Robin Hanson | On Futurism & His Best Career Advice

Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from Caltech, master’s degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years experience as a research programmer, at Lockheed and NASA.

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Yann Minh is one of the first French artists who built immersive multimedia installations. Born in 1957, he has been a video, multimedia, digital and new media artist since 1979. He is also a writer of cyberpunk science fiction, and founder of the Noonautes, a neo-cyberpunk movement. A child of television, comic strips and science fiction, his work is inspired by Nam June Paik, Giger, Druillet, Moebius, Philip K. Dick and Marshall McLuhan.

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If we were to have technological breakthroughs in a few of the most crucial fields, the world could dramatically change for the better. For example: 

• A substantial progress towards reviving cryonics patients. Just having an increase in cyronic customers would be a major positive turn that would make it so less people have to die.
• The first working whole brain emulation (creating a digital replica of a brain).
• Effective interstellar colony ships heading out to expand our civilisation.