Transhuman/Posthuman Web Report



In Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire, the digital artists of the late 21st 
century are no longer hyphenated or hybrids. They are simply artificers.
And in Interface Culture, Steven Johnson refers to a similar melding, a
kind of vocation: "The artisans of interface culture . . . have become
some new fusion of artist and engineer--interfacers, cyberpunks, Web
masters--charged with the epic task of representing our digital machines,
making sense of information in its raw form."
	-steve.dietz
	b e y o n d i n t e r f a c e : net art and Art on the Net I



The Extropy Institute: What do "Transhumanism" and "Posthumanism" mean?
http://www.lucifer.com/~exi/faq/transpost.html


The Zaius Institute: (escalator as escalator)
http://www.zaius.com/dept/about/pursuant.htm
	

More Deffinitions: A comprehensive list at "Aleph"
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Words/index.html
	cross reference...


	Augment(able) Now!:

Body Augmentation:

	Wired Article: Dress Code

	History of Wearables: (see also deffinition of)
		We are entering a pivotal era in which we will become
		inextricably intertwined with computational technology
		that will become part of our everyday lives in a much
		more immediate and intimate way than in the past. The
		recent explosion of interest in so-called "wearable
		computers" is indicative of this general trend. 
			-An historical account of the `WearComp'
			 and `WearCam' inventions developed for
			 applications in `Personal Imaging'
			    Steve Mann

	Biorobotics lab at U of Washington:
	rcs.ee.washington.edu/BRL

	See also:
	U Virginia's Page: (good links)
	http://www.people.virginia.edu/~vg3z/wc.html
	Excite Search:
	http://excitesearch.netscape.com/search.gw?lk=excite_netcenter_us&search=wearable+computers


Intelligence & Mind:

	Amplifying Cognition: Extending Memory and Intelligence, Anders Sandberg
	http://www.extropy.org/eo/articles/ampcog.htm
	
		Internal Software: Rhyme, Meter, Lists, Mnemonics, "The Walk"
		External Sofware:  Personal Organizers, Hypertext
				(e.g.Drexler 1987), Information
				searching/indexing tools...etc.
		External Hardware: Writing, Camcorder, Cellphone, wearables
		Internal Hardware: Smart Drugs...(with reservations)


Life Extention:

	Cute Comic & Description
	http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Individual/Life/

	Life Extention Foundation

	Cryonic Suspension ... Personal Uploading (cartoon)
	Imortality Inc.

	Alliance for Aging Research




	Idea of the 'human' as one seed or evolutionary step:

transhuman n. an evolutionary process from being human to becoming posthuman
	-Natasha Vita More, (www.extropic-art.com/transart.htm)

Humanity as seed:
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/

The Singularity Principal:
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Singularity/Singularity_limits.html

	Vinge foresees the possibility that "large computer networks (and
their associated users) may "wake up" as a superhumanly intelligent 
entity." Alternatively, Vinge says, "computer/human interfaces may become 
so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly
intelligent." Improving that interface is the goal of both the computer
industry and neuroscientists. Voice activation and virtual reality are two
approaches already available if not very efficient. Computers are being
trained to recognize and respond to human emotional states (dogs can do
it, after all). Brain waves have been used to control computer cursors and
mouse buttons, and PC based EEG-like machines are already available for
hobbyists. Peter Fromherz and Alfred Stett of the Max Planck Institute
have succeeded in developing a silicon chip that can directly stimulate
single neurons without damaging them and receive information back in the
form of ionic nerve impulses. Can a true cyberpunk style brain-computer
interface be far away? 
	-Surviving the Singularity, by Steve Alan Edwards
	http://www.seraph.org/Crf/Crfsci/scsae2.html

Hypertext Publishing and The Evolution of Knowledge:
http://www.foresight.org/WebEnhance/HPEK0.html


	Mainifestos:

Transhumanist Art Statement (& FAQ):
http://www.extropic-art.com/transart.htm
or try http://www.seraph.org/Crf/Crfarts/arnvm1.html

The Cybernetic Manifesto
pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MANIFESTO.html


	Where from Here? What's possible:

Jennicam:
http://jennicam.org

Cyberia: (a darker version)
http://www.ctraces.com/Circuit_Traces/CT3_1/cyberia.html

We Borg, by Anders Sandberg
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Posthumanity/WeBorg.html

Posthumanism Institute:
http://www.posthuman.org/


	Additional Resources:

Particularly Good Posthuman/Transhuman sites, (including those cited):

Aleph
www.aleph.se/Trans/

contemporary renaissance futures
http://www.seraph.org/aboutcrf.html

The Extrpy Institute
www.extropy.org

The World Transhumanist Association
www.transhumanism.com


The Rest:

A great list at Lucifer.com
www.lucifer.com/~sasha/org.html

Yahoo's Directory on Transhumanism:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Philosophy/Transhumanism/

Edge, third Culture...digerati... (scientists networking)
http://www.edge.org/

A slide presentation by Bruce Sterling:
http://www.research.microsoft.com/acm97/bs/index.htm

Engines of Creation, By Erik K Drexler
http://www.foresight.org/EOC/

Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute
http://www.ceri.com/

State of the Common Good, or the Knowledge Civilization (an online book or essay)
http://www.ionet.net/~jburch/c9602tc.html