- Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on the anthropic principle. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (2000). In addition to his writing for academic and popular press, Bostrom makes frequent media appearances in which he talks about transhumanism-related topics such as cloning, artificial intelligence, mind uploading, cryonics, nanotechnology, and the simulation argument.
- Anders Sandberg
Anders Sandberg (born July 11 1972) is a science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author. He holds a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University and is currently postdoctoral research assistant for the Oxford group of the EU ENHANCE Project at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute (Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University). He is co-founder of and writer for the think tank Eudoxa.
- James Hughes
James J. Hughes Ph.D. is a bioethicist and sociologist teaching health policy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Hughes holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he served as the assistant director of research for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.
- George Dvorsky
George P. Dvorsky (born on May 11, 1970) is an agenda-driven futurist who is the organizer of the Betterhumans online community and the author of the "Sentient Developments" blog. Dvorsky is also a co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association, has served on the board of directors for the World Transhumanist Association, and currently serves on the board of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
- Max More
Max More is a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on advanced decision making and foresight methods for handling the impact of emerging technologies. Born in Bristol, England, More has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St Anne’s College, Oxford University (1987). His 1995 University of Southern California doctoral dissertation "The Diachronic Self: Identity, Continuity, …
- David Brin
Glen David Brin, Ph.D. (October 6, 1950) is a well-known American author of science fiction. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in southern California.
- Hans Moravec
Hans Moravec (born November 30 1948 in Austria) is a research professor at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene.
- Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories of machine learning. He sees this as a crisis point in a time of an aging population that he feels will need help in performing many tasks. "We have a computer program that can beat a world chess champion, but we don’t have one that can reach for an umbrella on a rainy day, or put a pillow in a pillow case."
- David Pearce
David Pearce is a British philosopher and negative utilitarian. He promotes the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. He is best known for his book-length work "The Hedonistic Imperative". It details how he believes the abolition of suffering can be accomplished through "paradise engineering". A technogaian vegan, Pearce also calls for the elimination of cruelty to animals. Among his websites, there are many devoted to the plight of animals.
- Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
- Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is a science fiction author and more recently an author of mainstream novels. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict ("Forge of God" books), artificial universes ("Eon" series), consciousness and cultural practices ("Queen of Angels"), and accelerated evolution ("Blood Music", "Darwin's Radio", and "Darwin's Children").
- Fm-2030
FM-2030 was a name adopted by the transhumanist philosopher and futurist Fereidoun M. Esfandiary (October 15, 1930-July 8, 2000), who professed "a deep nostalgia for the future." He wrote one of the seminal works in the transhumanist canon, "Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World", published in 1989. He also wrote a number of works of fiction under his original name F.M. Esfandiary.
- Robert Bradbury
Robert Bradbury is a transhumanist who is known for inventing the concept of the Matrioshka Brain. He graduated in applied mathematics in Harvard and microbiology from the University of Washington. He currently works in the field of life extension.
- Hugo de Garis
Hugo de Garis (born 1947, Sydney, Australia) is a researcher in the sub-field of artificial intelligence known as evolvable hardware which involves evolving neural net circuits directly in hardware to build artificial brains. He is more recently notorious for his view of the eventual dominance of Artificial Intelligence over human intelligence, which has sparked debate and criticism, particularly among the more media-friendly members of the AI research community.
- Martine Rothblatt
Martine Aliana Rothblatt Ph.D, MBA, J.D. (born 1954 as Martin Rothblatt) is a transgendered American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur. Rothblatt graduated from UCLA with a combined law and MBA degree in 1981, then began work in Washington DC, first in the field of communication satellite law, and eventually in life sciences projects like the Human Genome Project.
- Robert Freitas
Robert A. Freitas Jr. is a Senior Research Fellow, one of four researchers at the nonprofit foundation Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (IMM) in Palo Alto, California. He holds a 1974 Bachelor's degree majoring in both physics and psychology from Harvey Mudd College, and a 1978 Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Santa Clara University. He has written more than 150 technical papers, book chapters, or popular articles on a diverse set of scientific, engineering, …
- Raymond Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil (pronounced:) (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, technological singularity, and futurism.
- Robert Ettinger
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (born December 4, 1918) is known as "the father of cryonics" due to the impact of his 1962 book "The Prospect of Immortality". He is considered by some a pioneer transhumanist on the basis of his 1972 book "Man into Superman". Robert Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute and the related Immortalist Society and until 2003 served as their President. His first and second wives have both been cryopreserved as well as his mother.
- Joseph Bloch
Joseph Bloch (1966 - present) is an advocate of transhumanism and is active in science fiction fandom. A graduate of The Pingry School in Martinsville, NJ, and Boston University, he is a veteran of the United States Air Force, having served during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In 2004 he founded the Center for Human Enhancement, a for-profit venture aimed at making enhancement technologies and techniques available to everyone.
- Bruce Cordell
Bruce Robert Cordell (born 1968) is an American author of roleplaying games and fantasy novels. He is the winner of the Origins Award as well as several ENnies. He lives in Seattle with his wife and household of pets.
- Keith Henson
Keith Henson On July 19, 2000, Keith Henson was arrested by the Riverside County, California, Sheriff’s Office for making terrorist threats on the Internet against the Church of Scientology. On April 26, 2001, a jury found Henson guilty of having committed a hate crime under section 422.6 of the California Penal Code . Henson was scheduled to appear for sentencing on May 16, 2001, but failed to appear and the Judge was forced to issue a warrant for his arrest.
- Alexander Chislenko
Alexander "Sasha" Chislenko (December 2, 1959 - May 8, 2000) was an active member of the transhumanist and extropian communities, contributing many speculative essays on singularity-inspired topics between 1997 and 1999. According to his homepage, he left Leningrad, Russia for Boston, Massachusetts in 1989. Of particular note was his early belief in the value and power of collaborative filtering.
- Stephen Euin Cobb
Stephen Euin Cobb (born February 3, 1955) is a U.S. science fiction author, futurist and the host of the award-winning podcast "The Future And You". He also writes a regular column in "Jim Baen's Universe", the online magazine from Baen Books. He is also a game designer, artist, essayist and transhumanist. As the host of "The Future And You", a two hour long talk-show style podcast, …
- Riccardo Campa
Riccardo Campa is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cracow. He possesses two Master of Arts degrees, in Political Science and Philosophy, from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
- Khannea Suntzu
Khannea Suntzu is the name of a Resident in Second Life. She was entioned in articles in Le Monde, CGW and the Forbes.com website in several articles about virtual prostitution. One of the first females to be associated with sl-escorts.com and is apparently associated with its creator, Jeroen de Groot. Currently Khannea Suntzu is also associated one Genvieve Hutchence, also an active avatar in Second Life, and manager of the SL-based club "The Supreme Fetishist".
- Joseph Fletcher
Joseph Fletcher (1905-1991) was an American professor who founded the theory of situational ethics in the 1960s, and was a pioneer in the field of bioethics. Fletcher was a leading academic involved in the topics of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, eugenics, and cloning. Ordained as an Episcopal priest, he later renounced his belief in God and became an atheist. Fletcher was a prolific professor, teaching, participating in symposia, and completing ten books, …
- Robin Green
Robin Green is a postgraduate student at University College Dublin in the School of Computer Science and Informatics. His research interests include formal methods and writing efficient programming languages. Green is also a transhumanist activist notable for having coined the term "transhumanist socialism" and written on this political philosophy.
- Mark Alan Walker
Mark Alan Walker Ph.D. is a research associate in philosophy at Trinity College, University of Toronto. He is founder and president of Permanent End International, a nonprofit organization devoted to ending hunger, illiteracy and environmental degradation. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Evolution and Technology and is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Dr. Walker also teaches at McMaster University.
- Justice de Thézier
Justice De Thézier is a Canadian social entrepreneur and creative professional. The son of Haitian immigrants, De Thézier was born and grew up in Montreal. In 2003, De Thézier founded the Quebec Transhumanist Association, an activist collective which promotes transhumanism in Quebec. In 2006, De Thézier became a member of the board of directors of the World Transhumanist Association, …
- Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (surname also Anglicized as "Fedorov") (June 9, 1829-December 28, 1903) was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of the Russian cosmism movement and philosophy of Transhumanism. Fyodorov advocated radical life extension using scientific methods, human immortality and resurrection of dead people
- Maia Bittner
maia bittner is a young lady who worked at spock
- Carl Lindgren
Carl Edwin Lindgren is a noted historical scholar, educationist and professor of military studies. He is listed on several editorial boards and the author of over 200 journal and magazine articles (50 of which are referenced on Wikipedia). Dr. Lindgren has been elected a fellow of various noted academies including the World Academy of Art and Science, …
- Stuart Copeland
Stuart William Copeland (born 19 January 1968 in Taroom, Queensland) is a National Party politician representing the seat of Cunningham in the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 17 February 2001. Mr Copeland is married and has two children. Mr Copeland is Secretary of the Opposition, and has been Shadow Minister for Education the Arts since 28 September 2005.
- Alain van Kerckhoven
Alain Van Kerckhoven (born October 10 1964) is a Belgian music publisher and author. His music publishing house is devoted to contemporary classical music.
- Michael Anissimov
Chapter six of The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil began with the following quote from Michael Anissimov One of the biggest flaws in the common conception of the future is that the future is something that happens to us, not something we create. He has also said I cannot emphasize this enough.
- John T.F. Burgess
Doc student in information science
- Jason Brown
Born in St. Louis, living in Seattle. I've spent my life trying to shed my midwestern inhibitions, eat everything in sight and figure out what I'm going to be when I grow up.
- Matt Bowes
I am not a myspace slut.
- Ramez Naam
Ramez Naam is a professional technologist who was involved in the development of widely-used software products such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. He is the CEO of Apex Nanotechnologies, a company involved in developing nanotechnology research software. He currently holds a seat on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is a member of the World Future Society, a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute, …
- Dan Zappone
I'm anti-entropic, radically-skeptic, and generally optimistic. I dislike stupidty - mine and others. I do not believe anything.