Nikki Olson
Nikki Olson
produced the following educational videos for the
Lifeboat Foundation:
Existential Risks,
Mixed and Virtual Reality, and
The AI Physician.
Nikki is an
Affiliate Scholar of the IEET and is a transhumanist writer/researcher
authoring unique articles on transhumanist culture and advancing
technology.
Her articles include
How the Missing Biography of Satoshi Nakamoto Impacts the World at Large,
Do You Want to be a Cyborg, or a Transhuman?,
Oscar Pistorius Now … Elective Amputation in 10 Years?,
3D Printing Laboratories: The Age of DIY Designer Drugs Begins,
Researchers, Ahoy! Should Futurist Science Move… Offshore?,
Artificial Wombs Will Spawn New Freedoms,
How Safely Can You Practice DIY Drugs?,
Five Factors Influencing the Adoption of Artificial Meat,
and
Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny-Singularities.
Read the
full list of her articles.
Nikki has been involved in Singularity research for 4 years as a full-time
research assistant. She worked on an upcoming book about the
Singularity and aided in the development of the University of Alberta
course “Technology and the Future of Medicine”.
Her interests lie in scarcity reducing technology, biotechnology, DIY,
augmentation technologies, artificial intelligence, and transhumanist
philosophy.
Nikki earned her bachelor’s degree
in 2007 in Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada.
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