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Man is becoming Overman, by Evolution, Genetic Engineering, and Transhuman integration between Man and Machine.
What will you become?
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Year +6000
Mankind develops into a “Type 2 Civilization”. Although I believe this will happen much sooner, perhaps by +3000?
People have always predicted how the future and technology will play out.
Most of them aren’t right.
We were supposed to be living on the moon with flying cars by now.
Its far better to just see what happens than try to be a prophet of sorts.
I will probably become myself but slightly different from the myself i am now and the myself i see myself becoming.
It’s possible it will just play out differently. We predicted flying cars and got internet instead. Nobody could have predicted that.
Actually, some people did predict the internet.
The U.S Department of Defenses’ Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) first planned it as a means of military communication called ARPANET.
People have predicted just about everything. Statistically most end up being wrong.
Yep. We should postpone this post, save it untill there are post humans.
Transhumanism annoys me.
And then there are people like Ray Kurzweil who have made some mistakes next to some absolutely remarkable insights.
Or what about Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Edward Bellamy, published 1887):
Further, what I think we are all missing is that “prediction” in these terms is not prophetical but commercial: we are selling ideas to the future. Hence Star Trek and cell phones. Look in any modern architecture magazine (I prefer Architectural Record) and you will see “futurism” in abundance. Only, it’s not called futuristic but modern. Science fiction is a massive advertising campaign to the market of tomorrow.
You think cyborgs are too distant of a concept? We have pacemakers, hearing aids, powered exoskeletons, life support and this wonderful study involving Kevin Warwick (from the wiki on Warwick and Project Cyborg):
Transhumanism
Hey, make posts like:
"Yep. We should postpone this post, save it untill there are post humans.
Transhumanism annoys me."
in light of the above info (seeing as we are already arguably transhuman) is just asking for it. Or does transhumanism strike you as dishonorable in some way?
What’s your problem with transhumanism, SG?
You’re not one of them anarcho-primitivists, like Joker, are you? 
No, I have no problem with technological advancement I just don’t care for it when people start living for the machine.
I guess i’m the type of person that thinks that a large portion of humanity is too short sighted to understand the ramifications of a lot of things that people wish too change about humanity.
There’s a reason why humans are the way that they are, there’s reasoning behind the “weaknesses” we have.
To become something new, a new entity, and any type of Evolution, requires an ideal, a dream.
Do you have a dream to fulfill, Stoic Guardian? Or will you live a meaningless, purposeless, human, all too human life?
There are many of us alive who want to do something noteworthy, at least in our own imaginations.
There is no potential to anything without dreams.
Dreams are the fuel for survival.
I don’t see human life as meaningless or purposeless, and you don’t need too become a cyborg or change yourself with genetic engineering in order to have dreams.
Yet you’re still evolving, the question is, into what? What entity are you becoming, will your children become?
Unless you actually want to die, I don’t see why you wouldn’t hope for the transhumanistic vision. If you’re afraid about being wrong, death seems like a heavier penalty to worry about.
You have nothing to lose by shifting your thoughts to transhumanism. Death is the only other option.
Overcome.
This might be the problem. I think I’m feeling similarly to Stoic Guardian. So much looking to the future, a future that far exceeds our time, seems like a misplaced hope. While we spend our time longing for these visions of the future, what do we become right now? What do we miss out on here and now?
I feel that it’s more meaningful to focus on the present and the near present than grand visions of the future. One step at a time.
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Telekinesis.
Teleportation is not long in coming.
Everything you think is impossible, is already outdated. The question is not whether you will become left behind and outdated, but how far you will fall behind?
Can you Evolve faster than others? Can you become what you will, right now?
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I agree with about the present. However, Ray Kurzweil talks of the singularity happening by 2045. Surely this could happen within your lifetime. Once computers surpass human intelligence, there’s no telling how many problems will be solved.
It could be a false hope, but death offers no hope other than heavenly considerations.