Podcast appearances and mentions of george dvorsky

Photo: 1945 GREENWICH No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow BILLIONAIRES ON THE MOON. : #HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com.   George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii RV. (ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 30, 2022) https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Classic#HotelMars: #PRC aims for 2027:. #HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com.   George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii RV. (Originally posted March 30, 2022)#v https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Classic#HotelMars: The Off-World Club: HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com.   George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii (Originally posted March 30, 2022). https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #ClassicHotelMars: This Magnificents in their Flying Machines: #HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com. George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii   (Originally posted March 30, 2022) https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

We welcomed George Dvorsky to discuss competition with the NASA Artemis lunar human landers. Read the full story and summary for this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, March 30, 2022.

Photo:  Lunar Lander Model, NASA Glenn Research Center; 1963 modelr #HotelMars: The Great Billionaire Moon Lander Race.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.com.   George Dvorsky @dvorsky. Senior staff science reporter. @Gizmodo and electronic musician. @falsedmitrii RV. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/03/spacex-will-have-competition-on-the-moon-as-nasa-seeks-a-second-lunar-lander/

The rise of Nazism before World War II wasn't limited to Germany. The German-Americna Bund (Amerikadeutscher Volksbund) formed in Buffalo, New York, in 1936, to promote a favorable view of Nazi Germany. It quickly grew to 70 local groups around the country, with 20 training camps where kids aged 8-18 practiced military drills and wore Nazi-style uniforms. By 1939, 20,000 people attended the Bund's Pro American Rally in Madison Square Garden. When Prohibition ended in 1933, Jewish American gangsters who had been running liquor businesses suddenly had more time on their hands, and they decided to fight back against the Bund. In Newark, New Jersey, Abner “Longie” Zwillman formed a secret organization called the Minutemen to fight the Nazis. The Minutemen, who operated from 1933 to 1941, would break up Bund meetings using their fists, baseball bats, and stink bombs. The Minutemen were based in New Jersey, but Jewish gangsters around the country fought the Bund, including in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. To help us learn more, I'm joined on this episode by Leslie K. Barry, author of the historic novel, Newark Minutemen: A True 1930s Legend about One Man's Mission to Save a Nation's Soul Without Losing His Own, whose uncle was a Minuteman in Newark in the 1930s. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The image is: “German American Bund parade in New York City on East 86th St.,” World-Telegram photo, New York, 1937, Public Domain. The audio clip is from the German American Bund Rally on February 20, 1939, and is in the Public Domain.   Additional Sources: “There Were American Nazi Summer Camps Across the US in the 1930s,” by George Dvorsky, Gizmodo, November 19, 2015. “American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund,” by Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, June 5, 2017. “When Nazis Took Manhattan,” by Sarah Kate Kramer, NPR: All Things Considered, February 20, 2019. “American Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers Have Been Around Since the 1930's,” by Eric Ginsburg, Teen Vogue, November 26, 2018. “American Nazism and Madison Square Garden,” The National World War II Museum, April 14, 2021. “Field of Vision - A Night at the Garden [video],” directed by Marshall Curry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the video version, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/Ao0epMvyjYo George Dvorsky won the Berkshire Theatre Critics Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Daddy Warbucks in ANNIE at the Mac-Haydn Theatre in Chatham NY last summer. On Broadway, George appeared in the title role of The Scarlet Pimpernel and as Henry Spofford in the revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. His other Broadway credits include the Tony Award–winning Passion, as well as Marilyn: An American Fable and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. He starred as Baron Bomburst/Lord Scrumptious in the national tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and as Billy Crocker opposite Chita Rivera in Anything Goes at the Paper Mill Playhouse. He later played his favorite role, Georg Nowack in She Loves Me, also at the Paper Mill Playhouse. His numerous recordings include the cast albums of Closer Than Ever, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Brigadoon, Leading Men Don't Dance, and Pete 'n' Keely. His voice can also be heard on the EMI label's Broadway Showstoppers, Jerome Kern Treasury, and Kiss Me, Kate, where he sings the role of Bill Calhoun. George is also proud to have been a part of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, and Mulan, for which he sang in the ensemble with some standout solo lines. His solo CDs, In the Still of the Night and All Through the Night, are available on the JAY Records label. http://www.georgedvorsky.net https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0245353 https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/George-Dvorsky https://english-voice-over.fandom.com/wiki/George_Dvorsky

George Dvorsky (@dvorsky) is a Canadian futurist, science writer, and ethicist that has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=39847889" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]

George Dvorsky (@dvorsky) is a Canadian futurist, science writer, and ethicist that has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He is also a senior staff reporter at the popular tech blog Gizmodo, a contributing editor at io9 where he writes about science, culture, and futurism and blogs at sentientdevelopments.comGeorge is a founding member of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, he is Chair of the Board and is the founder and program director for its Rights of Non-Human Persons program. In addition, George is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and has served on the Board of Directors for Humanity+ for two terms.George's work has been featured in such publications as The Guardian, the BBC, CBC, Forbes, the New York Times, Slate, Radio Free Europe, and al-Jazeera. Outside of work, he is also an avid CrossFitter, an ancestral health enthusiast, and an accomplished music performer, composer, and recording engineer.In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:- How life extension and longevity affect society and the technologies ending aging- The dangers of AI and problems with containment- Why consciousness is such a hard problem and what it means for all of us- How George's study of the past influences his views on the future- Why mutually assured destruction could become a thing again- The reason AI regulation is harder than it seems- Which technologies have George most excited today and why- Why tech ethics are so important going forward- What happens if and when we invent AGI- The problems and possibilities of exponential technology in today's world

Prof. Nancy Jecker came to Queen's University Belfast to speak at this philosophy conference (https://philevents.org/event/show/64710) on the ethics of chronic illness, and I used that opportunity to ask her about her philosophical interests and work. We talked about life and death – in particular, lives lived with chronic illneses, and the ways that a person's story doesn't end just at the moment that they die. We talked about intergenerational ethical issues (for example, about caring for the dependent elderly). She introduced me to the concept of an 'itai hoteru', which are Japanese hotels-for-the newly-deceased, and the 421-problem in China. Here are some links to help you find out more about Nancy and her work: * Nancy Jecker's webpage (https://phil.washington.edu/people/nancy-s-jecker) at the philosophy department at the University of Washington * A list of Nancy Jecker's publications (https://philpapers.org/s/Nancy%20S.%20Jecker) from PhilPapers.org - many with links to the articles. Don't forget that if you need help getting access to paywalled articles, you can try contacting authors and politely asking them whether they'd be happy to send you a .pdf. Using the hashtag #icanhazpdf on twitter can be sometimes be useful as well. * Here's Nancy's piece on itai hoteru in the journal Bioethics: 'What do we owe the newly dead? (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bioe.12578) An ethical analysis of findings from Japan's corpse hotels workers', co-authored with Eriko Miwa. It's behind a paywall at this link, but you can read a pre-print version on her ResearchGate page here (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332242536_What_do_we_owe_the_newly_dead_An_ethical_analysis_of_findings_from_Japan's_corpse_hotels_workers). * In the episode Nancy talks about using the 'capabilities approach' to justice in her work on intergenerational justice and the ethics to do with ageing. Over on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy you can find this entry on Amartya Sen's 'capabilities approach' (https://www.iep.utm.edu/sen-cap/), which is a good overview. But more recently people are discussing Martha Nussbaum's version of this approach, so you might find it useful to skip down to §7 (https://www.iep.utm.edu/sen-cap/#H7). * We mention the 4-2-1 problem (or 4:2:1 problem, strictly, since it's about ratios), and here's an accessible article in io9 which talks more generally about China's looming population crisis. 'The Unintended Consequences Of China's One-child Policy' (https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-unintended-consequences-of-chinas-one-child-policy-5948528) by George Dvorsky. * We briefly talked about 'Parfit's non-identity problem' without really explaining it. It's a problem that Derrick Parfit proposes in the final section of his book Reasons and Persons (1984, chapter 16). The problem is summarised in this (slightly challenging, not hugely accessible) entry of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nonidentity-problem/). You can see Parfit discussing it in person over on this YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtU0pah4R8Q), again, not entirely accessible to people who are new to philosophy. Please do feel encouraged to get in touch to send any thoughts, responses, ideas, reactions, feedback or ideas about this episode or any of the others, I'd love to hear from you. To do that, you can just head over to the contact (https://www.generousquestions.co.uk/contact) page. The theme music is from li_serios05 (https://store.broken20.com/album/li-series-05-jack-on-piano) by TVO on Broken20 records (https://store.broken20.com/) under Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). A transcript of this conversation is available, you just need to click on the button that says 'transcript'. The transcripts for each episode have been beautifully prepared by Becci.

This week, my guest will be science writer and futurist George Dvorsky, from Gizmodo and io9.Support Universe Today Podcast

This week, my guest will be science writer and futurist George Dvorsky, from Gizmodo and io9.

George Dvorsky (@dvorsky) is a Canadian futurist, science writer, and ethicist that has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He is also a senior staff reporter at the popular tech blog Gizmodo, a contributing editor at io9 where he writes... The post The Dangers of AI and Safety of Mutually Assured Destruction | George Dvorsky appeared first on The Syndicate.

George Dvorsky (@dvorsky) is a Canadian futurist, science writer, and ethicist that has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He is also a senior staff reporter at the popular tech blog Gizmodo, a contributing editor at io9 where he writes about science, culture, and futurism and blogs at sentientdevelopments.comGeorge is a founding member of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, he is Chair of the Board and is the founder and program director for its Rights of Non-Human Persons program. In addition, George is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and has served on the Board of Directors for Humanity+ for two terms.George's work has been featured in such publications as The Guardian, the BBC, CBC, Forbes, the New York Times, Slate, Radio Free Europe, and al-Jazeera. Outside of work he is also an avid CrossFitter, an ancestral health enthusiast, and an accomplished music performer, composer, and recording engineer.You can listen right here on iTunesIn our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * How life extension and longevity affect society and the technologies ending aging * The dangers of AI and problems with containment * Why consciousness is such a hard problem and what it means for all of us * How George's study of the past influences his views on the future * Why mutually assured destruction could become a thing again * The reason AI regulation is harder than it seems * Which technologies have George most excited today and why * Why tech ethics are so important going forward * What happens if and when we invent AGI * The problems and possibilities of exponential technology in today's world--Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFMFringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.Donate

This week’s guest is George Dvorsky, futurist, science journalist, and long-time contributing editor at legendary sci/fi blog io9 at http://gizmodo.com.http://twitter.com/dvorskyhttp://kinja.com/georgedvorskyhttp://www.sentientdevelopments.com/https://io9.gizmodo.com/20-crucial-terms-every-21st-century-futurist-should-kno-1545499202We Discuss:• Today’s explosive evolution of AI personal assistants, and where it’s heading…• Will children today, immersed in a world of AI dolls and smarthome devices that speak to them by name, grow up with a different idea of what entities deserve our moral concern?• The pressing cybersecurity and surveillance problems we encounter in the process of filling our lives with internet-connected devices.• Autonomous vehicles and weapons and the ethics of machine intelligence.• The history of our attempts to suppress or prevent the industrialization of warfare.• AI as proxy selves that we can deputize to act as us, on our behalf…• What kind of literacies will we need to have in a world of mature AI?• The future of human-AI collaboration in the arts and creative media.• This story he covered for Gizmodo:https://gizmodo.com/a-four-year-old-boy-used-siri-to-save-his-unconscious-m-1793584170• Is paper a “broken” non-interactive touchscreen?• Mapmaking and prosthesis, and how differently we orient ourselves in landscapes now that we use Google Maps (or Waze, or Apple Maps, or Mapquest, or or or).• And is it ethical to increase the intelligence of other animals? Is it wrong to create an Interspecies Internet that weaves nonhuman persons into our already-messy processes of electronic governance and culture? Or is it morally required of us to go “all together now” and bring the rest of the biosphere with us into the heavens we create?• The transformation of the biosphere into superintelligence – as an ethical necessity.“I always like to look at things around us today that we will laugh at years from now and then marvel at how stupid it was…”“My own gut instinct is that very, very few people would willingly plow their car through a bus stop filled with passengers. So why do we feel that we wouldn’t want to own a car that’s programmed with that same ethical sensibility?”“I’m on team AI. I’m all for it. I cannot wait to see what artificial intelligence may do…four to five generations from now.”Subscribe on Apple Podcasts:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505?mt=2Subscribe on Google Podcasts:http://bit.ly/future-fossils-googleSubscribe on Stitcher:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/michael-garfield/future-fossilsSubscribe on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/2eCYA4ISHLUWbEFOXJ8C5vSubscribe on iHeart Radio:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-FUTURE-FOSSILS-28991847/Join our Facebook Discussion Group for daily news and conversations:http://facebook.com/groups/futurefossilsSupport the show (and an avalanche of other mind-expanding media):http://patreon.com/michaelgarfield See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

[This program first aired April 7, 2008.] Topics: Here's the complete text of the H.G. Wells classic, The Time Machine.How will the MOSH ("mostly original substrate humans" - which means normal, unenhanced humans) fair in the future? Phil has published some thoughts.Michael Darling shares that the Star Trek:TNG episode "Ship in a Bottle" is his favorite.Stephen is impressed with his new iPod Touch. In addition to being a music/movie player, it's a wifi device. You can download music directly from iTunes without a computer. It's got a direct link to Youtube and google maps. You can get your email. It's the iPhone without the phone.Stephen believes that the best answer to the Fermi Paradox is that we are, probably, the only intelligent life in this galaxy. George Dvorsky has a great blog post on the subject.On the other hand, Phil may have found extraterrestrial life in his own backyard.

Maine is home to a broad diversity of talented artists, actors and musicians. Today we speak with two individuals who are not only accomplished artists in their own right, but have also made it their mission to bring other talented people to our home state. George Dvorsky is an actor and entertainer who is also the creative director for Vinegar Hill Music Theater, which is completing its first season. Carol Noonan is a national recording artist and singer/songwriter who co-founded and runs Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield https://www.themainemag.com/radio/2016/11/entertaining-maine-265/

  In today’s podcast, Jon talks with futurist and bioethicist George Dvorsky about the future of human enhancement. Topics covered include radical life extension, editing the human germline, multiplex parenting, artificial wombs, intelligence augmentation, moral enhancement, and more. What enhancements are just around the corner, and how cautious should we be when it comes to […]

On a special day I am stepping out of the box and bringing a fabulous entertainer, George Dvorsky to Word of Mom Radio. I have had the pleasure of seeing George perform at the Westchester Broadway Theatre in their current production of South Pacific, in the role of Emile deBeque, and knew I wanted to share him here!  Join us on Monday, November 10th at 10amPT/1pmET and live on your time in archive, and enjoy some music from his CD's and more importantly, find out about the life of a working actor. We are going to be sharing some of the songs from his CD's including "Long Ago, Far Away", "I Wish I Could Forget You", "There But For You" and more. Our lines are going to be open so give us a call at 646 595 3163 and be part of the conversation. You can find out George's extensive history in theatre on his website www.georgedvorsky.net. For those of you in the NY area, you can see him in South Pacific through January - visit www.broadwaytheatre.com for ticket information. Be sure to take a moment to connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and email dori@wordofmomradio.com with questions, comments and for information on how to share here on Word of Mom Radio.        

George Dvorsky (futurist and ethicist) is our featured guest. Topics: Why he has changed from a Vegetarian Diet to a Paleolithic Diet (which is limited to the foods our species ate before the rise of farming and animal husbandry),  and his recent personal-record-breaking dead-lift of 400 pounds. Also, his expectations concerning: techlepathy (neurotechnologically-assisted telepathy); postgenderism; astrosociobiology (the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies); caloric restriction; the work of Matt Lalonde and Rob Wolfe; the Conscientious Carnivore; Ancestral Health; Primal Transhumanism; and his worry that the Fermi Paradox represents a "Great Filter" which may still lay ahead of us, and which our species might not survive. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the March 7, 2012 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 41 minutes]. This is the final third of an interview recorded using Skype on February 17, 2012. George Dvorsky is a Canadian futurist and ethicist. He has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He is the Chairman of the Board at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and is the program director for the Rights of Non-Human Persons program.

George Dvorsky (futurist and ethicist) is our featured guest. Topics: Is it wise to use our emotions (especially repugnance) as a guide to truth? Giving protective rights to intelligent animals (apes, whales, dolphins, and elephants), and eventually (when the time is right) to artificially intelligent software; augmenting animals to raise their IQ (animal uplifting); the new movie Planet of the Apes; the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey; better ways to conduct the search for extraterrestrials (SETI); Dyson Spheres; the Fermi Paradox; why your host hopes we will forever move to universes of ever increasing dimensionality; as well as artificially created universes and simulated universes. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 29, 2012 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 61 minutes]. This is the second third of an interview recorded using Skype on February 17, 2012. George Dvorsky is a Canadian futurist and ethicist. He has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He is the Chairman of the Board at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and is the program director for the Rights of Non-Human Persons program.

This is my second interview with George Dvorsky. The first time I had George on Singularity 1 on 1 we ended up talking for 1h 14 minutes. I am afraid that I enjoy his company so much that this time we talked for almost 1h 40min. During our conversation we discuss issues such as: Dvorsky’s agonizing decision to […]

George Dvorsky (futurist and ethicist) is our featured guest. Topics: the importance of studying history in order to extrapolate the future; how democratic transhumanism differs from other flavours of transhumanism; why he is a technogaian environmentalist and how that relates to Bright Green Environmentalism; the abolition of suffering in all species; political problems of putting a thermostat on the earth; as well as the good and bad of living an engineered blissful existence permanently. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 22, 2012 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 62 minutes]. This is the first third of an interview recorded using Skype on February 17, 2012. George Dvorsky is a Canadian futurist and ethicist. He has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He is the Chairman of the Board at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and is the program director for the Rights of Non-Human Persons program. News Item: Your host's most transhumanist novel is now available for purchase through Amazon's Kindle program. All the main characters in Plague at Redhook have augmentations which transhumanists look forward to possessing. Computers implanted in their bodies and hardwired into their brains, for example, such that they can share with one another their verbal thoughts, as well as images of what they are currently looking at, or what they remember seeing in the past. These augmentations are not new to them, this is how they live their normal lives. The plot is an action-adventure story combined with a medical-mystery story combined with an exploring-an-alien-world story. And remember: you don't need a Kindle to purchase and read Kindle books. There is a free app that turns most smart phones into a Kindle reader. And there is a free downloadable program which will turn a PC or a Mac into a Kindle reader as well. So if you have $3.99 to burn, and want to see what your host thinks the future might be like in story form, consider buying a copy of Plague at Redhook.

In this edition of Singularity Podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with prominent Canadian transhumanist and animal rights advocate George Dvorsky. George is both a passionate and fascinating interlocutor and, even though I spend over 1h 15 min interviewing him, I feel that I could have easily spent double that time while still remaining […]

George Dvorsky, executive editor of betterhumans.com, is this week's featured interview. Betterhumans.com is a webzine with News, Articles, and interactive features serving the transhumanist community. George Dvorsky is also the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and has served on the Board of Directors for the World Transhumanist Association.One of Canada's leading futurists, activists and award winning bloggers, George Dvorsky has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology.In this capacity he has been interviewed by: The BBC, Radio Free Europe, and by the British newspaper The Guardian. He's also been on the Canadian television news-magazine The Hour.Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 23, 2008 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 84 minutes]Topics include:Why there is a negative perception of transhumanism in the general public, and what we can do about it.Why the mainstream medical community is working hard to achieve the goals of transhumanism (without realizing it) and will continue to work toward them with or without our encouragement.The vaccination of children is a perfect example of the transhumanist ideal, George explains, since it is an engineered hyper-immunity produced by technological intervention.Why the complete end of personal privacy may be unavoidable and imminent.We as a species find ourselves living with an increasing array of apocalyptic technologies, George says, and we have to learn how to live with these things since we can't un-invent them.His personal expectations of The Singularity.Life extension in general, and how long he personally expects to live.Why the areas of transhumanist thought that remain controversial are those more removed from just keeping people healthy, and more in the direction of making people better than they ever were before. These areas include such things as increasing the human IQ, life extension, and wiring computers directly into the human brain.As well as many other subjects.