The second Terasem Colloquium of 2026 will take place on Monday, December 14, the anniversary of the last day with astronauts on the Moon.
The Colloqium will take place via Zoom, from 10am ET to 1pm ET.
Please see this page for summaries and video recordings of previous Terasem Colloquia.
The theme of the Colloquium is: “New politics for new worlds” (h/t Julian Huxley - “New bottles for new wine”).
The aspiration for exciting, awesome futures is compatible with a wide range of value systems - Right, Left, and everything in-between and beyond. A big-tent futurist mindset could be embraced by many and propel us toward bright futures.
A companion issue of Terasem’s Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness will be published before the Colloquium.
You are invited! This page will be edited to add speakers (we plan to invite one or two more), agenda, and Zoom access coordinates.
Speakers
David Wood
David Wood is Chair of London Futurists, Executive Director of the LEV Foundation, and a committed technoprogressive. He is a co-founder of the UK Transhumanist Party (now defunct), a veteran of the early days of the smartphone industry, and the author or co-editor of 12 books about the future, including “Vital Foresight” and “Transcending Politics.”
James Hughes
James Hughes, the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is a bioethicist and sociologist. He previously served as the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning for the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of “Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future.”
Micah Redding
Micah Redding is a software developer and writer on the subject of human values and technology. He is the Executive Director of the Christian Transhumanist Association.
R.U. Sirius
Ken Goffman (aka R.U. Sirius) is the former co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the 1990s cyberpunk magazine “Mondo 2000.” He is author or coauthor of books including “Counterculture Through The Ages,” “Cyberpunk Handbook,” and “Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity.”
Tom W. Bell
Tom W. Bell earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago, practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., and served as a policy director for the Cato Institute before joining the faculty of Chapman University Fowler School of Law in 1998. His scholarship and consulting focuses on special jurisdictions, a topic explored in his book, “Your Next Government? From the Nation State to Stateless Nations” (Cambridge University Press 2018). He created Ulex, the open source legal system. He coined the term “Extropy” and co-founded “Extropy Magazine” with Max More.