R U Sirius

Best of H+ Magazine, Vol.1: 2008-2010 R U Sirius

Publisher Marketing: Best of H+ Magazine, Vol. 1 is edited by counterculture legend R. U. Sirius, and brought to you by futurist organization Humanity+. It is our great privilege to live in an era when H+ - the extension of humanity beyond its traditional biological form - is not merely fantasy but a reasonable description of the practical, everyday unfolding of science and technology. H+ Magazine has provided a venue for edgy, creative thinking about H+ technologies and ideas since it was founded in 2008. This volume collects some of the best H+ Magazine articles from the magazine's first few years, when it was edited by legendary futurist R. U. Sirius. Table of Contents Preface by Ben Goertzel Preface by R. U. Sirius The Rise of the Citizen Scientist Why DIY Bio? Re-Engineering the Human Immune System Self Tracking: The Quantified Life is Worth Living From Hackerspace to Your Garage Scrapheap Transhumanism DIY RFID Radically Enhanced Human Body Our Machines/Ourselves: AI/Bots/The Singularity Ray Kurzweil: The H+ Interview Brain on a Chip: A Roundup of Projects Working on Silicon Intelligence The Chinese Singularity Build an Optimal Scientist, Then Retire Here Come the Neurobots: Brain Bots are Developing Personalities - and a Whole Lot More Can "Terminators" Actually Be Our Salvation Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P. K. Dick Isn't It Time for Cinematic Sci-Fi Television? Let a Hundred Futures Bloom The Reluctant Transhumanist Was Michael Jackson a Transhumanist? Gene Genies: BIO Adventures in Synthetic Biology: Interview with Stanford's Drew Endy Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives One Atom at a Time: Nano How Close Are We to Real Nanotechnology? Targeting Cancer Cells with Nanoparticles Engineering an End to Aging Smart Biology to the Rescue I Am Ironman!: HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) Cybernetic Suit My New Sense Organ Sports Enhancement and Life Enhancement: Different Rules Apply Botox Parties, Michael Jackson, and the Disillusioned Transhumanist This is Your Brain on Neurotechnology Optogenetics: The Edge of Neural Control Cognitive Commodities in the Neuro Marketplace Will We Eventually Upload Our Minds? Transhumanism at Play Gamification: Turning Work Into Play The Perils of FDS Fun Deficiency Syndrome The Pursuit of Crappiness Contributor Bio:  Sirius, R U R. U. Sirius (Ken Goffman) is a writer, editor and well-known digital iconoclast. He was co-publisher of the first popular digital culture magazine, "MONDO 2000", from 1989-1993 and co-editor of the popular book, "MONDO 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge". He has written about technology and culture for "Wired, The Village Voice, www. Salon.com, www. BoingBoing.net, Time Magazine, S. F. Chronicle, Rolling Stone", and "Esquire" among other publications. Sirius/Goffman also lectures widely having appeared as part of the Reality Hacking series at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, at the TedX conference in Brussels, and at San Francisco's popular Dorkbot event. Visit him at: "www. StealThisSingularity.com". Contributor Bio:  Goertzel, Ben Dr. Ben Goertzel is a long-time leading researcher in the field of Artificial General Intelligence, and has also been prominent in the futurist and transhumanist communities, writing and speaking frequently about the long-term implications of AGI technology. He currently resides in Hong Kong with his AI-researcher wife Ruiting Lian, serving as Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings and participating in the OpenCog AGI/robotics project at Hong Kong Poly U. Holding a PhD in mathematics, Dr. Goertzel has published over a dozen books and 100+ research papers on AI, longevity biology and other areas of science, and is the founder of the AGI conference series, and Vice Chairman of Humanity+.