Horror fiction has its roots in folklore and religious traditions, focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic and the principle of the thing embodied in the person. These were manifested in s ...
Technological utopianism from the 19th to mid-20th centuries Karl Marx believed that science and democracy were the right and left hands of what he called the move from the realm of necessity to the r ...
The word utopia was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The word comes from the Greek: ο? ("not") and τ?πο? ...
As a consequence of its philosophical foundations, transhumanist art emphasizes the message of the art works over the mediums used by artists in producing their works. In this regard, transhumanist ar ...
Notable Transhumanist Authors Dan SimmonsDan BrownAlastair ReynoldsIain M. BanksStephen BaxterGreg BearMarshall BrainJohn C. WrightDavid BrinGregory BenfordArthur C. ClarkePhilip K. DickCory DoctorowJ ...
In the book The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), Welsh journalist Jon Ronson documented how the U.S. military repeatedly tried and failed to train soldiers in the use of parascientific combat techniques ...
The United States Congress created the War Department in 1789 and the Navy Department in 1798. The secretaries of each of these departments reported directly to the President as cabinet-level advisors ...
Each chapter is sorted into three sections: Near future (2000-2030), Midcentury (2030-2070), and Far future (2070-2100). Kaku notes that the time periods are only rough approximations, but show the ge ...
Kurzweil characterizes evolution throughout all time as progressing through six epochs, each one building on the next. He says the four epochs which have occurred so far are Physics and Chemistry, Bio ...
Many contemporary states have a constitution, a bill of rights, or similar constitutional documents that enumerate and seek to guarantee civil liberties. Other states have enacted similar laws through ...
Proclamation of Teheran In 1945, the United Nations Charter included the obligation "to promote... universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without discr ...
ccording to technocritic Dale Carrico, the politics of morphological freedom imply a commitment to the value, standing, and social legibility of the widest possible variety of desired morphologies and ...
The term “cognitive liberty” was coined by neuroethicist Dr Wrye Sententia and legal theorist and lawyer Richard Glen Boire, the founders and directors of the non-profit Center for Cognitive Liberty ...
There have been verified and well-documented cases of humans having physical abilities that seem superhuman, for example:Wim Hof is nearly impervious to extreme temperatures. In 2009 he ran a marathon ...
Traditionally, long-term whole brain preservation has been conducted by vascular perfusion of a person with cryoprotective agents and long-term storage at close to liquid nitrogen temperature. Chemica ...
