What's the most exciting thing to research in human enhancement?

August 14, 2015
Security will be the number one field... Zoltan Istvan
Aging research...
Maria Konovalenko
Brain research...
Karim Jebari

"The dilemma of human enhancement"
is released on August 20, at 6 PM CET, on www.crosstalks.tv

Guests in the studio:
Karim Jebari, Ph.D in analytic philosophy, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology and Post Doc at the Institute for Futures Studies
Gustav Nilsonne, MD, PhD, researcher in cognitive neuroscience at Stockholm University
Mats Nilsson, Lecturer and researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

On Skype:
Zoltan Istvan, writer, philosopher, futurist and 2016 presidential candidate for the newly formed Trans humanist Party
Maria Konovalenko, Molecular biophysicist, Program Coordinator for the Science for Life Extension Foundation

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