What’s due: Memo 2: 100 year history timeline of the topic, annotated, with references – 3 pages minimum
Participatory challenge: Bring me up to date on transhumanist-tending technologies that are of cutting edge interest to you.
Click to show required readingsRequired readings:
Stutz, Bruce, “Battered New York City Looks For Ways to Hold Back the Sea”, Yale Environment 360 http://e360.yale.edu/feature/ battered_new_york_city_looks_for_ways_to_hold_back_the_sea/2589/
Muehlhauser, Luke, and Anna Salamon. “Intelligence explosion: Evidence and import.” The Singularity Hypothesis. Springer (2012). [Zotero]
New York City Solid Waste Management Plan 2006. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/downloads/pdf/swmp/swmp/swmpweb.pdf
Nicolelis, Miguel L. “Coming Soon: Artificial Limbs Controlled by Thoughts” Scientific American, Wednesday, August 29, 2012. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=artificial-limbs-controlled-by-thought&print=true
Dewdney, Christopher. “Ch. 3: Television,” in Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era. Harper, 1998. 40-47. Dewdney, Christopher. “Ch. 8: Artificial Intelligence,” in Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era. Harper, 1998. 113-119. e-reserves
Dewdney, Christopher. “Ch. 13: Jumping Ship: The Posthuman Era,” in Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era. Harper, 1998. 168-185. e-reserves
