“Just as Copernicus’s heliocentric notion of universe is now bedrock truth, the Neuro Revolution will bring about new ideas of human spirituality that will forever reshape our understanding of humanity’s role and place the universe. A quiet transformation has begun, albeit one that may take centuries to play …

Brave New Brain:
How Neuroscience, Brain-Machine Interfaces, Neuroimaging, Psychopharmacology, Epigenetics, the Internet, and Our Own Minds are Stimulating and Enhancing the Future of Mental Power

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2008 State of the Future paperback with CD-ROM.
CD contains about 6,300 pages of research behind this print edition.
Includes Millennium Project’s 12 years of study and analysis.
Additional new updates and improvements.

This To-do Lists For Futurists and the Pros and Cons of Internet Brain Implants, both courtesy of io9, are simply worth archiving if for no other reason than Citizen Cyborg ranks #2 on the list. Onward …

While the New York Times rightly points out that Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike, it seems to me that if others can’t interpret the meaning of the tracks we leave behind, then we’re not being effective explorer-helper ants. In sharing our glimpses, we don’t have to make decisions for the …

The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls “a map of my brain.”
[T]he idea of making a library was fed by my experience that college and university libraries’ closed stacks inhibit browsing and the process of …

We, my associates and myself, are in a line of business that surpasses all rational understanding. I’m not at liberty to make disclosures at this time, but we consider matters at present to be ominous but not however hopeless. Despair is not indicated — not by any means (Dick 1969, …

SCI FI Wire reports that veteran author Benjamin Rosenbaum has beat this would-be rookie to the punch. Congratulations, Ben. For my own sake (and others, I suspect), we can only hope that you’ve further opened a GENRE rather than zero-summed us out of contention for the posthuman prognostication market. Note …

NPR: Ultimately, at the heart of the novel … is the idea that the nature of our minds are somehow changed by the gadgets which we are increasingly using to communicate.
Richtel: You start with the premise that, as human beings, we evolve to fit our environment … as the jungle …