Jin's EDC blog » space colonisation https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling Just another Education and digital culture 2015 site Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:39:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/top-ten-transhumanist-technologies/ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/top-ten-transhumanist-technologies/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:41:43 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=103 Overview

Transhumanists advocate the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology. Not just technology as in gadgets you get from Best Buy, but technology in the grander sense of strategies for eliminating disease, providing cheap but high-quality products to the world’s poorest, improving quality of life and social interconnectedness, and so on. Technology we don’t notice because it’s blended in with the fabric of the world, but would immediately take note of its absence if it became unavailable. (Ever tried to travel to another country on foot?) Technology needn’t be expensive — indeed, if a technology is truly effective it will pay for itself many times over.

Source: Lifeboat Foundation
via Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies.

 

]]> https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/top-ten-transhumanist-technologies/feed/ 0 Transhumanism and space colonisation https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/transhumanism-and-space-colonisation/ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/transhumanism-and-space-colonisation/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:37:48 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=100 Space colonisation is seen as a viable option by transhumanists to solve the problem of overpopulation on Earth.  It would require technological innovation to achieve and to live in an atmosphere for which humans are unsuited to.

Author: jindarling

]]> https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/transhumanism-and-space-colonisation/feed/ 0 Think you’ve got the right stuff to make it to Mars? https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/jindarling-3/ https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/14/jindarling-3/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:07:11 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=74 RT @MarsOneProject: Think you’ve got the right stuff to make it to Mars? http://t.co/cRl98Q6PrT @BBC_Future http://t.co/mlkRN4Ree5 #mscedc http://ift.tt/1CloCEQ

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