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Aubrey De Grey Charlie Stross Building Better Brains Science Fiction Gets Funding Halle’s accessories: Data display contact lens Configurable permanent makeup Personal cell, PDA facial stud Solar, climate controlled hoodie Probing de Grey Matters AUBREY DE GREY The Reluctant Transhumanist CHARLIE STROSS Don’t Leave Your Memory at Home BUILDING BETTER BRAINS Billionaires Funding the Future Editon #1 SCIENCE FICTION GETS FUNDING Fall 2008 H+ Magazine Advertising Specifications General LIVEHealthier Longer & H+ Magazine is published digitally online Full Spread Full Page after layout is finalized. Since H+ is an online format, print resolution images are not required at this time. However to provide maximum flexibility we suggest advertisers send ad mechanicals in bitmap form at 72 dpi at exactly TWICE the physical size of the final ad plus 1/4” inch margin on all sides. For example, an H+ Magazine full page is 9” x 11”. 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The glory of transhumanism is that Copy Editors 23 The Distribution of Post-Humanity After enjoying a few moments of puz- it’s not just a movement of immortalists, zlement in my conversational partner, I am or singularitarians, or advocates of digital Michael Jin and Kristi Scott 24 Don’t Leave Your Memory At Home likely to mention the idea that we might be democratization, or experimenters in self- Special Thanks 28 The Artificial Hippocampus able to stop aging -- or I might mention enhancing technologies. Transhumanism “The Singularity.” Aha! On a rare occasion, reminds us that all -- or at least many -- of Ms. Suzuki The Reluctant Transhumanist there may be a glimmer of recognition. these developments are coming online at Jim Mielke 31 The Sheep Shit Grass (or The End of Scarcity) Someplace, sometime, my conversational about the same time, that they impact each other, and that they will be remaking our Botox Parties, Michael Jackson, partner had read or heard something: a University of Washington vague memory, something noted while societies and our personal experiences of and the Disillusioned Transhumanist sucking at the firehose of endless infotain- the world in tandem. It represents nothing Natasha Vita-More 32 Science Fiction Gets Funding ment. less than an attempt to have a realistic dis- James Clement Clearly transhumanists have some work course about the human future while most 34 Overclocking the Human CPU to do, if the idea that humans may be on the of our leading intellectuals and politicians PJ Manney 36 H+ Lab verge of self-directed evolution is to become are still looking at that future through the Tyler Emerson common currency. But why does this mat- rear-view mirror. 38 TheProgressive Ingression of Intelligence into Matter ter? 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Whether a digital magazine organized within the All materials © Humanity+ 2008, unless previously published or otherwise indicated. All copyrights return to writers and artists 90 days after publication. www.transhumanism.org Date of publication: October 2008 — Contact: [email protected] it’s germ-line engineering or molecular traditional magazine format. computing; advanced AI or cyborg bodies So welcome to the first edition of H+. (replaceable parts); engineered hyper- We hope you find value in this publication. #1 #1 4 FALL 2008 FALL 2008 5 Fast Blasts Fast Blasts PETA Wants Meat! I Am Ironman! RU Sirius HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) The notion that tissue cultures could be Cybernetic Suit developed into veritable animal flesh without the necessity of raising and Tristan Guillford slaughtering living creatures has been in circulation among tech enthusiasts for Cyberdyne Corporation of Japan, in several years.
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