The World Transhumanist Association is an international non-profit organization membership organization which advocates the ethical use of technology to enhance human capacities.

History

The WTA was founded as a non-profit 501c3 organization in 1998 by Nick Bostrom and David Pearce. The WTA established the Journal of Transhumanism and began working toward the recognition of transhumanism as an academic discipline. More recently, it elected James Hughes as executive director, renamed its journal the Journal of Evolution and Technology and transferred it to the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and launched a webzine called Transhumanity .

The WTA has spawned a host of chapters around the world, including active chapters in New York, Chicago, Toronto, and Quebec. In total there are nearly two-dozen formed or forming local groups—one on virtually every continent. A dozen transhumanist groups in the US, Europe, South America and Asia have also formally affiliated with the WTA, including the Extropy Institute.

Objectives

The objectives of the WTA are:

1. to support discussion and public awareness of emerging technologies;
2. to defend the right of individuals in free and democratic societies to adopt technologies that expand human capacities;
3. to anticipate and propose solutions for the potential consequences of emerging technologies.

Chapters

• Asociación Transhumanista Argentina (Argentine Transhumanist Association)
• Asociación Transhummanista Mundial - Capítulo México (Mexican Transhumanist Association)
• Asociación Transhumanista Venezolana (Venezuelan Transhumanist Association)
• Associazione Italiana Transumanisti (Italian Transhumanist Association
• Belgian Transhumanist Association
• Ceska Asociace Transhumanistu (Czech Transhumanist Association)
• Chicago Transhumanist Association
• DETRANS (German Transhumanist Association)
• FASTRA (The Spanish Transhumanist Association)
• Greek Transhumanist Association
• Hungarian Transhumanist Association
• Indian Society for Transhumanity
• New York Transhumanist Association
• Norwegian Transhumanist Association
• РОССИЙСКОЕ ТРАНСГУМАНИСТИЧЕСКОЕ ДВИЖЕНИЕ (Russian Transhumanist Association)
• Quebec Transhumanist Association
• Slovenian Transhumanist Association
• Svenska Transhumanistförbundet (Swedish Transhumanist Association)
• Toronto Transhumanist Association
• TRANSCEDO (Dutch Transhumanist Association)
• TRANSHUM Suomen Transhumanistiliitto (Finnish Transhumanist Association)
• Transhumanist Association of Kenya
• Transhumanist Association of Nigeria
• UK Transhumanist Association
• University of Chicago Transhumanist Association
• West Bengal Transhumanist Association
• WTA-Cameroon
• WTA-Uganda
• WTA-Somalia

External links

• World Transhumanist Association - Official website.
• Transhumanist Student Network - Student/Youth organization under the WTA parent organization

Transhumanism

Asociación Transhumanista Mundial | World Transhumanist Association