Is monetizing federal land the way to pay for basic income?
5:15 pm PDT • April 10, 2017
Like the Titanic, capitalism is sinking, but few passengers are wondering yet if there are enough lifeboats.
In as little time as a decade, affordable robots that can bottle-feed babies, change diapers and put a child to sleep might be here. The human-machine bond that a new…
Space
Space exploration will spur transhumanism and mitigate existential risk
8:00 am PDT • May 18, 2016
When people think about rocket ships and space exploration, they often imagine traveling across the Milky Way, landing on mysterious planets and even meeting alien life forms. In reality, humans’…
Economic experts are trying to figure out a question that just two decades ago seemed ridiculous: If 90 percent of human jobs are replaced by robots in the next 50…
Robots are starting to appear everywhere: driving cars, cooking dinners and even as robotic pets. But people don’t usually give machine intelligence much credence when it comes to judging beauty.…
Startups
Programming Hate Into AI Will Be Controversial, But Possibly Necessary
3:00 pm PDT • October 17, 2015
In the last few years, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has been thrust into the mainstream. No longer just the domain of sci-fi fans, nerds or Google engineers, I…
Startups
Future Transhumanist Tech May Soon Change The Definition Of Disability
8:00 am PDT • September 14, 2015
Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer…
