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The buzz: Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member Michael Anissimov says, \u201cTranshumanists advocate the improvement of human capacities through advanced technology. Not just\u2026in gadgets you get from Best Buy, but technology in the grander sense of strategies for eliminating disease, providing cheap but high-quality products to the world\u2019s poorest, improving quality of life and social interconnectedness\u2026Technology we don\u2019t notice because it\u2019s blended in with the fabric of the world, but would immediately take note of its absence if it became unavailable.\u2026looking\u2026twenty years, thirty years, and beyond.\u201d Anissimov\u2019s top ten transhumanist technologies: Cryonics, Virtual Reality, Gene Therapy/RNA Interference, Space Colonization, Cybernetics, Autonomous Self-Replicating Robotics, Molecular Manufacturing, Megascale Engineering, Mind Uploading, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). We\u2019ll ask Prof. Agnis Stibe, Chris Kalaboukis, Jacob Perkins and Lynda Roth for their predictions.