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Brain

Will the New '100 Percent Fatal' Mind-Uploading Service Work?

Do you want to be in control group or the experimental group?

Ronald Bailey | 3.16.2018 11:15 AM

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Human Enhancement

Consumers Are Open to Superhuman Vision and Cognitive Enhancements. Are Regulators?

The first comprehensive survey on attitudes about human enhancement finds Americans are open to some crazy new technologies.

Mike Riggs | 2.8.2018 11:15 AM

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Blood

Draining Millennials of Their Blood to Rejuvenate Boomers

Alkahest's vampire cure for aging experiment yields equivocal results

Ronald Bailey | 11.28.2017 2:01 PM

Reason Podcast

'Becoming Machines Is Part of Our Destiny,' Says Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan [Podcast]

The "California Dream of Transhumanism" on why he's pro-robot, running for governor of California, and still angry about getting busted at 18 for selling pot.

Nick Gillespie and Ian Keyser | 9.7.2017 1:30 PM

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Transhumanism and Libertarianism Are Entirely Compatible

People seeking to flourish should have the freedom to enhance their bodies and minds

Ronald Bailey | 8.31.2017 11:45 AM

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There's No Harm in Fantasizing About a Better Future

In Radicals Chasing Utopia, transhumanist enthusiasm gets a bad rap.

Mike Riggs | 7.12.2017 2:03 PM

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Reasontv

Cory Doctorow on Cyber Warfare, Lawbreaking, and His New Novel 'Walkaway'

The novelist, activist, and BoingBoing founder on cyber warfare, Uber-style reputation economics, and what he's likely to get arrested for someday.

Katherine Mangu-Ward and Todd Krainin | 5.25.2017 9:37 AM

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Transhumanism Is Not an Alt-Right Conspiracy!

Being equally diseased, disabled, and dead is only fair, says New York magazine.

Ronald Bailey | 5.2.2017 5:15 PM

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Transhumanism Is Inevitable

And that's a good thing.

Ronald Bailey | 11.25.2016 12:00 PM

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Transhumanism Is Inevitable

And that's a very good thing.

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2016 1:30 PM

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Hooray! Transhumanism Is Inevitable: New at Reason

A review of Beyond Human: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Extending Our Lives

Reason Staff | 9.9.2016 1:30 PM

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Designer Babies

Designer Babies and Human Enhancement: Ronald Bailey Lectures in Moscow

Also most babies will be created using skin cells and the bioethics of radical life extension

Ronald Bailey | 8.30.2016 1:25 PM

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Election 2016

Which Presidential Candidate Is Pumped about Driverless Cars, 3D Printing, and Gene Editing?

"I think it is important to not regulate the AI industry," says Gary Johnson.

Nick Gillespie | 8.17.2016 11:40 AM

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Robots

Ronald Bailey and Robin Hanson Talk Robot Overlords at Cato: Video

Hanson presents his new book, The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth. I discuss.

Ronald Bailey | 6.15.2016 10:03 AM

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Singularity

Ronald Bailey Comments on The Age of Em at Cato Tomorrow

Come by at 11 am Tuesday, June 7 to hear author Robin Hanson and me.

Ronald Bailey | 6.6.2016 9:45 AM

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Ronald Bailey Argues for Transhumanism at the Washington Post

My fellow Americans should not get to vote on what enhancements I might want

Ronald Bailey | 5.20.2016 12:50 PM

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Artificial Intelligence

Computers as Oracles: True Answers We Won't Understand

DeepMind's AlphaGo may signal the advent of the age of computational thaumaturgy

Ronald Bailey | 1.27.2016 4:33 PM

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Obituaries

Artificial Intelligence Pioneer and Transhumanist Marvin Minsky Dies at Age 88

Until the time that Minsky is either revived or uploaded, may he rest in peace

Ronald Bailey | 1.26.2016 11:01 AM

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CRISPR

CRISPR Gene-Editing Is Scientific "Breakthrough of the Year"

"If scientists can dream of a genetic manipulation, CRISPR can now make it happen"

Ronald Bailey | 12.21.2015 12:17 PM

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Big Fun at Transhumanist Summer Camp

Neurotracking, video games, laughing rats, brainwave sniper training, robot love, and a "pernicious libertarian"

Ronald Bailey | 7.31.2015 1:30 PM

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Politics

Declare Your Independence…from Evolution! Here Comes The Singularity and Transhumanism

RU Sirius and Jay Cornell have literally written the book on what's coming next in self-directed evolution.

Nick Gillespie | 7.5.2015 12:14 PM

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Genetic Engineering

Ronald Bailey Says Let the Techstorm Rip

A review of A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control

Reason Staff | 6.5.2015 1:30 PM

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Policy

Riding the Techstorm

An ethicist's failed case against permissionless innovation.

Ronald Bailey | 6.5.2015 12:01 AM

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Culture

Bruce Jenner: From Wheaties Box to Woman

Nick Gillespie | 4.25.2015 11:39 AM

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Politics

What "Out of Control" Biohacking Means for the Future

Q&A With Disinformation Encyclopedia Authors R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell

Zach Weissmueller | 3.11.2015 9:43 AM

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Organ transplants

Head Transplant in 2 Years, Proposes Surgeon

Better to be the donor than the recipient in this case

Ronald Bailey | 2.26.2015 5:32 PM

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Policy

Is It Immoral for Men to Gestate? Transgender* Women?

Recent advances in uterus transplantation will soon make this possible

Ronald Bailey | 1.30.2015 1:30 PM

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Bioethics

Ronald Bailey Asks If It Is Immoral to Enable Men and Transgender Women to Gestate

Just because it's new doesn't mean that it's wrong.

Reason Staff | 1.30.2015 1:30 PM

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Life expectancy

Next Generation Will Live to Be 100

"The first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already," asserts anti-aging researcher Aubrey de Grey

Ronald Bailey | 1.16.2015 12:03 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Ronald Bailey Wonders If Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy Humanity

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 1:30 PM

Science & Technology

Is Skynet Inevitable?

Artificial intelligence and the possibility of human extinction

Ronald Bailey | 1.3.2014 1:30 PM

Genetic Engineering

The Next Gene Engineering Revolution: Curing Genetic Disease and "Designer Babies" Using Crispr

Ronald Bailey | 11.7.2013 9:41 AM

Bioethics

Would Transplanting a Human Head Be Unethical?

Ronald Bailey | 7.5.2013 3:50 PM

Science & Technology

Cyborgian Immortality by 2045

Ronald Bailey | 6.3.2013 12:03 PM

Policy

The Next Big Thing: Hacking Human Bodies

Augmenting your weak flesh is the biotech frontier

Reason Staff | 8.21.2012 3:40 PM

Politics

Do You Really Want to Live Forever?

The new book Immortality warns against the quest for eternal life

Ronald Bailey | 5.29.2012 5:30 PM

Politics

Prison Guard Instructs Immigrant Detainee to Drink His Semen, Gets Slap on the Wrist

Mike Riggs | 12.19.2011 2:00 PM

Politics

Is Transhumanism Coercive?

Forcing humanity to remain relatively stupid and sick doesn't make us freer

Ronald Bailey | 10.18.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

Too Smart for Our Own Good

Will cognitive enhancement destroy the human race?

Ronald Bailey | 9.20.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Plastic Brains, Femmebots, and Aliens Watching TV

Dispatches from the Humanity+ Summit

Ronald Bailey | 6.22.2010 4:30 PM

Culture

Transhumanism on the Cheap, and For the People

Brian Doherty | 2.18.2010 9:29 AM

Science & Technology

Nothing Personal, But You Look Stupid When You Text

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.15.2009 9:49 PM

Science & Technology

I Spy Augmented Reality With My Little Eye

Peter Suderman | 9.11.2009 10:33 AM

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