Alerted by New World Notes, I attended the lecture by Kevin Warwick on Uvvy Island this afternoon, antitled “Upgrading Humans, Why Not?”, where he presented his experiences as a cyborg. At the Q&A sessions I asked him two questions, which he was kind enough to answer. “The UK has shown to be able and find [...]
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Transcript of my lecture in Second Life on the Democracy in Virtual Worlds
February 11th, 2007
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Here is the transcript of my inaugural lecture of the Craedo Auditorium in Colonia Nova in Second Life: Welcome to this seminar about “The theory and practice of democracy in virtual worlds”. I want to thank CARE, CRAEDO, and the Confederation of Democratic Simulators for inviting me to give this talk at the inauguration of [...]
Badly applied gene science, or just bad article?
January 3rd, 2007
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Forbes writes that a pharmaceutical company, Hematech, produced genetically engineered cows that lack the proteins producing the prions causing the so called Mad Cow disease. My first reaction to the headline was “Great, so now unscrupolous farmers now can go back to their habit of making cannibals out of cows.” But luckily it doesn’t seem [...]
