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<I><B>         for the ethical use of technology to extend human capacities</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 106 WIDTH="555"><div> <B><IMG SRC="3eb6b500.jpg" border=0 width="107" height="80" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="3ed6a500.jpg" border=0 width="106" height="80" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="3ef6b500.jpg" border=0 width="107" height="80" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B>Photos by Ian Ruotsala, Seattle WTA</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>2007 Events</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.transvision2007.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.transvision2007.com/"><U><B>Transvision 2007</B></U></A><B> Transforming Humanity: Innerspace to Outerspace</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2006 Events</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>May 13, 2006</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://sss.stanford.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://sss.stanford.edu"><U><B>Singularity Summit</B></U></A><B> at Stanford</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>May 26-28, 2006</B></div> <div> <B>Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/HETHR" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/HETHR"><U><B>Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>See </B><A HREF="http://rationallongevity.blogspot.com/2006/05/ieet-conference-preliminary-report.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://rationallongevity.blogspot.com/20"><U><B>this site</B></U></A><B> for a thorough report on the HETHR Conference.</B></div> <div> <B>Nydra's transhumanist take on the conference is well worth reading, and I've found her personal blog entries just as thought provoking and well written.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="inside_links"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#003366" FACE="Arial" ><B>Inside Links</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="transhumanist_faq_the_transhumanist_declaration.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Frequently Asked Questions"><U><B>Declaration</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="transhumanist_faq_the_transhumanist_faq_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Frequently Asked Questions"><U><B>Transhumanist FAQ</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="values.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Human Values in a Posthuman World?"><U><B>Human Values in a Posthuman World?</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="chapter_news_seattle_chapter_news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SWTA Forum"><U><B>Seattle Chapter News</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="chapter_news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SWTA Forum"><U><B>S-WTA Forum</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="chapter_news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SWTA Forum"><U><B>Chapter Chat </B></U></A><B> </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="outside_links"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#003366" FACE="Arial" ><B>Outside Links</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.</B></I> </div> <div> <B>-Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957) </B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Philosophy/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Philo"><U><B>Transhumanist Philosophy</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>KurzweilAI.net</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html?flash=2" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html?fla"><U><U>http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html?flash=2</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>MIT CSAIL</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ai.mit.edu/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ai.mit.edu/"><U><U>http://www.ai.mit.edu/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Journal of Evolution and Technology </B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.jetpress.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jetpress.org/"><U><U>http://www.jetpress.org/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The New Atlantis</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>A Journal of Technology and Society</B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.thenewatlantis.com/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.thenewatlantis.com/index.html"><U><U>http://www.thenewatlantis.com/index.html</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>LEONARDO: </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology</B></I> </div> <div> <A HREF="http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leon"><U><U>http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/index.html</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>FORESIGHT Institute</B></div> <div> <B>Preparing for Nanotechnology</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.foresight.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.foresight.org/"><U><U>http://www.foresight.org/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Nanomedicine Gallery</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Gallery/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Ga"><U><U>http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Gallery/index.html</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Crucial Physical and Informational Technologies</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://e-drexler.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://e-drexler.com/"><U><U>http://e-drexler.com/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Arising from the New Genetics</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Hu"><U><U>http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.shtml</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Promise and Peril of the 21st Century</B></div> <div> <B>by Ray Kurzweil</B></div> <div> <B>American Inventor, Author, Musician, Entrepreneur</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cio.com/archive/092203/kurzweil.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cio.com/archive/092203/kurzwe"><U><U>http://www.cio.com/archive/092203/kurzweil.html</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Nick Bostrom</B><B>, PhD</B></div> <div> <B>British Academy Research Fellow, Oxford University</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nickbostrom.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nickbostrom.com/"><U><U>http://www.nickbostrom.com/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>CHANGESURFER</B></div> <div> <B>James Hughes, PhD</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.changesurfer.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.changesurfer.com/"><U><U>http://www.changesurfer.com/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Asociación Tranhumanista</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.transhumanismo.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.transhumanismo.org/"><U><U>http://www.transhumanismo.org/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Be Very Afraid:</B></div> <div> <B>Cyborg Athletes, Transhuman Ideals & Posthumanity </B></div> <div> <B>By Andy Miah </B></div> <div> <B>Lecturer in Media, Bioethics, and Cyberculture </B></div> <div> <B>University of Paisley at Ayr, Scotland, UK. </B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/miah.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/miah.ht"><U><U>http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/miah.html</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Exponential" Thinking for the Future</B></div> <div> <B>By Jack Uldrich</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.techcentralstation.com/012104D.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.techcentralstation.com/012104"><U><U>http://www.techcentralstation.com/012104D.html</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Cyborg Liberation Front</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>Inside the Movement for Posthuman Rights</B></I><B> </B></div> <div> <B>by Erik Baard</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0611.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.htm"><U><U>http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0611.html </U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Extropy Institute</B></div> <div> <B> "Extropy Institute is a non-profit, multidisciplinary research and educational organization." </B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.extropy.org/ " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.extropy.org/ "><U><U>http://www.extropy.org/ </U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Betterhumans.com</B></div> <div> <B>"Connecting people to the future so that they can create it, we explore and advocate the use of science and technology for furthering human progress." </B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.betterhumans.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.betterhumans.com/"><U><U>http://www.betterhumans.com/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Singularity Watch</B></div> <div> <B>Interpreting a world of accelerating change</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.singularitywatch.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.singularitywatch.com/"><U><U>http://www.singularitywatch.com/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.singinst.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.singinst.org/"><U><U>http://www.singinst.org/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Android World</B></div> <div> <B>"This site is devoted to androids. An android is an anthropomorphic robot - i.e. a robot that looks like a human. Many android developers call their creations 'humanoids' rather than androids. We also have robotics links, robot links, animatronics links, and research links."</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.androidworld.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.androidworld.com/"><U><U>http://www.androidworld.com/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sentient Developments</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com"><U><U>http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>POSTHUMAN.com</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://jbatkins.home.mindspring.com/www.posthuman.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://jbatkins.home.mindspring.com/www."><U><U>http://jbatkins.home.mindspring.com/www.posthuman.com/</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>The NanoAging Institute</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nanoaging.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nanoaging.com"><U><U>http://www.nanoaging.com</U></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="transhumanist_bibliography"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#003366" FACE="Arial" ><B>Transhumanist Bibliography</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>This is a comprehensive collection of non-technical texts and online resources.</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.transhumanism.org/resources/reading.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.transhumanism.org/resources/r"><U><U>http://www.transhumanism.org/resources/reading.htm</U></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width=145 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.singinst.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.singinst.org/"><U><IMG SRC="3a26c1b0.jpg" border=0 width="108" height="539" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>