Plastic Brains, Femmebots, and Aliens Watching TV - Reason Magazine

Plastic Brains, Femmebots, and Aliens Watching TV - Reason Magazine: "Cambridge, Mass. The Humanity Summit convened at the Harvard University Science Center earlier this month to talk about plastinated brains, conscious computer chips, iPhone apps that display brain spikes, and other topics both fun and futuristic. Most of the folks gathered for the conference were transhumanists, people who support the use of science and technology to radically improve human intelligence, emotional capacities, and physical characteristics, including making death voluntary. Critics, such as Johns Hopkins University political theorist Francis Fukuyama, have called transhumanism the world’s most dangerous idea."