Must-read on moonshot thinking in Medical / Life-Sciences (via The Economist)
“An RNA vaccine against any disease is a message written ...
Announcing The Fork In The Road Project – Please Join Us!
Today, I am delighted to invite all interested readers, friends, ...
06
Mar 2021
Covid-19 Will Accelerate the AI Health Care Revolution (Must-read) by Kai Fu Lee
The potential goes beyond diagnosis and treatment. Getting appointments, paying ...
14
Jun 2020
Here are the videos, audio, images and polls from our live debate: Humanist vs Transhumanist
Read more about this event here. My Futures Agency colleague ...
24
Apr 2020
Join us for the Transhumanist vs. Humanist Online Debate with Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard April 23rd 2020
Calum Chace (the transhumanist) is a global keynote speaker and best-selling writer about the future impact of AI. His best-known books on AI are Surviving AI and The Economic Singularity. More at http://www.pandoras-brain.com/ Gerd Leonhard (the humanist) is a top-rated Futurist, the Author of Technology vs Humanity, the CEO of The Futures Agency and a Global Keynote Speaker see http://gerdtube.com
13
Apr 2020
Read my new Forbes.com contribution: 2020 Will Bring A New Renaissance – Humanity Over Technology
Perhaps in the industrial age and even in the so-called information society we’ve been pretending to be inhuman all along, to be ‘better machines’ - and now it’s time to give up the act: Our ultimate job is to be human. As the third decade of the twenty-first century kicks off, let’s transcend our love-affair with ‘digital transformation’ and ‘exponential technologies’ and rediscover what it means to be human.
07
Jan 2020
Are the brain implants of the future actually “thinking devices”?
“San Francisco of about two dozen tinkerers, Jonathan Toomim argued ...
22
Oct 2019
New video: artificial intelligence and the future of business and humanity. Gerd Leonhard’s Spark 2017 keynote at Capgemini 2017 CXO Forum, Pebble Beach CA
Here is the video of my entire keynote. You can ...
29
Nov 2017
U.S. panel endorses babies gene-edited with CRISPR – this is huge
“On Tuesday, in a striking acknowledgement that humanity is on the cusp of genetically modified children, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s source of blue-ribbon advice on science policy, recommended that germ-line modification of human beings be permitted in the future in certain narrow circumstances to prevent the birth of children with serious diseases.”
U.S. panel endorses babies gene-edited with CRISPR
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603633/us-panel-endorses-designer-babies-to-avoid-serious-disease/
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U.S. panel endorses babies gene-edited with CRISPR
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603633/us-panel-endorses-designer-babies-to-avoid-serious-disease/
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15
Feb 2017
Americans love technology, but are not so sure about enhancing their bodies (Pew Study, WaPo)
“a majority of Americans said they would be “very” or “somewhat” worried about three specific biomedical technologies chosen by Pew: gene editing, brain chips and synthetic blood. In all these cases, worry about the technology outweighs the excitement people feel about it.”
Americans love technology, but we aren’t so sure about using it to enhance our bodies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/07/26/americans-love-technology-but-arent-so-sure-about-using-it-to-enhance-our-bodies/
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Americans love technology, but we aren’t so sure about using it to enhance our bodies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/07/26/americans-love-technology-but-arent-so-sure-about-using-it-to-enhance-our-bodies/
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27
Jul 2016
Will we see Human-Animal Chimeras soon (must read by MIT Technology Review)
“The effort to incubate organs in farm animals is ethically charged because it involves adding human cells to animal embryos in ways that could blur the line between species.
Last September, in a reversal of earlier policy, the National Institutes of Health announced it would not support studies involving such “human-animal chimeras” until it had reviewed the scientific and social implications more closely.”
Human-Animal Chimera | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/news/545106/human-animal-chimeras-are-gestating-on-us-research-farms/
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Last September, in a reversal of earlier policy, the National Institutes of Health announced it would not support studies involving such “human-animal chimeras” until it had reviewed the scientific and social implications more closely.”
Human-Animal Chimera | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/news/545106/human-animal-chimeras-are-gestating-on-us-research-farms/
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08
Jan 2016
You’re Only Human, But Your Kids Could Be So Much More – says Paul Knoepfler (Wired)
“I mean a designer baby. You would be literally designing and producing a new type of baby via the same sort of technology that is used to make a GM tomato, mouse, or monkey. The baby would be a genetically modified human or, to phrase it in an edgier manner, a GM human.”
You’re Only Human, But Your Kids Could Be So Much More
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/youre-only-human-but-your-kids-could-be-so-much-more/
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You’re Only Human, But Your Kids Could Be So Much More
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/youre-only-human-but-your-kids-could-be-so-much-more/
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