Biological evolution takes place over generations. But imagine if it could be expedited beyond the incremental change envisaged by Darwin to a matter of individual experience. Such things are dreamt ...

Move over Dungeons and Dragons, the Singularity has its own nerd-tastic role playing game to thrill geeks everywhere. Eclipse Phase is a table top pen and paper RPG based on the concept of ...

Human technology is an incredible phenomenon. It’s something that grows exponentially: for every advance we make, our next advances are more varied and easier to attain. Our inventions are all around ...

The gods of old are gone from this world, replaced by smartphones and touchscreens and social media. These are the new gods, the ones to which we bow down. Instead of putting trust in a higher reality ...

Maitreya One, a black futurist and hip-hop artist living in Harlem, steps off the Greyhound bus on a warm morning in Montgomery, Alabama. Wearing sunglasses and a backwards-facing baseball hat, he ...

The human experience has changed drastically since Homo sapiens first arose in Africa’s Great Rift Valley somewhere around 150,000 years ago. The addition of some Neanderthal DNA aside, humans have ...

For most of human history, the field of engineering has been seen as distinct from biological and neural science. Living tissue has a quality of its own, and cannot easily interact with an ...

“What is effected by Nominalism, as it is appropriated out of Occam’s intricate arguments, is an instrument of power over nature justified on the authority of autonomous intellect, whereby the ...

Last fall, the editors of a leading public policy magazine, Foreign Policy, asked eight prominent intellectuals to identify the single idea currently posing the greatest threat to humanity. Most of ...