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1923
"Daedalus or Science of the future" was written by British scientist J. B. S. Haldane. It presented an early vision of trans humanist thought and focused on the ethical implications of scientific progress. -
1929
In his book "The World, the Flesh and the Devil", British scientist John Desmond Bernal introduced key ideas of transhumanism like the future changes science could bring to the human body. -
1954
The idea of evading death by uploading and restoring human consciousness appeared for the first time in a sci-fi novel "The Altered Ego", written by author and scriptwriter Jerry Sohl (Star Trek, The Twilight Zone)
https://www.risingshadow.net/library/book/24163-the-altered-ego -
1976
Creation of the Cryonics Institute with its first clients being frozen in liquid nitrogen. -
1996
Dolly The Sheep, cloned by Keith Campbell, Ian Wilmut, and fellow researchers in Scotland with the funding of the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics. Following the success, research in cloning continued and developed.
https://dolly.roslin.ed.ac.uk/facts/the-life-of-dolly/index.html -
1998
The World Tranhumanist Association was founded by philosopher Nick Bostrom and David Pearce. Twenty years later it was renamed Humanity+. -
2011
Google X's lab started working on Google Brain, an artificial intelligence research project.
https://x.company -
2012
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna from Berkeley University, California, invented CRISPR (Cas9), a technology of genome editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PU5bCflzEM -
2015
Transhumanist Party leader and founder Zoltan Istvan became presidential candidate (USA). -
2020
Elon Musk's neurotechnology start-up company Neuralink (2016) sought US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to begin clinical trials in 2020 for their brain-machine interface. The company expected this technology to be able to make up for lost sections of the brain following a stroke or an accident for example.
https://neuralink.com