@H+ :: Anarcho-Transhumanism

* What will the future hold for the first-borns of 2007?

The generation born now will be the ones to either fix the world or destroy it.

* Why Chicks Don’t Dig the Singularity

I think male geeks in the futurist community assume that human nature is the same as the nature of male geeks in the futurist community.

* Military Builds Robotic Insects

“Big dangers can ensue from terrorists,” Altmann says. “For instance, using MAVs [Micro Air Vehicles] with small explosive charges to assassinate high-level politicians or to transport biological/chemical agents into protected infrastructure.”

* The Marxist Reading Group is taking papers for a conference on “Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing) Horizons.”

… capitalism asserts a monopoly on futurity, both as a semantic category and a material horizon. While globalization ideologues insist that history has ended and trumpet the present as the future … Marxism proposes a radically different narrative. The Ninth Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group investigates the future from a Marxist perspective and challenges Marxist scholars and activists to reclaim the category of futurity.