George Dvorsky
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George P. Dvorsky (born on May 11, 1970) is a transhumanist futurist, and author of the Sentient Developments blog. Dvorsky is a co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association, and currently serves on the board of directors for Humanity+ and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.[1][2] He is currently working as the director of operations for Commune Media Inc, a Toronto-based advertising and marketing agency.
Dvorsky is a secular Buddhist;[3] technogaian environmentalist;[4] ethical vegetarian;[5] and animal rights activist.[6] Primarily concerned with the ethical and sociological impacts of emerging technologies, specifically, "human enhancement" technologies; he seeks to promote open discussion for the purposes of education and foresight. He writes and speaks on a wide range of topics, including technoscience, ethics, existential risks, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and futurology, from a democratic transhumanist perspective.[1][2]
Dvorsky presented an argument for non-human animal biological uplift at the IEET Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights conference at Stanford University in May 2006;[7][8] and wrote the first published article in defence of the Ashley Treatment in November 2006,[9] and subsequently the only bioethicist cited by Ashley X's parents in their defense.[10] Dvorksy also presented an argument warning of the decline of democratic values and institutions in the face of existential and catastrophic risks at the Global Catastrophic Risks: Building a Resilient Civilization conference in November 2008.[11]
Dvorsky claims to have coined the following neologisms:[12]
- Astrosociobiology, the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies;[10]
- Postgenderism, a social philosophy which seeks the voluntary elimination of gender in the human species through the application of advanced biotechnology and assisted reproductive technologies;[11]
- Techlepathy, neurotechnologically-assisted telepathy.[13]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Humphrey, Stephen (2004). No Death, Please, I'm Bionic: Cyborg-Obsessed Transhumanists Push Bioethical Limits While Fending Off Foes From All Sides. http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-08-12/news_story.php. Retrieved 2007-03-03.
- ^ a b Mayer, Andre (2005). The Great Byte Hope. http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2005/01/greatbytehope.php. Retrieved 2007-03-03.
- ^ Dvorsky, George. "George Dvorsky: About". Google+. https://plus.google.com/113826130987100978989/about. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
- ^ Dvorsky, George (2003). Technophiles and Greens of the World, Unite!. http://archives.betterhumans.com/Columns/Column/tabid/79/Column/305/Default.aspx. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ Dvorsky, George (2006). Ethical eats. http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/05/ethical-eats.html. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ Dvorsky, George (2006). The myth of our exalted human place. http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/04/myth-of-our-exalted-human-place_25.html. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ Dvorsky, George (2006). IEET Monograph Series: All Together Now: Developmental and ethical considerations for biologically uplifting non human animals. Archived from the original on 2007-01-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20070108172808/http://ieet.org/writings/AllTogetherNow.pdf. Retrieved 2007-02-09.
- ^ Bailey, Ronald (2006). The Right to Human Enhancement: And also uplifting animals and the rapture of the nerds. http://www.reason.com/news/show/116489.html. Retrieved 2007-03-03.
- ^ Dvorsky, George (2006). Helping families care for the helpless. http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/809/. Retrieved 2007-02-09.
- ^ a b Dvorsky, George (2007). The "Ashley Treatment": Towards a Better Quality of Life for "Pillow Angels". http://ashleytreatment.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E25811FD0AF7C45C!1837.entry. Retrieved 2007-02-09.
- ^ a b Dvorsky, George (2008). Future Risks and the Challenge to Democracy. http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2008/12/future-risks-and-challenge-to-democracy.html. Retrieved 2000-01-24.
- ^ Dvorsky, George (2006). I, neologist nuisance. http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/10/i-neologist-nuisance.html. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
- ^ Dvorksy, George (2004). Evolving Towards Telepathy. http://archives.betterhumans.com/Columns/Column/tabid/79/Column/267/Default.aspx. Retrieved 2007-02-09.
[edit] External links
- Sentient Developments George Dvorsky's blog
- Will death die? Dvorsky as a guest on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
