The Psychedelic Transhumanists. Michael Garfield September 29, 2009 Transhumanism in a fortune cookie: the familiar human world is just one point along a continuum of evolution, and we have an unprecedented capacity to participate in that process.
And yet, the future being as slippery as it is, there are as many visions for how this might occur as there are visionaries to guess at it. Computer scientists tend to have one transhumanism; genetic engineers, another. When Will We Be Transhuman? Seven Conditions for Attaining Transhumanism. The future is impossible to predict.
But that’s not going to stop people from trying. We can at least pretend to know where it is we want humanity to go. We hope that laws we craft, the technologies we invent, our social habits and our ways of thinking are small forces that, when combined over time, move our species towards a better existence. The question is, How will we know if we are making progress? Synthetic Biology. Techno-Optimism. How Drugs Helped Invent the Internet & The Singularity: Jason Silva on "Turning Into Gods" Techno-Optimism.