Todd Huffman - “Reality-Hacking: The Transition from Cyberpunk to Science to Engineering”
March 23rd, 2007[Back to Meetings]
Date and Time: Friday, March 23, 2007, 4 PM
Location: Room 2919 at the Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 N. Campbell | map
Title: "Reality-Hacking: The Transition from Cyberpunk to Science to Engineering"
Presenter: Todd Huffman - Huffman is a neuroscientist and transhumanist, with fingers in computational biology, body modification, cryonics, and other reality hacking enterprises. Profile in Body Modification Ezine.
Presentation Description: Cyberpunk visions have been steadily moving from the world of literature into reality. This presentation tracks the transition of various transhuman technologies from fantasy to fringe science and outlines paths by which they may become material for engineering texts.