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Showing posts with label topic: life extension. Show all posts
Showing posts with label topic: life extension. Show all posts
17 May 2024

Technologies of Immortality: Course Assignments and Critical Texts

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With this post, I wanted to talk a bit more about my immortality-focused team-taught Honors course . Specifically, I want to talk about two ...
10 May 2024

Technologies of Immortality: Reading List

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This is a sequel to last week's post ; I wanted to provide my reading list (with commentary) for my co-taught "Technologies of Immo...
03 May 2024

Technologies of Immortality: Team Teaching

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I've mentioned it a few times around here, but this semester I've been team-teaching an Honors course. Our Honors program made some ...
29 March 2024

Science Fiction and the Hermit Crab

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In my immortality Honors class (which is probably due a post of its own, but at this point, I'll just wait until the semester is over), ...
25 September 2023

Chiller by Sterling Blake

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Chiller : A Scientific Suspense Novel by Gregory Benford I read this as part of my ongoing investigation into science fiction about life ex...
03 October 2022

Lifespan by David Sinclair

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Lifespan : Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To by David A. Sinclair, with Matthew D. LaPlante I've been reading sf stories about life ex...
19 September 2022

Why Call Them Back from Heaven? by Clifford D. Simak

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Why Call Them Back from Heaven? by Clifford D. Simak I read this as part of my ongoing investigation of life extension in science fiction...
29 August 2022

Glasshouse by Charles Stross

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  Glasshouse by Charles Stross I found this while looking for science fiction stories about mind uploading and life extension . It's s...
09 March 2022

The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer

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The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer This was wretched. I read it because it's about mind-uploading , and I am co-teaching a cla...
07 March 2022

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu

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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu I continue to work my way through stories about life extension and mind uploading for the cla...
21 February 2022

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

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Walkaway by Cory Doctorow I read this as part of my ongoing exploration of life-extension technology sf for a class I am eventually going t...
09 February 2022

Capitol by Orson Scott Card

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Capitol : The Worthing Chronicle by Orson Scott Card When I was discussing my life-extension technology class with the professors I am co-t...
02 June 2021

Review: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

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Originally published: 2002 Read: January 2021 Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan I read this a...
12 May 2021

Review: Heads by Greg Bear

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Originally published: 1991 Read: February 2021 Heads by Greg Bear I read this novella because of...
27 January 2021

Review: NeuroGeneration by Tan Le

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Published: 2020 Read: January 2021 The NeuroGeneration : The New Era in Brain Enhancement That I...
14 December 2020

Review: Immortality, Inc. by Chip Walter

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Published: 2020 Read: December 2020 Immortality, Inc. : Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billion...