Bostrom versus Transcendence
Nick Bostrom takes on the facts, the fictions and the speculations in the movie Transcendence:

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[video] "Transhuman", featuring Sandberg and Bostrom
Transhuman, a 20-minute Dutch documentary about Anders Sandberg, is now available online. From Sandberg's blog:
Here is the chance of see my beetle collection, my grubby kitchen, and an absolutely stunning combination between a supercomputer center and an oxford library. Oh, and some discussion about transhumanism and the meaning of life too.
The documentary features Nick Bostrom at 9:23-10:32 and at 19:28-19:37. There's also a cameo appearance of Eliezer Yudkowsky, Carl Shulman, Anna Salamon, Toby Ord, William MacAskill, David Pearce and Stuart Armstrong.
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