transhumanism
Biology is Technology — DARPA is Back in the Game With A Big Vision and It Is H+
Welcome To The Matrix: Enslaved By Technology And The Internet Of Things
“Indeed, while most of us are consumed with our selfies and trying to keep up with what our so-called friends are posting on Facebook, the megacorporation Google has been busily partnering with the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentag…on, and other governmental agencies to develop a new “human” species, so to speak.
In other words, Google—a neural network that approximates a global brain—is fusing with the human mind in a phenomenon that is called “singularity”; and they’ve hired transhumanist scientist Ray Kurzweil to do just that. Google will know the answer to your question before you have asked it, Kurzweil said. “It will have read every email you will ever have written, every document, every idle thought you’ve ever tapped into a search-engine box. It will know you better than your intimate partner does. Better, perhaps, than even yourself.”
But here’s the catch: the NSA and all other government agencies will also know you better than yourself. As William Binney, one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA said, “The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”
Science fiction, thus, has become fact.” Read more in the article:
Could humans live to 500 years old? Scientists believe genetic tweaks could significantly extend our lifespan
Genetically Modified Babies
Species Alteration: Is GMO rewiring our DNA?
Body-Double: Lifelike Android Demo’d at Futuristic Conference
“Collectively, Ishiguro’s work pushes the boundaries of what he called “trans humanity,” where the line between humans and technology disappears. After all, he asked, what is a human?”
http://news.yahoo.com/body-double-lifelike-android-demoed-futuristic-conference-040139620.html
Scientists Revolutionize Creation of Genetically Altered Mice to Model Human Disease
Full article is linked below the two quoted paragraphs.)
“This breaks down the definition of model organism,” says Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in Jaenisch’s lab. “So now, even with limited resources, any animal with established embryo manipulation procedures could be the subject of genome engineering. With many of the animals’ genomes that have been sequenced, we could use this technology to establish efficient genetic manipulations in more species, to study the unique biology of each, and to learn more about evolution.”
Thus, Wang, Yang, and Shivalila have used CRISPR/Cas to create mouse models only, but the team is excited broaden its application to other animals.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130502131716.htm
Printable Functional ‘Bionic’ Ear Melds Electronics and Biology
“The design and implementation of bionic organs and devices that enhance human capabilities, known as cybernetics, has been an area of increasing scientific interest,” the researchers wrote in the article which appears in the scholarly journal Nano Letters. “This field has the potential to generate customized replacement parts for the human body, or even create organs containing capabilities beyond what human biology ordinarily provides.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130501193208.htm
In vitro eugenics
CONVERGENCE Website Note: The linked article is from the “Journal of Medical Ethics” – the following paragraph is the Abstract from the article. Note that “human enhancement” is mentioned, along with the term “in vitro eugenics.” This article… is written by Dr. Robert Sparrow, of Australia. He says much more in the article; check it out.
“A series of recent scientific results suggest that, in the not-too-distant future, it will be possible to create viable human gametes from human stem cells. This paper discusses the potential of this technology to make possible what I call ‘in vitro eugenics’: the deliberate breeding of human beings in vitro by fusing sperm and egg derived from different stem-cell lines to create an embryo and then deriving new gametes from stem cells derived from that embryo. Repeated iterations of this process would allow scientists to proceed through multiple human generations in the laboratory. In vitro eugenics might be used to study the heredity of genetic disorders and to produce cell lines of a desired character for medical applications. More controversially, it might also function as a powerful technology of ‘human enhancement’ by allowing researchers to use all the techniques of selective breeding to produce individuals with a desired genotype.”
World’s First Genetically-Modified Babies Born in the United States
Has anyone else seen other articles about this, or anything on TV news?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-43767/Worlds-GM-babies-born.html
What in the world is going on? 