And now, hopefully sooner than the last set, my notes taken during the Transhuman Superpowers and Longevity Conference held on 12 July 2015 in Oakland, CA. Everything's behind the cut, with references as applicable. Personal observations (are on separate lines in parenthesis) to differentiate them from the speaker's material. Vertical Farm Civilization - Karl Doerrer

• Dr. Dickson Despommier at Columbia University in 1999
• Resource management
• Published his first book on the topic in 2009 - The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
• People seeing your own rig makes people want to build their own
• Social symbiosis
• Indoor vertical farming …

At long last, here are my notes from the Transhuman Strategies conference held by the Brighter Brains Institute on 21 March 2015. It took me a while to find the notebook I wrote them in, so that's why they're a few months late in coming. Anyway, my notes are under the cut.

Hank Pellissier - Transhumanitarian Projects

• Goals: Extending life, increasing mental ability
• Life expectency in Japan is 80, in Sierra Leone is 35
• Hunger is still the greatest killer
• Shipping food or backing projects
• De-worming - parasiting infections in children
• The energy deficit incurred by parasitic infection lowers IQ in children …