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| 12.28.2002 |
Cloning
will be OK,
But not yet
Dr. J. reads
several
essays about human cloning
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| 12.21.2002 |
The Politics
of
Kids and Genes
Dr. J. talks with
Kathy Hudson, Director of the
Genetics
and Public Policy Center,
about the Center's recent
survey
of American's views on genetics and reproduction.
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| 12.14.2002 |
The
Future of Futurism
Dr. J. talks with
Joseph
Coates,
futurist consultant and author of
2025:
Scenarios of US and Global Society Reshaped by Science and
Technology.
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| 12.7.2002 |
Last
Flesh
Dr. J. talks with Christopher
Dewdney, author Last
Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era. Chris is the leading
transhumanist writer in Canada. |
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| 11.30.2002 |
The Biology of Star Trek
Dr. J. talks with Athena
Andreadis, neurobiologist and author of The
Biology of Star Trek, about the future of the human
race. |
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| 11.23.2002 |
Post-Symbolic
Communication
The second part of a talk by Jaron
Lanier, a pioneer of virtual reality. Lanier elaborates
ideas about VR permitting communication without language.
Lanier spoke to the Yale
Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism
on October 2, 2002. |
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| 11.09.2002 |
The
Turing Test and Human-Centered Computing
The first part of a talk by Jaron
Lanier, a pioneer of virtual reality. Lanier is reprising the
themes of his "Half
a Manifesto." Lanier spoke to the Yale Interdisciplinary
Bioethics Program's Working Group on Artificial Intelligence,
Nanotechnology and Transhumanism on October 2, 2002. |
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| 11.02.2002 |
The
Future and Its Enemies
Dr. J. talks with Virginia
Postrel, author of The
Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise,
and Progress, about the struggle between "stasists"
and "dynamists" over biotechnology. |
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| 10.26.2002 |
The
Religion of Technology
Dr. J. talks with David
Noble, author of Progress
Without People: In Defense of Luddism, The
Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
and Digital
Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education. |
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| 10.19.2002 |
Stanley
Aronowitz:
Red Green and Radical
Dr. J. talks with Stanley
Aronowitz, CUNY professor of Sociology, author of numerous books
including The
Last Good Job in America, Director of CUNY's Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and
Work. , and Green Party candidate for Governor of the State of New
York. |
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| 10.12.2002 |
Stem
Cells, Cloning and Life Extension
Dr. J. talks with biologist Stanley
Shostak, author of Becoming
Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy, about the
various avenues of life extension being explored. |
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| 10.5.2002 |
Transhumanism
and Respect for Human Life
Dr. J. talks with Wesley
J. Smith, author of Culture
of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, and many
other books, about animal, disability and fetal rights, and the
alleged misanthropy of transhumanism. (Part 2 of a two part discussion) |
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| 9.28.2002 |
The
Culture of Death
Dr. J. talks with Wesley
J. Smith, author of Culture
of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, and many
other books, about assisted suicide and the alleged misanthropy of
animal rights. (Part 1 of a two part discussion) |
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| 9.21.2002 |
And
The Blind Shall See: Transhumanism, Eugenics and Disability Rights
Dr. J. chats with Gregor Wolbring
about Christopher Reeves, seeing-tech for the blind, and Wesley
Smith's attack on transhumanism in the National Review. |
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| 9.14.2002 |
Robot
Ethics
When machine minds become self-willed and self-aware, will they develop
Superegos? Or will humans have to build ethics into machines? Are ethics
simply ruled-based systems, like Asimov's
3 Laws of Robotics, or do they require a basic empathy with fellow
creatures? If they require empathy, can we expect that of machines, and
can we have empathy for machines? Dr. J. speaks with Wendell
Wallach who is editing a book on Robot Ethics. |
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| 9.7.2002 |
The
Great Peregrination Mirror
A radio play about 3 kids who are lost in the year 1420. In order to find
their way home they must search for the Peregrination Mirror a task which
turns out to be harder then it sounds. Produced by Sarah Kronisch and
fellow students at The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. |
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Greatest Science Fiction Shows Selected By Ray Bradbury |
| 8.31.2002 |
The
Future of Extrapolation
A panel with Octavia
Butler, Glenn
Grant, Jeff
Hecht, Patrick Nielsen
Hayden, Graham Sleight, Shane
Tourtellotte, held at the 14th
Readercon. Despite the legitimate protest that SF is not prophecy,
serious extrapolation about the future has always been a viable SF mode.
With each passing year, we move deeper into a stretch of time that our
past greats attempted to envision. We thus have more of a chance to
compare extrapolated and actualized futures. What lessons are we
learning? |
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| 8.24.2002 |
Hard
Biological Science Fiction
A panel with Octavia
Butler, Hal
Clement, Kathryn
Cramer, Paul
Di Filippo, Gwyneth
Jones and Robert J. Sawyer,
held at the 14th Readercon.
For years biology was relatively neglected by writers of hard SF. But
that's changed dramatically in the last decade or so. Has this been
strictly a response to the rise of biotechnology, or was SF somewhat ahead
of the curve? A overview of this burgeoning subgenre and a look at where
it's headed. |
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| 8.17.2002 |
Our
Molecular Future 2
Dr. J. talks with
Douglas
Mulhall, international eco-activist and environmental journalist,
about the societal implication of the coming convergence of GRAIN (Genetic
Engineering, Robotics, AI and Nanotechnology). Mulhall is author of Our
Molecular Future. |
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| 8.10.2002 |
Our
Molecular Future 1
Dr. J. talks with Douglas
Mulhall, international eco-activist and environmental journalist,
about the coming convergence of GRAIN (Genetic Engineering, Robotics, AI
and Nanotechnology). Mulhall is author of Our
Molecular Future. |
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| 8.3.2002 |
Speculative
Fiction and Transhumanism
Dr. J. moderates a panel at the 14th
Readercon, with SF authors Jennifer
Barlow, Marcel
Gagne and Matt
Jarpe. Can a more self-conscious current of transhumanist SF build
public awareness of the risks and benefits of transhuman technologies, and
contribute to a balanced debate on their merits? |
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| 7.27.2002 |
Global
Brain II
Dr. J. talks with former rock promoter and respected
scientific Renaissance man Howard
Bloom about his book Global
Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century.
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| 7.20.2002 |
Global
Brain I
Dr. J. talks with former rock promoter and respected
scientific Renaissance man Howard
Bloom about the intertwining themes of science, culture and art in
his life. |
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| 7.13.2002 |
Right-Wing
Populism in America
Dr. J. talks with Chip
Berlet, senior researcher with Political
Research Associates, a group focusing on the threat from the
racist and paramilitary far-right. Mr. Berlet is also author of Right-Wing
Populism in America. We will talk about the impact of the Bush
Presidency and 9/11 on the far right. |
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| 7.6.2002 |
Biotech
Food:
Boon or Bane?
Dr. J. talks with Leonard
Gianessi, senior research scientist with the The
National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, a think tank
that argues there are many environmental and economic benefits coming out
of the Agrobiotech Revolution. In particular Dr. Gianessi will discuss his
new study "Plant
Biotechnology: Current and Potential Impact For Improving Pest Management
In U.S. Agriculture: An Analysis of 40 Case Studies" which
shows that genetically modified crops have reduced pesticide use and
increased yields for American farmers. |
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Genetically
Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation |
| 6.29.2002 |
From
Disabled to Superman
Dr. J. talks with Gregor
Wolbring, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Calgary,
founder and coordinator of the International Network on Bioethics and
Disability, and cofounder of the International
Federation of Thalidomiders. We will speak about transhumanist
bioethics, euthanasia and eugenics, and the pressure on the disabled to
adapt to ableist expectations. |
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| 6.8.2002 |
Forever
Retro Blues
Dr. J. talks with Kitty
Schooley, songwriter and author of Forever Retro Blues. |
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| 5.18.2002 |
DARE
to Stop the
War on Drugs
Dr. J. talks with former crack
addict Mary
Barr (of Conextions) and
former undercover policeman Jack
Cole (of Reconsider), about
the failure of the War on Drugs. |
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| 5.11.2002 |
Democratic
Work and Grassroots Globalization
Dr. J. talks with Len
Krimerman, Philosophy professor at the University of Connecticut and Editor of
GEO, "The Newsletter for
Democratic Workplaces and Globalization from Below". |
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| 5.4.2002 |
Rethinking
Reproduction
Bioethicist Bonnie
Steinbock's keynote address at a philosophy conference at the University
of Central Oklahoma on 14 April 2000. |
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| 4.27.2002 |
Redesigning
Humans
Dr. J. talks with Greg
Stock, author of Redesigning
Humans and Director of the UCLA
Program on Medicine, Technology and Society. |
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| 4.20.2002 |
Defending
Ned Ludd
Dr. J. talks with Kurt Heidinger, a Connecticut eco-activist, writing a
dissertation on Edward Abbey, fonuder of Earth First!, about
environmentalism, genetics and Luddism. |
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| 4.13.2002
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Extropians
Dr. J. talks with Max More,
founder/director of the Extropy Institute,
and leading futurist philosopher.
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| 4.6.2002 |
The
Ethics of Star Trek
Dr. J. talks with Judith
Barad, author of The
Ethics of Star Trek and Aquinas
on the Nature and Treatment of Animals. |
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| 3.30.2002 |
The
Mismeasure of Desire
Dr. J. talks with Ed Stein,
professor of law at the Cardozo School of Law, and author of The
Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual
Orientation. |
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| 3.23.2002 |
Who
Is Responsible for Your Genes?
Dr. J. talks with Sophia Kolehmainen, Program Director of the Council
for Responsible Genetics, about the CRG's work "fostering public
debate about the social, ethical, and environmental implications of the
new genetic technologies." |
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| 3.16.2002 |
The
Shattered Self
Dr. J. talks with Pierre Baldi, computational geneticist and author of
The
Shattered Self—The End of Natural Evolution. Dr. Baldi argues
that our sense of self is eroding as biotechnology advances.
and Feminists for Reprotech
Dr.
J. also talks w with Dion Farquhar, author of The
Other Machine : Discourse and Reproductive Technologies and
essays such as "Reproductive
Technologies Are Here to Stay".
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| 3.9.2002 |
Wild
Democracy
Dr. J. talks with Gus
diZerega, author of Persuasion,
Power and Polity: A Theory of Democratic Self-Organization. Dr.
diZerega is a pagan libertarian political philosopher. |
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Persuasion,
Power and Polity: A Theory of Democratic Self-Organization |
| 3.2.2002 |
Arguing AI
Dr. J. Talks with Sam Williams, author of Arguing
AI: The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science and Eliezer
Yudkowsky, Research Fellow with the Singularity
Institute for Artificial Intelligence. |
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| 2.23.2002 |
Forces of Habit
Dr. J. Talks with David
Courtwright, author of Forces
of Habit: Drugs and Making of the Modern World.
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| 2.16.2002 |
Cloning and
Frankenfoods:
What's All the Fuss?
Dr. J. Talks with Greg
Pence, author of Who's
Afraid of Human Cloning? and Designer
Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World?. |
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| 2.9.2002 |
Community
Technology
Dr. J. talks with Theo Theodorus Ibrahim and his comrades at Community
Technology in London about their efforts to build a radical,
protechnology, transhumanist community service agency. |
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| 2.2.2002 |
Was
the Universe Intelligently Designed?
Dr. J. talks with William
Dembski, leading proponent of the crypto-creationist Intelligent
Design Theory, and author of No
Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without
Intelligence, and also with Nick
Bostrom, chair of the World
Transhumanist Association, and author of Anthropic
Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy. |
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Anthropic
Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy by
Nick Bostrom
No
Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without
Intelligence by William A. Dembski |
| 1.26.2002 |
Twice Dead
Dr. J. talks with anthropologist Margaret
Lock, author of Twice
Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. |
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| 1.12.2002 |
Cyborg
Citizen
Dr. J. talks with Chris Hables
Gray, author of Cyborg Citizen, about the changing parameters of citizenship in our emerging
transhuman society.
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