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[jroseland]

Next Tuesday on the Longecity Now Podcast we will be interviewing Andy Walker who is the author of the upcoming Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What It Means to Be Human.

 

The book surmises that you'll soon be able to:

• Upgrade your looks by growing new and improved body parts in the lab
• Grow new organs when your old ones wear out -- and replace limbs lost in accidents or warfare
• Increase your lifespan: live long and prosper
• Grow taller, even if you're already an adult
• Get smarter, with new brain implants
• Use nanobots to clean out your arteries and enhance your brain
• Sense magnetic fields and distant storms
• Jack your brain directly into the network for instant knowledge
• Curate your baby's DNA to eliminate disease before it strikes (and choose her eye color while you're at it)

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Below leave an questions you would like to see posed to Andy...

Edited by caliban, 07 October 2015 - 09:17 PM.
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[jroseland]

I've got a few questions...

1. What do you say to people who say that the singularity and transhumanism is just good news for rich people? And potentially very bad for the less fortunate?
2. Is transhumanism totally irreconcilable with religion?
3. Does instant information mean the end of novelty?

[Danail Bulgaria]

Curate your baby's DNA? How? How he will know which DNA parts has been changed? 

[Mind]

File Name: LongeCityNow_Andy_Walker2015.mp3

File Submitter: Mind

File Submitted: 26 Oct 2015

File Category: Podcasts

Guest: Andy and Kay Walker

An interview with transhumanist thinkers and authors Andy and Kay Walker. A positive view of technological progress.

Click here to download this file

[Mind]

I got all of the questions asked. They are definitely techno-optimists, like Kurzweil. I tried my best to get their thoughts about the "Transhumanist Condition" but I am not sure I was able frame the question properly.