Click to read Lifeboat’s Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies.
This article’s tone is almost giddy at the prospect of the human race enhancing it’s body and spreading throughout the universe but somehow it gives me a slight forboding; I’m fairly reserved on this matter. On one hand I love new technology, it’s exciting and keeps me creatively interested but I also find it distracting and kind of meaningless. Once you have the new thing it becomes the old thing as soon as another new thing appears on the horizon.
The spread of the human race throughout the universe has too many similarities with the behaviour of a disease for me to feel completely comfortable with it. Sure our population is growing but maybe not as much as we are led to think it is. There is still a lot of space and time where we are, and there’s still a whole lot we don’t know about our own bodies. The horizon’s pretty and mysterious but it never really gets any closer. Besides, every new pasture comes with a whole host of new problems and they’re maybe just as boring as the ones we face at the moment…
Why are we here? What is consciousness? How does the brain work?
Then again maybe our problems aren’t that boring it’s just that they can’t neccesserily be fixed using the same format the west uses to fix everything…economic growth.
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