The accelerating advances in genetics, brain research, artificial intelligence, bionics and nanotechnology seem to converge to one goal: to overcome human limits and create higher forms of intelligent life and to create transhuman life. Runtime51:36 DescriptionThe accelerating advances in genetics,

a devil’s approach, but a perfectly sensible approach.. visit the authors of this film at http://metanoia-films.org/       & NEURO-MARKETING from mere fan to devoted disciple!  … to create and maintain a whole meaning system for people.. through which they

social life can be remade around scientific principles via: truthviews PLAYLIST - 9parts controlling life forms like you control things… mechanical parts that inter-relate.. face it folks, capitalism sees the world as dead. all this living stuff is just objects for sale.

There’s some amazing things coming down the healthcare pipeline and Daniel Kraft ( @daniel_kraft ) knows a “little” about all of them. We asked him to take us on a rollercoaster-journey through them. Take for example regenerative medicine, which is

Dr. Gabor Forgacs made that prediction. Now, he is making it a reality. Gabor is a University of Missouri researcher doing groundbreaking work in regenerative medicine. He is also the Scientific Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Organovo, the latest

Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia — meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. The author of “Born on a Blue Day,” Tammet

TransAgriculture is a one-day manifestation featuring penetrating introductions to the field, lectures on guerrilla and avant-gardening, and bioart forms. Bruce Sterling was speaking at this event. One of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction, and known for

Frank Barat asks Prof Noam Chomsky 6 questions that were sent by Alice Walker, John Berger, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Amira Hass and Chris Hedges. Interview starts with question from John Berger: Political practice often surprises political vocabulary. For example,

What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly will be speaking about his latest book, “What Technology Wants.” This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not just a jumble of wires and metal

Edward Said interviewed back in 2001 by Brian Lamb for C-Span.

BBC Horizon 1964 [[ even the future is the same it used to be ]] “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to

Mathematical Theology “To see a world grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand an eternity in an hour…”

April 22, 2008 at the Google Cambridge office, as a part of the Authors@Google series.

with Alex Callinicos at Marxism 2009