Seattle Chapter
World Transhumanist Association
         for the ethical use of technology to extend human capacities
Photos by Ian Ruotsala, Seattle WTA

2007 Events
Transvision 2007 Transforming Humanity: Innerspace to Outerspace

2006 Events

May 13, 2006
Singularity Summit at Stanford

May 26-28, 2006
Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

See this site for a thorough report on the HETHR Conference.
Nydra's transhumanist take on the conference is well worth reading, and I've found her personal blog entries just as thought provoking and well written.

 Inside Links
Declaration
Transhumanist FAQ
Human Values in a Posthuman World?

Seattle Chapter News

S-WTA Forum

Chapter Chat


 Outside Links

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
-Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957)

Transhumanist Philosophy

KurzweilAI.net
http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html?flash=2

MIT CSAIL
http://www.ai.mit.edu/

Journal of Evolution and Technology
http://www.jetpress.org/

The New Atlantis
A Journal of Technology and Society
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/index.html

LEONARDO:
Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/index.html

FORESIGHT Institute
Preparing for Nanotechnology
http://www.foresight.org/

Nanomedicine Gallery
http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Gallery/index.html

Crucial Physical and Informational Technologies
http://e-drexler.com/

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Arising from the New Genetics
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.shtml

Promise and Peril of the 21st Century
by Ray Kurzweil
American Inventor, Author, Musician, Entrepreneur
http://www.cio.com/archive/092203/kurzweil.html

Nick Bostrom, PhD
British Academy Research Fellow, Oxford University
http://www.nickbostrom.com/

CHANGESURFER
James Hughes, PhD
http://www.changesurfer.com/

Asociación Tranhumanista
http://www.transhumanismo.org/

Be Very Afraid:
Cyborg Athletes, Transhuman Ideals & Posthumanity
By Andy Miah
Lecturer in Media, Bioethics, and Cyberculture
University of Paisley at Ayr, Scotland, UK.
http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/miah.html

"Exponential" Thinking for the Future
By Jack Uldrich
http://www.techcentralstation.com/012104D.html

Cyborg Liberation Front
Inside the Movement for Posthuman Rights
by Erik Baard
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0611.html

Extropy Institute
 "Extropy Institute is a non-profit, multidisciplinary research and educational organization."
http://www.extropy.org/

Betterhumans.com
"Connecting people to the future so that they can create it, we explore and advocate the use of science and technology for furthering human progress."
http://www.betterhumans.com/

Singularity Watch
Interpreting a world of accelerating change
http://www.singularitywatch.com/

Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/

Android World
"This site is devoted to androids. An android is an anthropomorphic robot - i.e. a robot that looks like a human. Many android developers call their creations 'humanoids' rather than androids. We also have robotics links, robot links, animatronics links, and research links."
http://www.androidworld.com/

Sentient Developments
http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/

POSTHUMAN.com
http://jbatkins.home.mindspring.com/www.posthuman.com/

The NanoAging Institute
http://www.nanoaging.com


 Transhumanist Bibliography

This is a comprehensive collection of non-technical texts and online resources.
http://www.transhumanism.org/resources/reading.htm