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TransVision Thursday Keynote Presentation (Ray Kurzweil) Notes

TransVision Thursday Keynote Presentation (William Shatner) Notes

TransVision Thursday Afternoon Session II Notes

Even more disturbing is how some of the most important ideas and thinkers of our time are largely being ignored by the general public. Watching Aubrey de Grey explain to a small audience how he’s going to conquer death created no small amount of cognitive dissonance in my brain; the room should have been packed. Hell, the room should have had people lined-up out front pounding at the door demanding to be let in.

A good option at this point might be to employ a full-time speaker to travel the college circuit. Young, educated minds are the most amenable to the transhumanist cause. This could involve lectures or debates with other people about the merits of transhumanist technologies. It's useful to have someone with charisma.

TransVision just needs to get over its schizophrenia and choose a modus operandi.

Rothblatt specifically cited the work of information scientist William Sims Bainbridge on personality capture. To enable the creation of mindfiles, Rothblatt's Terasem Foundation has created the websites, Cyberev.org and Lifenaut.com.