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Stephen Hawking on transhumanism
Futurismic —
Physicist Stephen Hawking has commented on transhumanism and the future direction of humanity:
Hawking says that we have entered a new phase of evolution. “At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information.”
But what distinguishes us from our cave man ancestors is the knowledge that we have accumulated over the last ten ...
Self-Directed Evolution
The Speculist —
... Stephen Hawking says that our species has transcended genetics alone as our means of eolving, and that information external to us -- the sum of human knowledge in books, computer networks, etc. -- is taking us in an entirely new direction: ...
Link dump: 2009.07.04
Sentient Developments —
... Daily Galaxy: Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution" But we are now entering a new phase, of what Hawking calls "self designed evolution," in which we will be able to change and improve our DNA. ...
Link-dump #4
Posthuman Blues —
Ant mega-colony takes over world Neuromancer at 25: What It Got Right, What It Got Wrong Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution" LRO's First Moon Images 20 Scary Old School Surgical Tools Autonomobile by Mike + Maaike Aurora Borealis From Outta Space RoboGeisha trailer is awesome, includes weaponized tempura shrimp Astronaut Fashion: The Modern Spacesuit [Follow me on Twitter.] ...
Mike Treder Self-Designed Evolution
Ethical Technology —
A lecture given by Stephen Hawking and reprinted in Scientific American has been gathering a lot of attention recently in cyberspace.
Here are some excerpts from the full transcript:
Life in the Universe
I would like to speculate a little on the development of life in the universe and, in particular, the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of its behaviour throughout history, has been pretty stupid and not calculated ...
News Briefs 09-07-2009
TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History —
... the OTHER kind!— at the edge of the universe and further away than any detected to date have been discovered using a new imaging technique.
Abort! Abandon ship! Words that no one wants to hear, least of all NASA; but because you never know... you need to test, test, test.
Video: Jaime Maussan shows UFO releasing intelligent moving spheres. Well, I dunno about "intelligent", but IMO —and I hate to say this!—it's an interesting clip.
Stephen Hawking: "Humans have entered a new stage of Evolution". Hmm... I'd swear that bright spot in the sky is ...
Stephen Hawking: “Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution”
Blogging Life Extension —
Stephen Hawking points this out in his Life in the Universe lecture.
Click here for the entire article found on The Daily Galaxy website.
