True Mutations
Book: True Mutations: Interviews on the Edge of Science, Technology, and Consciousness. RU Sirius.
Summary
"looks at the wild changes that may be coming to the human species during the 21st Century. In a series of interviews, author/host RU Sirius explores a series of (r)evolutions in disciplines ranging from the evolution of clean energy to the possibilities of endless neurological ecstasy; from open-source free access to nearly everything under the sun to self-directed biotechnological evolution; from psychedelic culture mash-ups to the possibilities of a technological singularity that alters not only humanity but the entire universe.
In 2007, True Mutations takes up where his earlier book (with Rudy Rucker) Mondo 2000: A User’s Guide to the New Edge left off. I hope these playful, informative, occasionally skeptical, frequently trippy, and sometimes funny conversations turn you on to new ways of thinking about these sometimes scary and definitely wiggy times and inspire new forms of creative work and play among those who read it." (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/13/ru_sirius_true_mutat.html)
Contents
INTRODUCTION
It Ain’t Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings at Your 160th Birthday Party: RU Curious Interviews RU Sirius
SECTION ONE: Digital Revolution Reaches PUBERTY
How the Sixties Shaped the Personal Computer Revolution with John Markoff Other Worlds: Real and Imagined with Jamais Cascio We Are All as Weird as Any of Us with Cory Doctorow The End-To-End Principle with Clay Shirkey Between Anarchy and Oligarchy with Siva Vaidhyanathan When Cooperation Breaks Out with Howard Rheingold Imagine Jaron Lanier with Jaron Lanier The Top 11 Reasons Why VR has not yet become Commonplace by Jaron Lanier We Like to Watch with Ken Goldberg Virtually Ahead Of Everybody with Lynn Hershman
SECTION TWO: THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON TECHNOLOGY
The Manchurian Rodent with David Pescovitz Hey, Look at my Brain! with Steven Johnson The Neuroceutical Age with Zack Lynch Is It Your Brain? with Wrye Sententia Nootropics: Past, Present & Future with Will Block I Meme Mine with Susan Blackmore
SECTION THREE: LOVING THE TRANSHUMAN
BioPunk News You Can Use with David Duncan Fountains of Youth with Michael Asimov and Aubrey de Gray More-Than-Humanism with Ramez Naam Feeling Groovy, Forever with David Pierce TRANSitions with Christopher Dewdney The Whole Thing Spirals Out of Control with Mark Pesce Does Transhumanism Suck? with Annalee Newitz
SECTION FOUR: AN OPEN SOURCE FOR THE SELF
True Mutations: An Open Source for the Self with Genesis P. Orridge Hang The Tsar! with Robert Anton Wilson Magickal Reality Hacking with Richard Metzger Players with Pat Kane The 2012 (Or Thereabouts) Trip with Daniel Pinchbeck No Gene is an Island with Howard Bloom Recombinant Culture: Cut Sounds and Memes with Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky