Existential Hope Drop #1: Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute
On a Positive Turning Point for Human Longevity
Existentialhope.com is a project launched by Allison Duettmann (president of Foresight Institute). It was launched as a website created to collect resources that inspire hope, and to imagine what could be done if humanity acted from a space of existential hope rather than existential angst.
In this newsletter we feature the first of our “Monthly Hope Drops”. A drop that includes a new podcast episode on existential hope, artworks and X-Hope bounties and this newsletter with a digest of what is currently happening the X-hope space.
The Existential Hope Podcast: Christine Peterson on a Positive Turning Point for Human Longevity
“In a 100 years from now, where are we going to be with human health? The science is looking super encouraging. I would be surprised if we can't make substantial, major improvements on human health and longevity significantly within a 100 years from now.”
In the first episode of the Existential Hope Podcast we interviewed Christine Peterson, co-founder and former President of Foresight Institute. We talked about everything from cryopreserved pets, sci-fi reading recommendations and the future of longevity.
More about Christine: She lectures and writes about nanotechnology, AI, and longevity. Christine leads Foresight’s technical workshops and Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology. She is co-author of Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution (Morrow, also free online) and Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work (knOwhere Press, also free online).
In the first episode of the Existential Hope-podcast, Christine Peterson suggests that one event that would inspire existential hope for humanity would be if a dog is returned to active life after cryopreservation. So we asked the visual artist TTY to imagine such an event and create an artwork based on this vision.
About the artist: TTY develops two thematics jointly: one of them is about the evolution of the human species and the other one touches upon the nature of artistic act and its future by the integration of virtual creation tools. His main objective is to enquire about the physical dematerialization as a major trend in the contemporary world.
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