Future Current

Brian Wang and Michael Anissimov at the 2007 Foresight Vision Weekend

Michael Anissimov co-founded the Immortality Institute in 2002, a life extension advocacy organization that today includes hundreds of members and an online community. In 2003, he founded the SF Bay Area Transhumanists. He has also written numerous articles for the Q&A site WiseGEEK, offering “clear answers for common questions” on technology. Michael is Fundraising Director, North America for the Lifeboat Foundation, and serves on the Global Task Force for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. At the 2007 Foresight Vision Weekend, he gave a presentation on the measures currently being taken by the Lifeboat Foundation to address existential risks, or possible human extinction event scenarios.

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Anne Corwin is an engineer and technoprogressive activist based in California. She is an intern with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and a volunteer for the Methuselah Foundation. She is also the author of the blog Existence is Wonderful and produces the associated podcast, Existence is Wonderful audio. In this talk with Accelerating Future’s founder Michael Anissimov, she spoke on how futurist topics like neurodiversity, life extension and self-modification are relevant to discussion today.

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