Contents
The 9 Things to Look Forward To in 2030
1. Learning a second language is no longer necessary
2. Only two per cent of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty
3. The best food grows in skyscrapers
4. Driverless cars have reached mainstream consumers
5. Eight cities have more than 30 million inhabitants
6. Unmanned flying drones transport humans through the air
7. Commercial space travel is common and affordable
8. Many people have robot lovers
9. Thousands of humans have a life expectancy of 150 years
Bonus chapters
5 Futurists on the single most significant technological development in the next 20 years
8 Ways in Which the Human Condition is Improving
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MEGA LIST OF FUTURE LINKS
[Via hedweb.com]
- Accelerating Studies Foundation
- Alexander Chislenko
- Alexander Kruel
- Alexei Turchin
- Anders Sandberg
- Accelerating Future
- Amara’s Digital web
- Anarcho-Transhumanism
- AGI-World
- AI Panic
- Associazione Italiana Transumanisti
- Ben Goertzel
- Best Before Yesterday
- Bill Hibbard
- Better Humans
- BLTC Research
- BrainStimulant
- Broader Perspective
- Causality Relay
- Center For Responsible Nanotechnology
- Changesurfer Radio
- Czech Transhumanist Association
- Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute
- Cosma Shalizi
- Cosmist Manifesto
- Cryonics Institute
- David Brin
- David Orban
- DW2
- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
- Embrace Unity
- Eric Drexler
- Estropico
- ExtroBritannica
- Facebook Transhumanism
- Finnish Transhumanist Association
- Frank Tipler
- The Future and You
- Future of Humanity Institute
- Future Hi
- Futurismic
- Gaverick Matheny
- Genescient
- George Overmeire
- German Transhumanist Association
- Google Transhumanist Directory
- Greg Egan
- H+ Magazine
- Hans Moravec
- Harvey Newstrom
- Henry Stanley
- Hugo De Garis
- Human Future Gateway
- Hplus Community
- Hungarian Transhumamist Association
- Ideas of an Aspergian Transhumanist
- Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
- Immortality Institute
- Incipient Posthuman
- InnerSpace Foundation
- Institute for Accelerating Change
- Jeff Albright
- José Luis Cordeiro
- João Pedro de Magalhães
- KurzweilAI.net
- Less Wrong
- Lifeboat Foundation
- Life Extension Foundation
- Longevity Meme
- Machine Phase
- Machines Like Us
- Människa Plus
- Marginal Revolution
- Mark Walker
- Marvin Minsky
- Masterminds of Contemporary Transhumanism
- Max More
- Max Tegmark
- Metabiological
- Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
- MetaModern
- Methuselah Foundation
- Michio Kaku
- Milan M. Cirkovic
- Miron Cuperman
- More Than Human
- Mormon Transhumanist Association
- Nanofactory Collaboration
- Natasha Vita-More
- NeoSapiens
- Nested Universe
- Network dei Transumanisti Italiani
- Neuro Revolution
- New Harvest
- New York Transhumanist Association
- Next Big Future
- Nick Bostrom
- Open Science blog
- Open The Future
- Order of Cosmic Engineers
- Overcoming Bias
- Pablo Stafforini
- Paul Almond
- Philippe Van Nedervelde
- Portuguese Transhumanist Association
- PJ Manney
- Ploughshares Fund
- Queering the Singularity
- Rational Futurist
- Re-Public
- Riccardo Campa
- Richard Leis
- Robert Freitas
- Roko Mijic
- RU Sirius
- Russian Transhumanist Association
- Russell Blackford
- Seattle Transhumanists
- Self-Aware Systems
- Sentient Developments
- Shtetl-Optimized
- The Singularity
- Singularity Institute
- Slovenian Transhumanist Association
- Society for Universal Immortalism
- Soft Machines
- Stanford Transhumanist Association
- SteveCobb.com
- TED Talks
- Terasem Movement, Inc
- Theoretical Transhumanism
- Thoughtware.tv
- TimTyler.org
- Transhumanity
- Trans-Spirit
- Transhuman Goodness
- Transhuman World Culture InfoMark
- Transhumanar
- Transhumanism
- Transhumanist Network
- Transhumanist Student Network
- Transhumanist Wiki
- UK Transhumanist Association
- Utilitarian Essays
- Vancouver Transhumanism
- Vetta Project
- What is the Good of Transhumanism?(pdf)
- Willian Bainbridge
- World Future Society
- World Transhumanist Association (WTA/H+)
- WTA FAQ
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(Michael Anissimov)
(Amara Graps)
(Robin Green)
(Bruce Klein)
(Robin Baumgarten)
(Michael Wheeler)
(Melanie Swan)
(James Hughes)
(Ben Goertzel)
(David Wood)
(Edward Miller)
(podcasts)
(Paul Schroeer-Hannemann)
(Ray Kurzweil)
(Günter Bachelier)
(Russell Blackford)
(Eric Drexler)
(Aubrey de Grey)
(Ramez Naam)
(Chris Haley)
(David De Biasi)
(Zack Lynch)
(Brian Wang)
(Joseph Jackson)
(Jamais Cascio)
(Tom McCabe)
(Steve Omohundro)
(George Dvorsky)
(Scott Aaronson)
(Vernor Vinge)
(Richard Jones)
(Kyle Munkittrick)
(Mike LaTorra)
(Roko Mijic)
(Giulio Prisco)
(Wikipedia)
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