many of you expressed an interest in reading Bill's very interesting
>remarks. Bill is a veteran sociologist and computer scientist who
>manages AI funding at the National Science Foundation, and has a
>long interest in transhumanism and "personality capture." He is
>central to the NSF initiative to mobilize the converging
>technologies of nano, bio, AI and cognitive science to "improve
>human performance."
>
>He talk has now been published in our on-line journal Transhumanity:
>
>http://www.transhumanism.com/articles_more.php?id=697_0_4_0_M
3) Further reading:
>The World Transhumanist Association FAQ
>
>http://www.transhumanism.org/resources/faq.html
>
>
>James Hughes, "The Politics of Transhumanism"
>
>http://www.changesurfer.com/Acad/TranshumPolitics.htm
>
>
>Ed Regis, "Meet the Extropians," Wired magazine (October 1994)
>
>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/extropians_pr.html
>
>
>Ron Bailey, "Making the Future Safe: Notes from the WTA's annual
>conference," Reason Online (July 2, 2003)
>
>http://www.reason.com/rb/rb070203.shtml
4) Dr. J.'s own website has a lot of cool interviews and articles
(Dr. J. is a lefty, use at your own risk, I'm not trying to
provoke here)
http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon
--Steve (fnerd)
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