Category: Cyborgs

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Thoughts on Transhumanism: Both the Newest Movement and the Oldest

  Transhumanism is a modern movement based on the belief that humans can and should develop beyond their current intellectual and physical limitations, such as aging or sub-optimal intelligence, via advances in science and technology.  One of the most well-known and intriguing objectives of the movement is to “solve death” by merging people with technology, either via uploading minds to computers or by rejuvenating humans biomolecularly so that they don’t age.  Transhumanists include Max More,...

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You are a Cyborg

I am willing to bet that 95% of you reading this have your smartphone within arm’s reach or in your hand at this very moment.  Only 10 years ago, hardly anyone owned a smartphone, and today, 2.3 billion people have one or more of these multi-functional handheld devices.  And we don’t only own them; we are so connected to our smartphones in so many ways that some might say we have functionally merged with them,...