Tomorrowland (35 page)

threats against,
238

obesity,
56

O’Brochta, David,
137

obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),
162
,
163

Oculus Rift,
30

Ohme, Chloe,
259

oil resources,
111
,
113
,
148

Oncos Therapeutics,
225

optic nerve, in near-death experiences,
41
–
42

organized crime,
235
–
36

Ortiz, Deborah,
212

Osmond, Humphry,
169

Ossur,
15

out-of-body experiences.
See
extreme states

Pacala, Stephen,
114

Page, Larry,
145

paranormal,
36
.
See also
extreme states

Parke, David and Company,
168

Parkinson’s disease,
206

parthenogenesis,
208

Pasteur, Louis,
204

Patient Alpha.
See
vision
: artificial implants for

pectus excavatum,
164

Pedersen, Roger,
211

penetration testing,
243
–
44

Penfield, Wilder,
43
,
46

Persinger, Michael,
47

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine,
27

peyote,
168

P gene,
136

pheromone bombs,
241

phone phreakers,
235

phosphenes,
64
–
65

phosphorus,
150

phosphorus pollution,
90
–
91

pilots, out-of-body experiences in,
40
–
42
,
46
–
47

Planetary Resources Inc. (PRI),
145

platinum-group metals,
150

Pliny the Elder,
133

Pohl, Frederik,
27

polio genome,
233

pollution,
81
,
83
,
89
,
90
–
91

from burning coal,
112

climate change and,
113
–
14

flying cars and,
101

from nuclear energy,
114
–
16

Ponce de León,
185

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

after brushes with death,
43
–
45

psychedelic drugs for treatment of,
162
,
163
–
64
,
176
–
77

Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Power
(Cravens),
112

Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues,
232
–
33

president of the United States,
219
–
46

biosensing technologies and,
242
–
43

ease of acquiring DNA from,
239
–
40

efforts to protect DNA of,
222

open-sourcing DNA of,
243
–
46

threats to,
238
–
40

President’s Council on Bioethics,
214
,
217

“Preventing a Brave New World or Why We Should Ban Human Cloning Now” (Kass),
214
–
15

Price-Anderson Act,
110

Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer
(Lilly),
172

prosthetics,
3
–
21

aesthetics of,
13

ankle,
16
–
21

arm,
18

bionic,
13
–
15

with embodied intelligence,
14

exoskeleton,
20

functionality of,
13
–
15

health care costs and,
19
–
20

history of,
11

knee,
14
–
15
,
20

pain from,
16

research funding for,
11
–
12

retinal,
74
–
76

psilocybin,
162
,
175

psychedelic drugs,
155
–
82

in addiction treatment,
169

in alcoholism treatment,
169

animal use of,
167

current research on,
171
–
74
,
176
–
77
,
180

early research into,
168
–
70

empathodelics and,
160

in end-of-life care,
157
–
61
,
164
–
67
,
170
–
71
,
180
–
82

legislation against,
169
–
70
,
173

MDMA,
160
–
61

mind-body medicine and,
164
–
65

mushrooms,
167
–
68
,
169

research on,
161
–
64

risks of,
160
–
61

in spiritual traditions,
167
–
68

punctuated equilibrium,
49
,
54
,
56

PUREX (Plutonium Uranium Extraction),
115
–
16

Raelians,
217

Raikhel, Alexander,
139

rate-of-living theory,
191

Reagan, Ronald,
12
,
116
,
210
,
240

Realms of the Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research
(Grof),
172

Red Bull Stratos Project,
127
–
29

red team exercises,
243
–
44

Registry of Standard Biological Parts,
234

Reiss, Spencer,
111

Rejuven,
193

religion

epilepsy associated with,
43
–
44

ethics of space travel and,
143
–
44

fear of death and,
29

psychedelic drugs in,
167
–
68
,
173

on sperm banks and incest,
259
–
60

stem cell research and,
207
,
208
–
10
,
217

on vision as proof of God,
74

REM sleep, near-death experiences and,
44
–
45

renewable energy,
112
–
13
,
114

Retinal Prosthesis Lab,
76

Rheo Knee,
15

Riccio, Jim,
113
,
122

Rig Veda,
168

Riverwoods Field Laboratory,
86

Roe v. Wade,
208

Rosenau, William,
233
–
34

Ross, Ronald,
134

Ross, Stephen,
169

Rossin, Dave,
118

Rothenberg, Ron,
185
–
87
,
192
,
197
–
98

Rothman, Cappy,
247
,
249
–
63

Rothman, Norman “Roughneck,”
249

Rozelle, David,
5
–7,
10
–
12
,
15
–
19
,
20
–
21

Rubin, Gerald,
136
–
37

Rutan, Burt,
151

Salk, Jonas,
55

Sandoz Pharmaceuticals,
168

Saskatchewan Study,
169

Satava, Richard,
15

Schmidt, Eric,
145

Schwartz, Peter,
11

science fiction

on asteroid mining,
145
,
147
–
48

on mind uploading,
27
–
28

terraforming in,
87

Sears, Derek,
150

Seattle Study,
39
–
40

self, boundaries of,
46
–
47

Selfridge, Tom,
66
–
67

Senate Bill
212
,
215

serotonin,
42

Shaw, George Bernard,
3

Shell,
148

Siegel, Ronald,
167

Simak, Paul,
145

Single Mothers by Choice,
253

The Singularity Is Near
(Kurzweil),
28

The Six Million Dollar Man
(TV show),
11

ski-BASE,
130

Skycar,
100

skydiving,
35
–
36
,
125
–
30

Skygrabber,
235

slavery, financial profitability of,
51
–
53

smallpox,
236
–
37

Small Scale Nuclear Reactors,
119
,
121

Socolow, Robert,
114

Solazyme,
231
–
32

Sorenson, Kirk,
120

Soul Catcher,
25
–
27
,
28
,
30
–
31

sound barrier,
xii
,
101

Southern Baptist Church,
260

Space Adventures Ltd.,
145

SpaceShipOne,
129

SpaceShipTwo,
xiii
,
129

space travel,
129
–
30

asteroid mining and,
141
–
52

ethics of,
143
–
47

off-world colonies and,
150
–
51

XPRIZE competition for,
xi
–
xiii
,
129

Special Theory of Relativity,
109

SPECT (single positron emission computed topography),
45
–
46

Spenser, Jack,
111

sperm banks,
247
–
63

donor anonymity in,
253
–
57
,
260
–
62

donor screening for,
252
–
53
,
261
–
62

donor tracking by,
256
–
57
,
262

economics of,
250
–
51

incest among offspring from,
257
–
60

regulation of,
251
,
258
–
59
,
260
–
63

Spirit of America
(car),
xii

spiritual traditions,
xiv
–
xvi

fear of death and,
29

mystical experiences and,
33
–
48

near-death experiences and,
42
–
45

psychedelic drugs in,
167
–
68

spoonbills,
93
–
94

sports

extreme,
125
–
30

out-of-body experiences in,
36
–
37

as play,
125

prosthetics and,
12
–
13
,
15
,
17
,
19
–
20

skydiving,
35
–
36
,
125
–
30

steroid use in,
183
,
187
–
90
,
193
–
95

weightlifting,
189
–
90

Spradling, Allan,
136
,
137

stabilization wedges,
114

Stanford, George,
106
,
119
–
120

Stanford University,
216
–
17

Stapledon, Olaf,
85

Stardust
(space vehicle),
146

starry-night effect,
64
–
65

stars, creation of,
xvii

State Children’s Health Insurance Program,
210

Steindl-Rast, David,
173

stem cells,
201
–
18

anti-abortion war and,
208
–
10

in anti-aging medicine,
199

availability of for research,
211
–
13

bioweapons and,
240

cancer and,
205

conflated with cloning,
214
–
15

defining life and,
209

efforts to change federal law on,
213
–
15

from embryos,
209

fetal,
208
–
10

hematopoietic,
205
–
6

hybridization of,
200

loss of research and researchers on in the US,
212
–
13

methods for obtaining,
207
–
8
,
214
–
15

organ transplants and,
204
–
5

parthenogenesis of,
208

politicization of,
206
–
17

potential of,
206

state legislation on,
211
–
13

StemCells Inc.,
216

Sterling, Bruce,
247

Steroid Control Act,
189
–
90
,
198

steroids,
183
–
200

for AIDS treatment,
196
–
97

anabolic and androgenic,
192

for cosmetic purposes,
190

DHEA,
186
,
198

early research on,
192
–
93

human growth hormone,
198

metabolic effects of,
190
–
92

misinformation about,
183
–
84
,
188
–
90
,
193
–
95