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I just spent two days at the Humanity+ Summit at Harvard.  Now that I'm back home, I keep wondering what I would say if someone asked me if I'd like to live longer (maybe forever), be healthier, smarter, and happier? What if in order to reach these goals I'd have to use technologies that would change my human nature and make myself what some people call "post human?" My answer to the first question is yes, probably, and no to the second. Maybe your answers would be different. Whatever your point of view, it's crucial for all mothers to have answers to these questions--and soon.

The answers matter. At the Summit, I spent time with a community of brilliant people who say "yes" to both questions. They call themselves Transhumanists and they are anticipating and working toward a future in which a range of new technologies combine to enable human beings to transcend the constraints of our biology and expand our capacities. The Humanity+ Summit was a marathon session of more than fifty, mostly ten-minute, highly informative presentations by leading experts in genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology, among other fields--all exploring ways in which the accelerating pace of technological change might transform the human condition.

Join us on Mothers for a Human Future Radio on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 11 AM, Eastern time, for a conversation about the harm advertisers and marketers are doing to children and what you can do to stop it.

Our Topic: Freeing Childhood from Corporate Marketers

Our guest: Dr. Susan Linn, a leader in the movement to rescue children and childhood from corporate marketers, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, and author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood