This page highlights potential partnerships for the Vital Syllabus project.
This page will be revised as plans improve and in the light of actual experience.
H+Pedia
Vital Syllabus will fulfil part of what was initially foreseen as the mission statement for H+Pedia:
“H+Pedia is a project to spread accurate, accessible, non-sensational information about transhumanism, futurism, radical life extension and other emerging technologies, and their potential collective impact on humanity. H+Pedia is also an opportunity for unique collaborations across the transhumanist community.”
H+Pedia is expected to remain as an important project in its own right. Vital Syllabus pages will contain pointers to resources within H+Pedia, when these resources provide the best coverage of particular topics. Indeed, the Vital Syllabus project could provide an incentive for pages within H+Pedia to be improved and further developed.
Differences between H+Pedia and Vital Syllabus include:
- H+Pedia accepts all sorts of new material, organised in numerous different ways, whereas Vital Syllabus has a clear, definite architecture
- The content within Vital Syllabus undergoes a review process before being accepted
- The ambition of Vital Syllabus is in some ways narrower than H+Pedia: it focuses on skills and principles, rather than on facts that have general interest.
Transhumanist Studies
The Transhumanist Studies initiative shares with Vital Syllabus a desire to provide high-quality educational material that benefits from transhumanist insights. Differences between the projects include:
- The content of Transhumanist Studies includes large portions of new material specially created for these courses, whereas Vital Syllabus highlights, where possible, links to good material that already exists
- Vital Syllabus addresses a wider range of topics
- Vital Syllabus mandates that resources are fully accessible, rather than being behind a paywall.
Other partnerships or potential partnerships
(To be added)
