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Artificial Intelligence

Immortality

Nanotechnology

Prescient Thinkers

Robotics

The Singularity

Transhumanist Fiction

Transhumanist Non-Fiction

 

 

 

 

Artificial Intelligence:

Artificial Minds

by Stan Franklin

 

The Society of Mind

by Marvin Minsky

 

Darwin Among the Machines:

The Evolution of Global Intelligence

by George Dyson

 

The Essence of Artificial Intelligence

by Alison Cawsey

 

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

by Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig

 

Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies:

Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

by Douglas Hofstadter

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

MIT's AI Laboratory Website

AI Depot

 

 

 

 

Immortality:

The Last Mortal Generation

by Damien Broderick

 

The Physics of Immortality

by Frank Tipler

 

Prospect of Immortality

by Robert Ettinger

 

Forever for All

by Mike Perry

 

Immortality

by Ben Bova

 

Immortality Instiute

Human Longevity

The Alcor Foundation

Life Extension Foundation

The Aging Research Centre

Unraveling the Secrets of Human Longevity

 

 

 

Nanotechnology:

Unbounding the Future

by Eric Drexler and Chris Peterson

 

Engines of Creation

by Eric Drexler

 

Nanotechnology

edited by B.C. Crandall

 

Nanomedicine

by Robert Freitas

Nanotechnology Now

The Foresight Institute

Institute for Molecular Manufacturing

National Nanotechnology Initiative (U.S.)

☆ ☆ Center for Responsible Nanotechnology ☆ ☆

 

 

 

 

Prescient Thinkers:

(Dates indicate years of their most significant work)

 1932-1957     John Von Neumann

 1936-1950     Alan Turing

 1940-1985     Richard Feynman

 1951-1993     Arthur C. Clarke

 1951-NOW     Marvin Minsky

 1966-2000     FM-2030 (F.M. Esfandiary)

 1971-1996     Carl Sagan

 1976-NOW     Ray Kurzweil

 1980-NOW     Hans Moravec

 1980-NOW     Robert Freitas Jr.

 1981-NOW     Eric Drexler

 1984-NOW     Vernor Vinge

 1986-NOW     Max More

 1996-NOW     Eliezer Yudkowsky

 1998-NOW     Nick Bostrom

 

 

 

 

Robotics:

Mind Children:

The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence

by Hans Moravec

 

Robot:

Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind

by Hans Moravec

 

Flesh and Machines:

How Robots Will Change Us

by Rodney Allen Brooks

Modular Robotics (PARC/Xerox)

Netsurfer Robotics

JPL Robotics

RobotsLife

Robots

 

 

 

  

The Singularity:

The Spike

by Damien Broderick

Singularity Watch

Singularitarian FAQ

Singularity Institute

Singularity Fun Theory

 

 

 

 

Transhumanist Fiction:

Books by Isaac Asimov    ●    Asimov Fan Site

Books by Stephen Baxter   ●    Baxter Fan Site

Books by Greg Bear   ●    Bear's Homepage

Books by Greg Egan   ●    Egan's Homepage

Books by William Gibson   ●    Gibson Fan Site

Books by Kathleen Ann Goonan   ●    Goonan's Homepage

Books by Larry Niven   ●    Niven Fan Site

Books by Bruce Sterling   ●    Sterling Info Page

Books by John Varley   ●    Varley Fan Site

Books by H. G. Wells   ●    Wells Society Site

Not of Woman Born (short story anthology)

edited by Constance Ash

 

 

 

 

Transhumanist Non-Fiction:

Cosmic Evolution:

The Rise of Complexity in Nature

by Eric Chaisson

 

Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be:

The Augmented Animal and the Whole Wired World

by Walter Truett Anderson

 

Viroid Life:

Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition

by Keith Ansell-Pearson

 

The Age of Spiritual Machines:

When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

by Ray Kurzweil

 

Beyond Humanity:

Cyberevolution and Future Minds

by Gregory Paul and Earl Cox

 

Disturbing the Universe

by Freeman Dyson

 

Catalog of Tomorrow

edited by Andrew Zolli

 

Godel, Escher, Bach:

An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas Hofstadter

 

The Mind's I

by Douglas Hofstadter, et al

 

 

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