Keep up to date on what is happening for the next H+ Summit in Melbourne. http://2012.humanityplus.org.au
The Humanity+ @ Melbourne conference is a collaboration between Humanity+, a nonprofit organization with chapters around the world.
Previous Humanity+ conferences have occurred in a variety of locations including Europe, South America, Hong Kong, and major US universities like Harvard and Caltech. This is the second Humanity+ conference to take place in Melbourne Australia.
Aubrey de Grey is coming to Town
Aubrey de Grey
Aubrey de Grey has seen much attention about his theories on robust rejuvenation.
Here is an article in the Age in 2005:
“With the right engineering and maintenance, humans can live until they are 1000, says Aubrey de Grey. John Elder investigates.
AUBREY DE GREY looks like a scrawny Ned Kelly, with his beer-catching beard and red-rimmed eyes, a thriving survivor of the long past. His name suggests someone born a long time ago. Maybe it’s a name that will come back in vogue hundreds of years hence?
Dr Aubrey de Grey — despite his love of ale and junk food — hopes to be there, walking around in that far-away future. De Grey says he knows what is required to cure ageing.”
December 3-4, Humanity+ @ Hong Kong at Polytechnic University. The historic first-ever transhumanist conference in Asia, will be at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Check out the amazing speaker list on the preliminary conference website http://hk.humanityplus.org/The first Humanity+ conference held in Asia will take place in Hong Kong, on the 3rd-4th of December 2011 at the Chiang Chen Studio Theatre located on campus in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Tickets will be on sale soon through our online ticketing section or through Hong Kong Polytechnic University.Revolving around the theme “Living Forever”, the conference will explore recent science and engineering breakthroughs that seem to be leading toward biological, physiological or cybernetic means of living forever. This includes work on life extension biology and cyber-immortality, but also work on supporting disciplines like artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, brain-computer interfacing and quantum computing, that will help us build the technologies needed to dramatically extend human life.For a noted inventor and futurist’s perspective on the synergies between these unfolding sciences and technologies — and the viability of radical human life extension in the relatively near future — see Ray Kurzweil’s recent book The Singularity Is Near.We will complement these scientific topics with consideration of non-scientific approaches exploring the mind and the non-dualistic sense of eternal life — in the spirit of Buddhist philosophy, and Wittgenstein’s view that “If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
Humanity+ @ Hong Kong will consist of a series of talks and panel discussions featuring live international and local speakers. Leading Western futurist visionaries will present alongside some of the most exciting researchers, engineers and thinkers active in Hong Kong and China today. The goal is to spark discussion and spread ideas and knowledge with the purpose of inspiring action and providing networking opportunities to benefit society..
Session 4: Transformative Technologies. Advanced science and engineering being carried out in university and corporate labs today, pointing in directions with the eventual possibility of radically transforming life as we know it. Nanotech, synthetic biology, quantum computing, and more.
We will be watching the feed of the ‘Rise of the Citizen-Scientist’ conference – The conference in america will be held on June 12-13, at Harvard University. and we are looking at hosting an event in Melbourne to co-incide with it.
About: The H+ Summit @ Harvard is an educational, and scientific outreach event, that covers the themes of the impact of technology on the human condition. It is hosted, and organized by the Harvard College Future Society, in cooperation with Humanity+.
Speakers include Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Wolfram, Aubrey De Gray and many more.
