The Tomorrow People
Article published in New Zealand Tone Magazine invu with me, Colin Gavaghan and a few other folk. link HERE to buy the edition, or HERE to access the article.
At Die Untoten, my second intervention was with Aubrey de Grey. We’ve not done an event together since a Nature debate in 2008 and it was fun to work through some ideas that I’ve not had a chance to talk about for a while.
The focus of our conversation was longevity and whether living for longer is a priority in society. While it seems that a lot of energy within politics goes towards helping people have longer, fitter lives, the realization that implies a commitment to living indefinitely is something that people find quite troublesome.
In fact, most of the people in our audience would prefer to not live beyond 100 years, even if we could guarantee good health.
Photographs from the event ‘London 2012: the First Transhuman Games?’
A month or so back, I published a couple of new articles, which each deal with the concept of posthumanism. The main article details a typology of human enhancements that aims to clarify the different levels of discussion and expectation of human enhancement technologis. The second is a ‘Letter to Utopia’, a reply to Nick Bostrom’s Letter from Utopia published alongside my paper in SELT. They’re available through the SELT website:
MIAH, A. (2008) Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement? Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2, http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol2/iss1/art5.
MIAH, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia. Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2, http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol2/iss1/art7