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2019-07-06

James Lovelock at 100: the Gaia saga continues

Tim Radford reassesses the independent scientist’s groundbreaking body of writing. Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence James Lovelock Allen Lane (2019) [He developed] a sustained and developing argument, in the face of sometimes dismissive criticism, that recast Earth as, in effect, a superorganism. Lovelock’s Gaia theory states that, for much of the past 3.8 billion years, a […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Artificial Agency, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Environment, Evolution, Fear of the Future, Future Challenges, Future of Bio-information, Future of Governance, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-05-12

Forget the Anthropocene: we’ve entered the synthetic age

An Anthropocene epoch requires one kind of psychological adjustment. A synthetic age demands something considerably more. One fact about our time is becoming increasingly well-known. No matter how far you travel, no matter in which direction you point, there is nowhere on Earth that remains free from the traces of human activity. The chemical and […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Biocultural Frames for Values, Earth-as-art-project, Fear of the Future, Future of Bio-information, Future of Governance, Future of Identity, Future of Science, Synthetic Biology, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-03-26

Biological and Cultural Evolution

Six Characters in Search of an Author An EDGE Original Essay By Freeman Dyson  In the near future, we will be in possession of genetic engineering technology which allows us to move genes precisely and massively from one species to another. Careless or commercially driven use of this technology could make the concept of species meaningless, […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Biological Evolution, Cultural Evolution, Economics, Fear of the Future, Foresight, Future of Bio-information, Future of Political-Economy, Future of Science, Genes, Memes, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2017-05-06

What Saliva Reveals About North America

Anticipation of the near future gene census to understand the human gene pool as our common wealth. What do you do with 770,000 tubes of saliva collected from over 3 million AncestryDNA customers? Ancestry scientists have an unusual answer: Create a ground-breaking map of North America’s history-based diversity using the genetic data from the analysis […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Complexity, culture, Domestication of DNA, Future of Bio-information, Human genome, Identity, migration, Nationalism, values Leave a Comment

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