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A Glorious Future

Humans are not an end, but a beginning. They need not fear imaginary gods, but need instead to create minds more powerful than the gods.

The designer baby debate could start a war

The genetics revolution that will transform our health care, and ultimately our evolutionary trajectory as a species has already begun.

Frozen in time: You can be cryogenically preserved, but will you ever be revived?

The rationale for those considering cryonics is that there's no guarantee they will ever be revived, but that it is reasonable that they might be.

This neural implant could radically improve the lives of disabled people

Doctors are preparing to test a brain-computer interface that can be implanted onto a human brain, no open surgery required.

Ten steps to prepare for an exponential future

The exponential future is coming faster than most of us appreciate or are ready for. Like it or not, we are now all futurists.

The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence

We are going to have to start thinking about how to minimize the looming A.I.-fueled gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Why Nobel laureate David Baltimore doesn’t support moratorium on CRISPR babies

Do you envision a day when gene editing will be safe and effective enough to use for germline modifications? Baltimore: I do.

From Human To Cyborg: Are You Willing To Augment Your Body?

As technological innovations multiply day by day, it will be more and more usual to augment our bodies with the help of machines.

We Are Here To Create

We’re all going to face a very challenging next fifteen or twenty years, when half of the jobs are going to be replaced by machines.

Have humans reached the end of evolution? Not under these 4 scenarios

Is natural selection still a major force in human evolution? We've been taught to think the answer must be yes. But is it really true?

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