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.
Peter Ellyard will be speaking at the Singualrity Summit 2010.
Peter Ellyard (born 1937) is an Australian futurist, strategist, speaker and author. Ellyard is best known for his book, Ideas for the New Millennium. Continue reading »
He is currently Chairman of the Preferred Futures institute and the Preferred Futures Group, which he founded in 1991. He also chairs the Sustainable Prosperity Foundation and two start up environmental companies.
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.
