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Nanofactory or AGI — Which technology could cure humanity’s many problems?
Friday, January 25, 2008

by Natasha Vita-More

There are a number of supposed shifts on the horizon. The most publicly talked about shift is the impending Singularity when greater-than-human-intelligence will come to pass. However, in the nanotechnology communities are other ramblings singularities, such as when the personal, desktop nanofactory are will come about. In fact, some transhumanists are arguing not just about which will come first—molecular manufacturing or artificial general intelligence—but about which technology will ultimately prove to be the cure for human suffering worldwide.

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Bostrom and Pearce interviewed by Cronopis
Thursday, December 27, 2007

Andres Lomena recently conducted an interview for the Spanish magazine Cronopis with Nick Bostrom and David Pearce about their co-founding of the World Transhumanist Association and related topics. They have kindly allowed us to reprint the interview here. (Spanish version here)

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Natasha Vita-More interviewed by the New York Times
Sunday, November 11, 2007

Natasha Vita-More was interviewed by Cintra Wilson of the New York Times about the future,

“Natasha Vita-More, the first female Transhumanist philosopher, has been pondering such questions for some time.”



Ray Kurzweil wins 2007 H.G. Wells Award for Outstanding Contributions to Transhumanism
Friday, August 03, 2007

Inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil has been awarded the 2007 H.G. Wells Award for Outstanding Contributions to Transhumanism, in recognition of his numerous achievements furthering and popularizing transhumanist thought. A best-selling author, his books, from The Age of Intelligent Machines to The Singularity Is Near have been for countless people thorough the world their first, compelling point of contact with transhumanist ideas.

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FTA opens a Transhumanist Library
Monday, June 04, 2007

The Finnish Transhumanist Association, having realized that transhumanist-themed books are somewhat poorly available in Finland, has opened up a library focusing specifically on transhumanist non-fiction and
fiction. The library works as a network, in that there is no centralized location for it (other than the home of the librarian, Ville Salmensuu) but rather the books are delivered from one borrower to the next directly. Ville merely keeps track of where each book is currently located.

The library currently holds 17 books (2 copies of Citizen Cyborg) but the FTA hopes to keep expanding it gradually, both through purchases and donations, until it is clearly the authoritative source of transhumanist literature in Finland. The library is available to all supporting members of FTA, making it the first membership benefit that FTA offers to its paying members that is not available to basic members. We hope that interest in the library will also increase the number of supporting members of FTA and thus the WTA (as FTA supporting members automatically become also WTA supporting members). The library can be found on FTA’s website (sorry, only in Finnish). If you are interested in knowing more about the library (to perhaps start your own in your local chapter), you can
contact Ville Salmensuu (kirjasto@transhumanismi.org).



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