Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:58 — 30.6MB)   Zoltan joins us on the Techno-Optimist podcast with his newly realised novel The Transhumanist Wager. Make sure to check it out, it is by far one of the most compelling cases of the near future probabilities. Direct link to Itunes podcast episode Itunes Link(subscribe) Philosopher, entrepreneur, and former National Geographic and New York Times correspondent Zoltan Istvan presents his visionary novel, The Transhumanist Wager, as a seminal statement of our times. Scorned by over 500 publishers and literary agents around the world, his philosophical thriller has...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:03 — 23.3MB) Itunes Link ‘Ciles’ is a young adult science fiction novel written by Nicole L. Cannavaro. It is the first book of the Original Earth trilogy.   We got the pleasure to sit down with Nicole and hear about her creative process and how she is able to compress these elaborate metaphors into a novel. Click the link below for a free copy of her book! Ciles the book PDF Free copy with code name: Simulet Ciles: The Journey BeginsOriginal Earth TrilogyExcerpt from BookExcerpt from Book  ...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:07:38 — 58.8MB) Itunes Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/simulet.com-hub/id618504119 Saturday April 13th 2013 Episode 7 of the Techno Optimist Interview with Gray Scott Bio: Gray Scott is a Futurist  and Neuro-Technology-Philosopher, speaker, and writer. Gray is a contributing blogger for “The Futurist” magazine, a professional member of The World Future Society and founder and editorial director of SeriousWonder.com the online futurist philosophy, technology and consciousness magazine produced by his media company Serious Wonder Media based in New York City. Gray is quickly...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11:43 — 33.2MB) Kevin and Mat dive into the world of virtual reality’s.  (Show notes coming soon) The distinction between virtuality reality and reality is a resolution problem and its rapidly finding higher definition. – Kevin Human attention is a commodity more valuable than oil in this consumer capitalist society.-Kevin A human can see himself in a mirror doing something never experienced before.  As humans we are only afforded so much attention allocation throughout the day. Much of that is the fuel for the berneysian parasite that is leaching from us. -Kevin Veja du...

Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally — or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better. Neo-evolution is within our grasp. What will we do with it? View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/are-we-read…    ...

One of my hypothesis is that species of technology, unlike species in biology, do not go extinct. When I really look at supposed extinct species of technology, I find they still survive in some fashion. A close examination of by-gone technologies shows that somewhere on the planet someone is still producing it. A technique or artifact may be rare in the developed world but quite common in the developing world. For instance, Burma is full of ox-cart technology; basketry is ubiquitous in most of Africa; hand spinning still thriving in Bolivia. A technology may be enthusiastically embraced by a heritage-based minority in modern society, if...

The Ethics of a Simulated Universe Rick Searle Rick Searle Posted: Mar 17, 2013 This year one of the more thought provoking thought experiments to appear in recent memory has its tenth anniversary.  Nick Bostrom’s paper in thePhilosophical Quarterly “Are You Living in a Simulation?”” might have sounded like the types of conversations we all had after leaving the theater having seen The Matrix, but Bostrom’s attempt was serious. (There is a great recent video of Bostrom discussing his argument at the IEET). What he did in his paper was create a formal argument around the seemingly fanciful question of whether or not we were living in a...

 Max Read You are looking at, more or less, a portrait of the internet over an average 24 hours in 2012—higher usage in yellows and reds; lower in greens and blues—created by an anonymous researcher for the “Internet Census 2012″ project. How, exactly, do you gather this much data? Well: not legally, that’s for sure.   In order to track the geographical location and usage patterns of the internet, our researcher created a “botnet”—a network of nearly half a million hacked computers, chosen from a selection of Linux machines with no or default passwords, pinging everything they could and reporting back. The...

Ciles: The Journey BeginsOriginal Earth TrilogyExcerpt from BookExcerpt from Book Ciles the book PDF Free copy with code name: Simulet   Once diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager, Roxanne Gibson has lost her mind again. It has barely been a year since she stopped her medication, but now she’s begun to see unsettling things: people with horns on their heads. At first she is sure they are hallucinations, until one night, they try to attack her and her best friend, ex-junkie Paul Taylor. Then someone rescues them: a man with purple eyes, just like those of the boy that Roxanne met with in her childhood dreams. Suddenly, the...