Transvision 2010 - The Transhumanist Conference and Community Convention will be held 22-24 October, 2010, at the Hotel Dei Cavalieri in Milan, Italy
TransVision 2010 is a global transhumanist conference and community convention, organized by Giulio Prisco with the collaboration of the Italian Transhumanist Association (AIT) and an Advisory Board. The event will take place on October 22, 23 and 24, 2010 in Milan, Italy with many options for remote online access.
Giulio Prisco is a well-known European transhumanist and an active and prolific member of the Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds (ASIM) community. Giulio has been instrumental in the organization of many carboncopies events.
As per Giulio's announcement on the Transvision 2010 web site:
"TransVision 2010 will be a very intense, informative, scientific as well as entertaining tour de force in contemporary transhumanist thinking, activism, science, technology & innovation and grand visionary dreams, with over 40 talks distributed over three days. Join us to explore the scientific, technological, cultural, artistic and social trends which could change our world beyond recognition and may result in a singularity in only a few decades.
The first day will be mainly dedicated to the philosophical, cultural and social aspects of transhumanism. We will also explore new forms of artistic expressions and design inspired by transhumanist thinking.
The second day will be mainly dedicated to technology: we will cover life extension, biotechnology and genetic engineering, cryonics and brain preservation, whole brain emulation and mind uploading, synthetic biology, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, converging technologies and the technological singularity, and other transhumanist technologies, either already emerging from the research labs and almost ready for operational deployment, or still in a conceptual development phase.
The third day will be dedicated to the big picture, the wonderful cosmic adventures in which the human race is about to embark, leaving our little blue planet and spreading to the stars and beyond together with our AI mind children. We will also cover the metaphysical, spiritual, and even religious impact of transhumanist cosmic visions."
Full program details are available at http://transvision2010.wordpress.com/program/
Transvision 2010 Schedule:
Friday, October 22:
3pm-4.30pm
Introduction: Riccardo Campa, Giulio Prisco, Stefano Vaj
Khannea Suntzu and Simon Deering – The long history of the terasem l4 space colony
Francesco Verso – How Transhumanism entered my novels and changed my life
5pm-7pm
Graziano Cecchini – Action, speed, technology, creativity, communication
Roberto Guerra – Toward Scientific Futurism
Antonio Saccoccio – The new artists in the age of electronic media
Vitaliano Teti – VideoArt&Dance
Satuday, October 23:
9am-11am
Aubrey De Grey – SENS and SENS Foundation: recent progress
Max More – The Expanded Self: The Past, Present, and Future of Being You
Martine Rothblatt – Brains are to Minds as Birds are to Flight
11.30am-1.30pm
Giuseppe Vatinno – Transhumanism -A new philosophy for the XXI century’s Man
David Orban – Free to Be Human: the Coming Machine Revolution and Our New Role in the World
Giulio Prisco
Emanuele Ratti – Why Transhumanism must be Nietzschean
3pm-4.30pm
David Styles – A new development in cryonics standby, stabilisation, and transport capabilities in Europe
Mike Treder – Are we in the future yet?
Domenico Dodaro – Strong AI
5pm-7.30pm
Eugen Leitl - CRYONICS: Understanding Why It Failed
Robert Geraci – The Mythic Power of Transhumanism
Ben Goertzel
Lincoln Cannon
Natasha Vita-More
Suzanne Gildert – Thinking about the hardware of thinking: Can disruptive technologies help us achieve uploading?
8pm conference dinner
Sunday, October 24:
9am-11am
Pier Luigi Capucci
Roberto Marchesini
Marta Rossi and Jacopo Tagliabue – The law in the time of Singularity
Miriam Ji Sun – Technology, Tranhumanism, Tidiness and Transgression
11.30am-1.30pm
David Pearce – Fostering Post-Darwinian Life – The case for paradise-engineering
Dan Massey – A new way of living
Anders Sandberg – Thermodynamics of advanced civilizations: living in a unsustainable universe
Remi Sussan – Hacking religion
3pm-5pm
Francesco Monico – Extra Gender Perspective: Beyond Humankind Cultural Narcissism, a draft proposal
Randal A. Koene – I am a 25 Watt bio-computer. What are the hacks that make us who we are?
Fiorella Terenzi – Principia Universali: Unchangeable and immutable laws of our Universe
Closing address
Transvision 2010 pages: http://transvision2010.wordpress.com/