An excerpt from the book, in which we try to summarize the various types of criticisms of transhumanism.
Another interview, this one with the folks at disinfo.com. We talk about nightmare scenarios, the recent surge of interest in the dangers of artificial intelligence, and more.
This is a very fun interview by George Dvorsky about the book on io9. Sorry, self-serious Singularitarians. Jay and I both find “the rapture of the nerds” amusing. io9: How do you respond to people who describe the Singularity as the “Rapture of the Nerds?” R.U.: I...
This was supposed to be included in the Addendum section of the book but got left out, apparently due to a typesetter error: Rachel Haywire, a young firebrand performer/provocateur who brought the cyberpunk back to transhumanism with her very successful Extreme...
I was a wee bit stingy with my acknowledgments in the book, mainly because I wanted my dedication to my darling Eve Berni to stand out. So I’d now like to thank, first and foremost, James Clement for starting H+ magazine and thinking of me as a possible...
We’ll be talking about the book at Green Apple Books (506 Clement St., San Francisco) at 7:00 p.m. Friday, January 30th. They’d like attendees to R.S.V.P. on their Facebook events page, but it’s not required.
On January 2nd, R.U. and I were interviewed live for two hours on the Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis radio show. Approximately one million listeners heard us answer questions and talk about the book. You can listen to or download the show on SoundCloud, and so far over...
In the Martine Rothblatt section, pg. 116, her foundation is called Terasem, not Tesseract.
In our Cryonics section, pg. 59, Dora Kent went into cryonic preservation in 1987, not 1994.
