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What Sorts course
I’ll be teaching a fairly large, mixed grad / undergrad seminar this coming semester as an ethics course with the working title that coincides with the blog: what sorts of people should there be… more →
What Sorts of People
What Sorts course
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Spirit of our Time wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ll be teaching a fairly large, mixed grad / undergrad seminar this coming semester as an eth … more →
Does anyone remember "lobotomy"?
Spirit of our Time wrote 2 weeks ago: Picture of brain surgery The New York Times recent Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Both Hope and Risk … more →
The Ashley Treatment: From the Beginning
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Spirit of our Time wrote 4 weeks ago: Anyone interested, even vaguely, in what all the fuss is about on the Ashley X case, or who wants a … more →
KedgeForward: Our Guiding Principles
zoecarnate wrote 1 month ago: Last week, we posted on KedgeForward’s raison d’être. Today we want to tell you what get … more →
Human Kinds--Ray Kurzweil and Uploading: Just Say "No"--Q & A
Spirit of our Time wrote 3 months ago: Panel questions for Nick Agar–from Natasha Vita-More on either / or, and Ed Stein on backing u … more →
Human Kinds--Ray Kurzweil and Uploading: Just Say "No"--Parts 2 and 3
Spirit of our Time wrote 3 months ago: Here Nick moves on to uploading proper, starting with ideas about cochlear implants and the incremen … more →
Human Kinds--Ray Kurzweil and Uploading: Just Say "No"--Part 1
Spirit of our Time wrote 4 months ago: Nick Agar’s talk at the Human Kinds Symposium focuses on Kurzweil on uploading, and gives his … more →
Human Kinds--Species Typical, Sub-typical, Beyond Typical--Q@A
Spirit of our Time wrote 4 months ago: A couple of questions from our panel for Gregor Wolbring–one from Ed Stein on human rights, an … more →
Human Kinds--Species Typical, Sub-typical, Beyond Typical--Part 2
Spirit of our Time wrote 4 months ago: Gregor Wolbring in full swing on ableism and its relationship to sexism, racism, caste bias, anti-en … more →
SXSW 2010: We Need Your Vote!
Frank Spencer wrote 4 months ago: The Panel Picker public voting system for the South by South West (SXSW) conference opened today (Au … more →
Human Kinds--Species Typical, Sub-typical, Beyond Typical--Part 1
Spirit of our Time wrote 4 months ago: Here is Gregor Wolbring’s talk at the Human Kinds Symposium, including my introduction of Greg … more →
Human Kinds: Design Issues Concerning Extreme Life Extension--Part 3
Spirit of our Time wrote 4 months ago: The final part of Natasha Vita-More’s talk, together with an audible but hard-to-hear exchange … more →
Human Kinds: Design Issues Concerning Extreme Life Extension--Parts 1 and 2
Spirit of our Time wrote 4 months ago: Here are the first two part of the first talk in the Human Kinds symposium at the APA by renowned tr … more →
"Creating the Future": A Presentation on Developing an Internal Foresight Capacity
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Frank Spencer wrote 5 months ago: As noted in a earlier post, I recently gave a presentation on the basics of Strategic Foresight thou … more →
The Creative Process: Creating the Future
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Frank Spencer wrote 5 months ago: This Thursday evening at 8pm (July 16th, NY time), I will be speaking on the Presence International … more →
Vehmas and Sobsey commentaries: now captioned
Spirit of our Time wrote 5 months ago: Below are the short commentaries–now closed captioned–delivered by Professors Simo Vehma … more →
On the new growth attenuation paper
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huahima wrote 6 months ago: Thank you for your wake up call, Spirit of our time, and thank you also for inviting me to write her … more →
Health Care Reform and the Disability Community
Spirit of our Time wrote 7 months ago: from Ari Ne’eman, President of the Autism Self-Advocacy Network, Health Care Reform … at … more →
Gregory Stock on the Uses of Future Technologies
Spirit of our Time wrote 7 months ago: Here is an older, short talk by Greg Stock, from 2003–How Biotech Will Drive Our Evolution … more →
