Longevity Month UK 2016
A series of H+ longevity prizes were created for the best Longevity Month realizations worldwide:
https://hpluspedia.org/wiki/October_2016_Longevity_Month_competition
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Do you remember? Longevity Day UK 2013
United Kingdom ~ 'Longevity Party UK'
Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/LongevityPartyUnitedKingdom
London Futurists
http://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/139496232/
Hangout on Air: Projects to accelerate radical healthy longevity Sunday, September 29, 2013
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
· Google Hangout
What are the most important ongoing projects to accelerate radical healthy longevity?
This "London Futurists Hangout on Air" will feature a live discussion between several leading life extension activists, who will be sharing news and views on:
• Projects they have recently completed
• Projects they are working on and/or planning to do next
• Any issues that are blocking them from doing more.
The panellists will also discuss ways in which a wider community of people can usefully become involved in activities to accelerate radical healthy longevity.
During the hangout, viewers of the live broadcast on YouTube will be able to vote in real time on questions and suggestions to be discussed by the panellists during the Hangout.
Marking Longevity Day
The London Futurists event is part of worldwide activities marking Longevity Day, which occurs each year on October 1st.
Contact the Organizer: David Wood [email protected]
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In Addition :
The Praxis, ZS, & Longevity
Saturday, September 28, 2013
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
The Queen's Larder
1 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR, London
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/zero-state/events/141964082/
Organized by Zero State: https://www.facebook.com/groups/zerostate/
As Amon Kalkin reports:
WAVE & longevity advocacy: Sep 28th meeting summary
Here’s a belated update on the small ZS London meeting which was held on Saturday September 28th, 2013:
It was a very small meeting, as advertised – technically anyone was welcome, but in the end we decided on a small get-together for a handful of friends and associates to discuss a few in-depth ideas and plan future activity. We felt that it was more important to discuss a few key plans amongst ourselves rather than try to address interested members of the general public, on this particular occasion. The planned outline of our discussion can be found at: http://www.longevityday.org/united-kingdom.html
The key points we discussed on the day are given below:
1. One of the most energetic areas associated with Futurism, Transhumanism, & Singularitarianism is that of longevity research and advocacy. While Zero State has not run any kind of longevity research or advocacy project up until this point, we intend to set up a group to explore the possibility of supporting longevity activism led by other organizations, with particular emphasis upon those which are affiliated with the broader Wave movement for positive social change through technology (of which ZS is a part).
2. This new ZS life extension group will consider longevity and cryonics research to be complementary, despite the fact that the two concerns are often not shared equally by individual activists and researchers. In short, while we acknowledge that there are many unresolved questions about the viability of cryonics, we believe that cryonics should be seriously explored as an option for those who are unfortunately unable to reap the benefits of breakthroughs in longevity science.
3. We discussed ideas associated with The Praxis, which is a set of techno-spiritual ideas put forth in a book of the same name by Dirk Bruere. The main thrust of that book is that religious themes are recapitulated by technological possibilities, and that ideas such as immortality and even resurrection can still act as the centre of vibrant communities without resorting to unnecessary religious mysticism. This has particular relevance to cryonics, since a suspended cryonics patient needs people to work toward their re-animation, and we could reasonably expect a spiritual community to be more durable and dedicated than even the links in a family chain (or indeed an insurance company).
4. It is intended that The Praxis – as a living network of communities – will be connected with Zero State by common affiliation with the Wave movement. Wave is a very new development, essentially a network of like-minded organizations dedicated to positive social change through technology. Wave won’t be officially launched until next year, but the groundwork is being laid now. This is particularly relevant to longevity activism, because a significant part of our discussion (and one of the reasons this was a small meeting) was about a particular longevity advocacy organization being one of the initial founding groups affiliated to the Wave movement. I cannot make any announcements about the details of that now, but hope to do so soon.
In short, Zero State is evolving to become part of something larger and even more exciting, and that process is marked by a new engagement with longevity activism. We’re very excited about this, and hope to become a significant part of the movement to defeat ageing over the next few years, particularly through vigorous support of other organizations.
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Amon Kalkin
WAVE: Positive Social Change Through Technology
http://wavism.net
Contact Amon Kalkin for details: [email protected]http://transhumanpraxis.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/wave-longevity-advocacy-sep-28th-meeting-summary/
Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/LongevityPartyUnitedKingdom
London Futurists
http://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/139496232/
Hangout on Air: Projects to accelerate radical healthy longevity Sunday, September 29, 2013
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
· Google Hangout
What are the most important ongoing projects to accelerate radical healthy longevity?
This "London Futurists Hangout on Air" will feature a live discussion between several leading life extension activists, who will be sharing news and views on:
• Projects they have recently completed
• Projects they are working on and/or planning to do next
• Any issues that are blocking them from doing more.
The panellists will also discuss ways in which a wider community of people can usefully become involved in activities to accelerate radical healthy longevity.
During the hangout, viewers of the live broadcast on YouTube will be able to vote in real time on questions and suggestions to be discussed by the panellists during the Hangout.
Marking Longevity Day
The London Futurists event is part of worldwide activities marking Longevity Day, which occurs each year on October 1st.
Contact the Organizer: David Wood [email protected]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In Addition :
The Praxis, ZS, & Longevity
Saturday, September 28, 2013
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
The Queen's Larder
1 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR, London
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/zero-state/events/141964082/
Organized by Zero State: https://www.facebook.com/groups/zerostate/
As Amon Kalkin reports:
WAVE & longevity advocacy: Sep 28th meeting summary
Here’s a belated update on the small ZS London meeting which was held on Saturday September 28th, 2013:
It was a very small meeting, as advertised – technically anyone was welcome, but in the end we decided on a small get-together for a handful of friends and associates to discuss a few in-depth ideas and plan future activity. We felt that it was more important to discuss a few key plans amongst ourselves rather than try to address interested members of the general public, on this particular occasion. The planned outline of our discussion can be found at: http://www.longevityday.org/united-kingdom.html
The key points we discussed on the day are given below:
1. One of the most energetic areas associated with Futurism, Transhumanism, & Singularitarianism is that of longevity research and advocacy. While Zero State has not run any kind of longevity research or advocacy project up until this point, we intend to set up a group to explore the possibility of supporting longevity activism led by other organizations, with particular emphasis upon those which are affiliated with the broader Wave movement for positive social change through technology (of which ZS is a part).
2. This new ZS life extension group will consider longevity and cryonics research to be complementary, despite the fact that the two concerns are often not shared equally by individual activists and researchers. In short, while we acknowledge that there are many unresolved questions about the viability of cryonics, we believe that cryonics should be seriously explored as an option for those who are unfortunately unable to reap the benefits of breakthroughs in longevity science.
3. We discussed ideas associated with The Praxis, which is a set of techno-spiritual ideas put forth in a book of the same name by Dirk Bruere. The main thrust of that book is that religious themes are recapitulated by technological possibilities, and that ideas such as immortality and even resurrection can still act as the centre of vibrant communities without resorting to unnecessary religious mysticism. This has particular relevance to cryonics, since a suspended cryonics patient needs people to work toward their re-animation, and we could reasonably expect a spiritual community to be more durable and dedicated than even the links in a family chain (or indeed an insurance company).
4. It is intended that The Praxis – as a living network of communities – will be connected with Zero State by common affiliation with the Wave movement. Wave is a very new development, essentially a network of like-minded organizations dedicated to positive social change through technology. Wave won’t be officially launched until next year, but the groundwork is being laid now. This is particularly relevant to longevity activism, because a significant part of our discussion (and one of the reasons this was a small meeting) was about a particular longevity advocacy organization being one of the initial founding groups affiliated to the Wave movement. I cannot make any announcements about the details of that now, but hope to do so soon.
In short, Zero State is evolving to become part of something larger and even more exciting, and that process is marked by a new engagement with longevity activism. We’re very excited about this, and hope to become a significant part of the movement to defeat ageing over the next few years, particularly through vigorous support of other organizations.
--
Amon Kalkin
WAVE: Positive Social Change Through Technology
http://wavism.net
Contact Amon Kalkin for details: [email protected]http://transhumanpraxis.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/wave-longevity-advocacy-sep-28th-meeting-summary/
