
Senolytic drugs are hoped to slow down and reverse age-related diseases by killing senescent cells. Zombie cells and their creepy behavior. Businesses and scientists are aiming to create life extension pills within a few years.
Jan 13, 2022
15 min

About a method of life extension which really works. Benefits, challenges, and the supporting science. The medicalization of a cultural problem.
Jan 6, 2022
14 min

Apocalyptic fears and new utopian aspirations before the backdrop of digitalization, globalization, and urbanization. How environmentalism and transhumanism deliver opposed versions of a posthumanist worldview, and how they determine our political and social future.
Dec 30, 2021
18 min

Mythologies, symbolism, and gruesome practices involving young blood for rejuvenation. Surprisingly the practice works, but seems ethically unacceptable. The hunt for anti-aging therapies based on blood components.
Dec 23, 2021
15 min

A debate about the nature of reality. The Matrix. Significance of the simulation hypothesis for transhumanism.
Dec 16, 2021
10 min

About the most promising drug against aging. Also about regulatory constraints and how they are being bypassed.
Dec 9, 2021
12 min

The business drivers of BCI technology. How mind control will enter consumer electronics. A discussion of personal identity and ethical concerns, and how we will need to redefine what means to be human.
Dec 2, 2021
11 min

How BCI technology will change our life in the near future. Applications, the underlying science, and technical processes.
Nov 25, 2021
12 min

The different meanings of cryonics as cultural practice: as post-humanist death ritual and expression of faith, as speculative investment and as a business proposition to consumers.
Nov 18, 2021
9 min

An introduction to the science and technological practice of cryonics. Futurist cryonics, mainstream cryopreservation, and an example of shifting ethical judgements.
Nov 11, 2021
11 min
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