da TRANSVISION 2010
a cura dell'AIT (Associazione Italiana Transumanisti) - Ottobre 2010
Museo della Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo Da Vinci Milano
SPEAKERS (RELATORI)
Riccardo Campa is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cracow. He possesses two Master of Arts degrees, in Political Science and Philosophy, from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. He founded and is currently president of the Italian Transhumanist Association, and is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist, and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation. The central goal of Aubrey de Grey's work is the expedition of developing a true cure for human aging.
Ben Goertzel is founder and CEO of two computer science firms Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC, and of the non-profit Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute. He serves as Director of Research for the Singularity Institute for AI.
David Orban is an entrepreneur and visionary. He is Chairman of Humanity+, Advisor of the Singularity University, a Founder of WideTag, Inc., a high technology start-up company providing the infrastructure for an open Internet of Things.
Max More, the founder of Extropy Institute, has written many articles espousing the philosophy of transhumanism and the transhumanist philosophy of extropy, most importantly his Principles of Extropy (currently version 3.11). In a 1990 essay "Transhumanism: Toward a Futurist Philosophy", he introduced the term "transhumanism" in its modern sense. More is also noted for his writings about the impact of new and emerging technologies on businesses and other organizations. His "Proactionary Principle" is intended as a balanced guide to the risks and benefits of technological innovation.
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Natasha Vita-More-Lincoln Cannon-José Luis Cordeiro-Robert Geraci-Miriam Ji Sun-Randal A. Koene-Eugen Leitl-David Pearce-Giulio Prisco-Martine Rothblatt-Anders Sandberg-Rémi Sussan-Stefano Vaj-Giuseppe Vatinno-
***and many others....
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***Riccardo Campa, Mutare o Perire. La sfida del transumanesimo, Bergamo, Sestante, 2010, pp. 310, € 25,00
Tra breve scocca Transvision 2010, l'evento periodico del Movimento Transumanista, ovvero la futurologia dell'era di Internet, disseminato a livello internazionale, promossa dall'astronave madre anglosassone di Humanity + (direttori Nick Bostrom, tra i ricercatori gli stessi David Orban, Max e Natasha Vita More e gli scrittori William Gibson e Bruce Sterling, padri del cyberpunk), Questa edizione è a cura degli Italiani, dell'Associazione Italiana Transumanisti dei vari Riccardo Campa, Stefano Vaj, Giulio Prisco, per l'ala artistica Graziano Cecchini e anche alcuni neofuturisti ferraresi, ovvero chi scrive e Giovanni Tuzet. In tal senso, dopo il precedente libro mediatico , "Transumanesimo: Cronache di una rivoluzione annunciata", a cura dello stesso Campa, florilegio dalla stampa nazionale sulla new wave futurologica e futurista transumanista, ora questo volume esclusivamente di Riccardo Campa, Mutare o Perire è sorta di introduzuone al grande vento annunciato internazionale di cui prima. Una specie di superbollettino, download aggiornato al 2010 del divenire di certo umanesimo scientifico, culturale e finanche estetico, di cui i Transumanisti sono certamente una delle avanguardie più attive e consapevoli....
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