Best of H+ Magazine, Vol.1: 2008-2010 - Softcover

Best of H+ Magazine, Vol. 1 is edited by counterculture legend R.U. Sirius, and brought to you by futurist organization Humanity+. It is our great privilege to live in an era when H+ - the extension of humanity beyond its traditional biological form - is not merely fantasy but a reasonable description of the practical, everyday unfolding of science and technology. H+ Magazine has provided a venue for edgy, creative thinking about H+ technologies and ideas since it was founded in 2008. This volume collects some of the best H+ Magazine articles from the magazine's first few years, when it was edited by legendary futurist R.U. Sirius.

Table of Contents

• Preface by Ben Goertzel
• Preface by R.U. Sirius
• The Rise of the Citizen Scientist
• Why DIY Bio?
• Re-Engineering the Human Immune System
• Self Tracking: The Quantified Life is Worth Living
• From Hackerspace to Your Garage
• Scrapheap Transhumanism DIY RFID
• Radically Enhanced Human Body
• Our Machines/Ourselves: AI/Bots/The Singularity
• Ray Kurzweil: The H+ Interview
• Brain on a Chip: A Roundup of Projects Working on Silicon Intelligence
• The Chinese Singularity
• Build an Optimal Scientist, Then Retire
• Here Come the Neurobots: Brain Bots are Developing Personalities - and a Whole Lot More
• Can "Terminators" Actually Be Our Salvation
• Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick
• Isn't It Time for Cinematic Sci-Fi Television?
• Let a Hundred Futures Bloom
• The Reluctant Transhumanist
• Was Michael Jackson a Transhumanist?
• Gene Genies: BIO
• Adventures in Synthetic Biology: Interview with Stanford's Drew Endy
• Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives
• One Atom at a Time: Nano
• How Close Are We to Real Nanotechnology?
• Targeting Cancer Cells with Nanoparticles
• Engineering an End to Aging
• Smart Biology to the Rescue
• I Am Ironman!: HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) Cybernetic Suit
• My New Sense Organ
• Sports Enhancement and Life Enhancement: Different Rules Apply
• Botox Parties, Michael Jackson, and the Disillusioned Transhumanist
• This is Your Brain on Neurotechnology
• Optogenetics: The Edge of Neural Control
• Cognitive Commodities in the Neuro Marketplace
• Will We Eventually Upload Our Minds?
• Transhumanism at Play
• Gamification: Turning Work Into Play
• The Perils of FDS Fun Deficiency Syndrome
• The Pursuit of Crappiness