A future world with technologies such as cryonics, whole brain emulation, and interstellar colony ships is the vision of a positive future by Robin Hanson, which is the basis for this art piece created by the artist Yann Minh.

About the scientist : Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from Caltech, master’s degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years experience as a research programmer, at Lockheed and NASA.

About the artist : Yann Minh, belongs to the first French artists who built immersive multimedia installations. Born in 1957, he is a video, multimedia, digital and new media artist since 1979. He is also a writer of cyberpunk science fiction, and founder of the Noonautes, a neo-cyberpunk movement.

Child of television, comic strips and science fiction, his work is inspired by Nam June Paik, Giger, Druillet, Moebius, Philip K. Dick and Marshall Mc Luhan.