technological evolution . cosmic calendar
transhuman & extropian philosophy

Carl Sagan's Cosmic Calendar

Cryonics by Ralph Merkle

Gregory Paul, Earl Cox. Beyond Humanity: Cyberevolution and Future Minds.

James L. Halperin. The First Immortal

Pesce, Mark. Bios and Logos. Mindstates Jamaica, October, 2002

Davis, Erik. Techgnosis

Davis, Erik. Technopagans.

Jim Pinto. Evolution of the TechnoHuman, 2000.

Excerpt: The three technology laws are bringing about an advance in civilization that has significant and far-reaching consequences. Moore’s law (exponential increase in processing power), Gilder’s law (exponential increase in communications bandwidth) and Metcalfe’s law (exponential increase in connected intelligence) - the combination is producing results that are unfolding with awesome speed - bringing irreversible change to the human species.

Wesley Charme. Becoming Immortal: Nanotechnology, You, and the Demise of Death.

Burkhead, Lyle. Biocentric Transhumanism, 1999.

Steven Johnson. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities,
and Software, 2002.

Steven Johnson. Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate, 1997.

Kevin Kelly. Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World

James Hughes. Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science: An NSF/DOC-sponsored report

Chislenko, A. Networking in the Mind Age, 1996.

Gargett, A. Cyberflesh (Dis)Orders: Prostheses of the Organized Body, 2002.

President's Council on Bioethics Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness, 2003.