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Biology and technology coming together



-Dennis Gabor


Great technological advancements require well-considered complimentary laws. Unfortunately, those laws often arrive much later than the technologies. For example, the first speed-limit laws were not passed until 1901. By comparison, just in 1899 thirty American manufacturers produced 2,500 motor vehicles. 


While it is also true that premature laws may stifle the development of nascent, transformative technologies, the pace at which technology is now advancing and becoming more central to our everyday lives--for both inside and outside of our bodies--requires a reasoned, prospective approach to legislation. Particularly as technologies such as brain-computer interfaces and general artificial intelligence promise to bring about a paradigm shift in the fundamental functioning of society, delaying putting reasoned thought into the novel legal issues that will inevitably come follow is a recipe for chaos. 


As such, the purpose of this website is to build a legal foundation for the future. This is a place where we can imagine the unique legal issues that our Cyborg descendants will face and offer them well-thought-out solutions. 


So, whether you consider yourself a cyborg, transhuman, grinder, biohacker, futurist, lawyer, legislator, or forward thinker, let's join together to make our legal future a little less unknown. 

Man with a cybernetic prosthetic arm


-C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (1943)

A glowing futuristic cyborg


-John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690)



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"[N]o matter what quandaries we face--business problems, health issues, relationship difficulties, as well as the great scientific, social, and cultural challenges of our time--there is an idea that can enable us to prevail."

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near (2005)

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