Before a third wave?
After the first wave, Peter Fleissner has been simulating the second wave of COVID-19 in Austria in his modelling project. With data from 1 June 2020 until 15 December 2020, the simulation yields a forecast of a third wave. The…
Wolfgang Hofkirchner archives (page 17)
Transhumanism: The Proper Guide to a Posthuman Condition or a Dangerous Idea?
The book project with that title ended, eventually, in the book release. Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Hans-Jörg Kreowski edited this volume. It contains 15 chapters organised into four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and sociological aspects of transhumanism. The project was…
Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing
Günther Witzany, independent philosopher in Salzburg, Austria, has become friends with GSIS. He runs a website on Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing. “Biocommunication” is the term Witzany coined to label his approach for which he found evidence through many research…
Continue reading the "Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing" »
Campaign “Terre-Patrie” – Edgar Morin’s theses revisited in 2021 to relate to the agenda of peace in the “Anthropocene”
GSIS joins as partner the new campaign of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR). This campaign will recall the theses Edgar Morin formulated in the 1990s for the new millennium and will culminate in next year’s…
Digital Humanism: Nida-Rümelin on philosophical foundations
Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosopher and political theorist at the LMU (University of Munich), author of Digitaler Humanismus 2018 together with his wife, literary scholar and film theorist Nathalie Weidenfeld, is the speaker at the next DigHum Lectures on 15 December 2020,…
Continue reading the "Digital Humanism: Nida-Rümelin on philosophical foundations" »
Evolutionary dynamics of social systems – looking for a new dialogue
Under that title, a special issue of the journal Biosystems was released recently. More than twenty contributions have been edited by Pedro C. Marijuán, Bioinformation and Systems Biology Group at the Aragon Health Sciences Institute in Zaragoza, Spain, and Andrei…
Continue reading the "Evolutionary dynamics of social systems – looking for a new dialogue" »
Shima Beigi at TEDWomen 2020 FEARLESS
Researcher Shima Beigi is selected as one of the speakers at TEDWomen under this year’s theme fearless. That’s what she is happy to speak about: Fearless living for all human beings around the world. Liberation, self-actualisation, and fearlessly facing dogmas…
Continue reading the "Shima Beigi at TEDWomen 2020 FEARLESS" »
The International Review of Information Ethics migrated to Alberta
The International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) founded by renowned information philosopher – the first in the West – Rafael Capurro, has found a new platform after his retirement. Jared Bielby, research associate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton,…
Continue reading the "The International Review of Information Ethics migrated to Alberta" »
19-20 November 2020 Third Vienna Workshop on Digital Humanism
The topic: Strategies for a Humanistic Digital Future On Thursday, 19 November 2020, and Friday, 20 November 2020, from 16:00 to 18:30 CET, you can join international experts and policy-makers in online discussions or watch them via YouTube LiveStream. Programme:…
Continue reading the "19-20 November 2020 Third Vienna Workshop on Digital Humanism" »
The Information Age Imperative
Wolfgang Hofkirchner held a lecture at the online November plenary session of the Leibniz society of scholars (Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin) on 12 November 2020. The talk was in German and so are the slides. The Information Age Imperative…