So, basically this blog is about my life’s work, which is to do everything I can to make the human species and the tools we use more intelligent. This comes not out of some elite intellectualistic notion that to be a smarter is to be onlogicically better. Instead, I think that we as a species are facing several existential threats in this century, and that we’re not currently smart enough to find solutions to those threats. Some of ways we can increase human intelligence are fairly conventional, and fit well with a classic progressive agenda. (Improved nutrition for children, universal education including advocacy for the education of women in developing countries, unfettered access to information, etc.) Other ways are much more radical, including the use of nootropic substances, volitional evolution and body modification and augmentation. Still others lie somewhere in between with the extension of computer networking and the micronization of processors to create a smart world, where the “internet of things” is able to respond and proactively adapt to human needs.

This blog will be a way for me to comment on some of the more interesting enhancement news items that crop up, as well as a place for me to muse on this subject and others related and not so related that interest me. Comments are welcomed and encouraged.