Category Archives: Speakers

The following short video provides an introduction to some of the ideas discussed at the conference:

Footnote: This is the second version of this video.  The previous version can still be found on the AuthorSTREAM site.

Humanity+ UK2010 speaker Nick Bostrom gave a TED talk in 2005 on the subject “Humanity’s 3 biggest problems”:

There are lots of interesting connections between points in this presentation and points already covered in this blog. See if you can spot them!

The following guest article is authored by Amon Twyman.
Part 3: Epistemology and Future Shock
Excerpt from “Shock Level Five: Augmented Perception, Perceptuo-Centrism, and Reality”
This is the last of three excerpts from a paper which provides a little theoretical background to the presentation I will be giving at the Humanity+ UK 2010 conference. My presentation will make [...]

Humanity+ UK2010 speaker Rachel Armstrong was filmed last year delivering a TED talk, “Architecture that repairs itself“:

The following guest article is authored by Amon Twyman.
Part 2: The Anthropic Principle
Excerpt from “Shock Level Five: Augmented Perception, Perceptuo-Centrism, and Reality”
This is the second of three excerpts from a paper which provides a little theoretical background to the presentation I will be giving at the Humanity+ UK 2010 conference. My presentation will make sense [...]

The following guest article is authored by Amon Twyman.
Part 1: Perceptual Augmentation
Excerpt from “Shock Level Five: Augmented Perception, Perceptuo-Centrism, and Reality”
This is one of three excerpts from a paper which provides a little theoretical background to the presentation I will be giving at the Humanity+ UK 2010 conference. My presentation will make sense without reading [...]

The following video “Quest for Immortality” was produced by the New Scientist in October, 2007, and features three futurists who will be speaking at the Humanity+, UK 2010 event:

Anders Sandberg
Aubrey de Grey
Nick Bostrom.

The following guest article is authored by Aubrey de Grey.
It was previously published in Volume 12, Number 6 of the journal Rejuvenation Research (2009).
The Einsteinian anti-aging imperative
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”
Albert Einstein
You don’t need to be a biologist to know that a lot of bad things happen to our [...]

The following guest article is authored by David Pearce:
The End of Suffering?
“During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive; others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear; others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites; thousands of all kinds are dying from starvation, [...]

Nowadays there’s lots of discussion about Apple’s iPhone, and Google’s Nexus One Android.  These are among the latest smartphones, which place all kinds of interesting new functionality into the hands of users.  They’ve generated lots of excitement.  In some ways, they’re great poster children for technology.
My own history is that I was part of the [...]