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Transhumanist Politics
Transhumanist politics constitutes a group of political ideologies that generally express the belief in improving human individuals through science and technology. Specific topics include space migration, and cryogenic suspension. It is considered the opposing ideal to the concept of bioconservatism, as Transhumanist politics argue for the use of all technology to enhance human individuals. History The term "transhumanism" with its present meaning was popularised by Julian Huxley's 1957 essay of that name. Natasha Vita-More was elected as a Councilperson for the 28th Senatorial District of Los Angeles in 1992. She ran with the Green Party, but on a personal platform of "transhumanism". She quit after a year, saying her party was "too neurotically geared toward environmentalism". James Hughes identifies the "neoliberal" Extropy Institute, founded by philosopher Max More and developed in the 1990s, as the first organized advocates for transhumanism. And he identifies the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Political Ideologies
In political science, a political ideology is a certain set of Ethics, ethical Ideal (ethics), ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class or Social group, large group that explains how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order. A political ideology largely concerns itself with how to allocate Power (sociology), power and to what ends it should be used. Some political parties follow a certain ideology very closely while others may take broad inspiration from a group of related ideologies without specifically embracing any one of them. An ideology's popularity is partly due to the influence of moral entrepreneurs, who sometimes act in their own interests. Political ideologies have two dimensions: (1) goals: how society should be organized; and (2) methods: the most appropriate way to achieve this goal. An ideology is a collection of ideas. Typically, each ideology contains certai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Itskov
Dmitry Itskov (Russian: Дмитрий Ицков; born 1980) is a Russian entrepreneur, billionaire and the founder of ''New Media Stars'', a web-based media company, and 2045 Initiative. He has made a reported £1bn from his Moscow-based news publishing company. Biography He was born in Bryansk. He graduated from Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics. Together with State Duma deputy Konstantin Rykov, he was involved in large-scale PR campaigns for United Russia. Career In 2005 he created New Media Stars in Moscow. In 2011 he set up 2045 Initiative, which aims to achieve cybernetic immortality by 2045. In 2012 Itskov sent an open letter to the richest people in the world from the Forbes list with a request to join forces in the development of technologies that will prolong human life and make it immortal. In May 2012 he and his colleagues demonstrated a humanoid robot (his own replica) at the initial stage of development. On June 15 and 16, 2013 the Global Future 2045 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Existenz (journal)
''Existenz'' is an on-line biannual academic journal covering research in philosophy, religion, politics, and the arts. Established in 2006 by its founding editors Alan M. Olson and Helmut Wautischer and is sponsored by the Karl Jaspers Society of North America. Its title, ''Existenz'', derives from an essential feature of the philosophy of Karl Jaspers, namely, the notion of '' mögliche Existenz'' or "possible self-being" for which Jaspers became famous as one of the world's leading existentialist philosophers in the 20th century. The journal serves as a publication outlet for Jaspers scholarship, cooperates with various international Jaspers societies, including those in the United States, Japan, Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Croatia, and also considers direct submissions of articles for online publication. ''Existenz'' is indexed by The Philosopher's Index and included in the EBSCO database. See also *List of philosophy journals This is a list of academic journals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Class
A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of Dominance hierarchy, hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class and the Bourgeoisie, capitalist class. Membership of a social class can for example be dependent on education, wealth, occupation, income, and belonging to a particular subculture or social network. Class is a subject of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and Social history, social historians. The term has a wide range of sometimes conflicting meanings, and there is no broad consensus on a definition of class. Some people argue that due to social mobility, class boundaries do not exist. In common parlance, the term social class is usually synonymous with Socioeconomic status, socioeconomic class, defined as "people having the same social, economic, cultural, political or educational status", e.g. the working class, "an emerging professional class" etc. However, academics distinguish socia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Equality
Social equality is a state of affairs in which all individuals within society have equal rights, liberties, and status, possibly including civil rights, freedom of expression, autonomy, and equal access to certain public goods and social services. Social equality requires the absence of legally enforced social class or caste boundaries, along with an absence of discrimination motivated by an inalienable part of an individual's identity. Advocates of social equality believe in equality before the law for all individuals regardless of many aspects. These aspects include but are not limited to, sex, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, origin, caste or class, income or property, language, religion, convictions, opinions, health, disability,trade union membership, political views, parental status, mores, family or marital status, and any other grounds. These are some different types of social equality: * '' Formal equality'': equal opportunity for individuals based on merit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Enhancement
Human enhancement is the natural, artificial, or technological alteration of the human body in order to enhance physical or mental capabilities. Technologies Existing technologies Three forms of human enhancement currently exist: reproductive, physical, and mental. Reproductive enhancements include embryo selection by preimplantation genetic diagnosis, cytoplasmictransfer, and in vitro-generated gametes. Physical enhancements include cosmetics ( plastic surgery and orthodontics), Drug-induced (doping and performance-enhancing drugs), functional (prosthetics and powered exoskeletons), Medical ( implants (e.g. pacemaker) and organ replacements (e.g. bionic lenses)), and strength training (weights (e.g. barbells) and dietary supplement)). Examples of mental enhancements are nootropics, neurostimulation, and supplements that improve mental functions. Computers, mobile phones, and Internet can also be used to enhance cognitive efficiency. Notable efforts in human augmentation are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Techno-libertarianism
Technolibertarianism, sometimes referred to as cyberlibertarianism, is a political ideology with roots in the Internet's early hacker cypherpunk culture in Silicon Valley in the early 1990s and in American libertarianism. The ideology focuses on minimizing government regulation, censorship, or anything else in the way of a "free" World Wide Web. In this case, the word "free" is referring to the meaning of ''libre'' (no restrictions), not ''gratis'' (no cost). Cyber-libertarians embrace fluid, meritocratic hierarchies, which are believed to be best served by markets. The most widely known cyberlibertarian is Julian Assange. The term technolibertarian was popularized in critical discourse by technology writer Paulina Borsook. Notable proponents * Julian Assange * John Perry Barlow * John Gilmore * T. J. Rodgers * Andrew Yang * Elon Musk See also * Censorship of Wikipedia * Crypto-anarchism * Free-culture movement * Freedom of information * Freedom of speech * Information wants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Techno-progressivism
Techno-progressivism, or tech-progressivism, is a stance of active support for the wikt:convergence, convergence of technological change and social change. Techno-progressives argue that technological developments can be profoundly empowerment, empowering and freedom (political), emancipatory when they are regulated by legitimate democracy, democratic and accountable authorities to ensure that their social cost, costs, risks and cost-benefit analysis, benefits are all fairly shared by the actual stakeholder (corporate), stakeholders to those developments. One of the first mentions of techno-progressivism appeared within extropian jargon in 1999 as the removal of "all political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to self-actualization and self-realization". Stance Techno-progressivism maintains that accounts of Progress (history), progress should focus on Scientific consensus, scientific and Technological change, technical dimensions, as well as ethics of technology, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 720 members (MEPs), after the June 2024 European elections, from a previous 705 MEPs. It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India), with an electorate of around 375 million eligible voters in 2024. Since 1979, the Parliament has been directly elected every five years by the citizens of the European Union through universal suffrage. Voter turnout in parliamentary elections decreased each time after 1979 until 2019, when voter turnout increased by eight percentage points, and rose above 50% for the first time since 1994. The voting age is 18 in all EU member states e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennady Stolyarov II
Gennady Stolyarov II (born 1987) is an American libertarian and transhumanist writer, actuary, and civil servant known for his book ''Death is Wrong''. Stolyarov also lead the U.S. Transhumanist Party. ''Death is Wrong'' and other publications In his 2013 children's book, ''Death is Wrong'', Stolyarov argues that death is an enemy and encourages readers to help overcome it using technology. Stolyarov believes the first necessary step in accomplishing immortality (unlimited lifespans) is to believe that it is possible and dying is not required, and therefore teaching this idea to our children is important. Stolyarov has written many articles on transhumanism and other topics on ''https://www.rationalargumentator.com'' and ''https://transhumanist-party.org''. In their 2017 book ''Juvenescence: Investing in the Age of Longevity'', entrepreneurs and investors Jim Mellon and Al Chalabi wrote, “Longevists such as Gennady Stolyarov have also been prominent in recent years. Stolya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transhumanist Party
The Transhumanist Party is a political party in the United States. The party's platform is based on the ideas and principles of transhumanist politics, e.g., human enhancement, human rights, science, life extension, and technological progress. History The Transhumanist Party was founded in 2014 by Zoltan Istvan. Istvan became the first political candidate to run for office under the banner of the Transhumanist Party when he announced his candidacy for President of the United States in the United States presidential election of 2016; he did not have ballot access in any state and received 95 write-in votes from two states. As part of his campaign Zoltan and a cadre of transhumanist activists and embedded journalists embarked on a four-month journey in the coffin-shaped Immortality Bus, which traveled on a winding cross-country route from San Francisco to Washington D.C. The Transhumanist Party has been featured or mentioned in many major media sites, including the ''National R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 United States Presidential Election
United States presidential election, Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2016. The Republican Party (United States), Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor, Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic ticket of former United States Secretary of State, secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Virginia junior senator Tim Kaine, in what was considered one of the biggest political Upset (competition), upsets in American history. It was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the List of United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote, winning candidate lost the popular vote. Incumbent Democratic president Barack Obama was ineligible to pursue a third term due to the term limits established by the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Clinton secured the nomination over U.S. senator Bernie Sanders in 2016 Democratic Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
