“When reality gets hard to take, there’s an escape to a parallel universe — a virtual world without end where real people create online personas called avatars. Anything is possible.”
The TransVision 2006 annual conference of the World Transhumanist Association, Helsinki 17-19 August 2006, organized by the WTA and the Finnish Transhumanist Association, will be open to remote visitors in the virtual reality world of Second Life.
TransVision 2006 website
TransVision06, August 17-19: University of Helsinki, Finland, Europe
This year the theme of the conference will be Emerging Technologies of Human Enhancement. We’ll be looking at recent and ongoing technological developments and discussing associated ethical and philosophical questions.
