From Origins to (New) Destinations

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From Origins to (New) Destinations
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50 Years Ago
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40 Years Ago
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And today
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Humans versus Machines

• Two paradigms for the Space Age
• von Braun vs. Van Allen

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Is a New Paradigm Needed?

• Trans/post-humanism?

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Are We Already On the Way?Cyborg Cybernetic
Organism

• Origins in US space program, 1960
• A cyborg is essentially a man-machine system in
  which the control mechanisms of the human portion
  are modified externally by drugs or regulatory
  devices so that the being can live in an
  environment different from the normal one.
• New York times, 1960

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Cyborgs in Fantasy and Reality
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Mote Human than HumanAre You a Cyborg?

• Human enhancement?
• Machine-Human Interface?

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Human 2.0
Nanotech data storage memory system
Cardiac flow and function monitor
Turbocharged suspension flexibility
Replacement organs
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The World, The Flesh, and the Devil

• Man is occupied and has been persistently
  occupied since his separate evolution, with three
  kinds of struggle first with the massive,
  unintelligent forces of nature, heat and cold,
  winds, rivers, matter and energy secondly, with
  the things closer to him, animals and plants, his
  own body, its health and disease and lastly,
  with his desires and fears, his imaginations and
  stupidities.
• J.D. Bernal, 1929

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• It is very easy to see the relations of the
  first two the colonization of space and the
  mechanization of the body are obviously
  complementary. The dissimilarity between the
  conditions of life in space and on the earth
  would in itself be sufficient to cause perfectly
  normal, unassisted, evolutionary changes in human
  beings
• Butdealing with the Devil?

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The Singularity
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Homo Sapiens, Post/Trans-Humanism, and Space
Exploration

• Biotech Nanotech Infotech ??? ???

Corpsicles at Alcor
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For future destinationsnew humans?

• Can we keep exploring? Should we?
• Would we change as a species? Would we have to?
• Is this forbidden science?

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Ex Nanotech
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Greeting plaque onboard Pioneer 10