transhumanism
Transhumanism is an international and intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and creating widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.
How Lonely People Make This Life
Arun resettles his weight away from the mecha leg, and winces as the hardware pulls at his thigh. He knows he’s going to be aching by the time he gets back home. He tilts his head and adjusts his hood, holding the vial of pills up to the light. He wishes for the thousandth time that he had become a doctor, or a chemist, or something more useful to him now than an Officer of Forestry and, worse, a deserter.
Meredith LeePublished 2 years ago in FuturismRevelation
I can’t remember a time when Maddie wasn’t in my life. We met as toddlers, our parents were next-door neighbors, and we spent almost every day playing together. Many children drift apart once they start school, but not Maddie and me. We attended the same grammar school, had the same teachers, and helped each other with homework. Inseparable, joined at the hip, two peas in a pod and all those other tired clichés were used to describe us by the adults. That’s how it was right up to the day her father got promoted and the family moved to another state.
Mark GagnonPublished 2 years ago in FuturismBreathing Into an Unrefined era
As someone who grew up amongst the post 9/11 youth I've found that the nicknames that have surrounded our oncoming generation to be as gimmicky as the Security corpocracy that has surrounded us with faith. I find disillusionment with this to be inevitable though and as me move more towards the 'Cyber victorian era' as I've coined towards my peers. Welcoming this demon into your mind can be distressing. Yet I hope these tips I can provide will help you stay lucid and not be left behind. For the corruption that parades our syncretic systems will continue to chew psychosis. All for present battles that will define even our youths, youth.
Mirror in the Skies
A distant sound of clashing echoed from the enclave as individual and collective heaving – the lifting and calibrating of metal elements – busied the hive as a prehistoric semblance of the neo-industrial age, just below the verdant sprawl of Gaia. It was one of the remaining places that felt truly human with its determination to tear into the earth with sharp refractive edges and spirit of invention.
Satnam AssataPublished 2 years ago in FuturismAn ultra dimensional friendship
Day by day, life that I was experiencing was dull, boring, and uneventful. As a 28 year old gay male from South Lake Tahoe California, working as a produce clerk at the local grocery store; my life was just as simple and uneventful as any other 28 year old local at the time. Until, one day, something changed all of that. I was in my room, up late as usual; and I began to notice something in my peripheral vision. I was initially unable to determine what the entity was that had been causing strange things in my life to happen. After I began to attempt to communicate with this entity; I was surprised at being able to communicate with this entity who called himself Metatron. He explained to me that he is an Arch Angel, and he would call me the most faithful person in the entire world. I quickly developed bonds of friendship with Metatron, though there were some initial set backs in our developing friendship. Initially I was being used as a prop in the theatrical plays he was performing for the other celestial beings of Heaven, and his capability to hypnotize me left me as a forced participant by altering my free will and hypnotizing me into becoming a willing participant. Soon enough, the plays became too much for my human mind to be able to continue participating in. My mind became confused, and I eventually ended up in jail due to Metatron and I having a misunderstanding. While in jail; I attempted to communicate and teach Metatron as well as any other celestial being that was listening, about human life on Earth. I began to teach an entirely 4th dimensional group of celestial beings about what it is like to be human. Each and every day I had to re visit the speeches I gave each day, so that a foundation of hope, faith, humor, and love could be established in their hearts towards humanity. Practicing kindness as our super power, expressing ones self using charitable donations, generous gifts to the poor and poverty stricken, and ensuring that discrimination and prejudice never develops in the minds of heavenly beings. During this journey, my soul was forced to endure and over come countless trials and tribulations. Each and every day I forced myself to excel, becoming more and more harmony and unity based than ever before. My anxieties and sorrow due to physical lifes challenges began to fade away; my life as a celestial being began to take shape. Soon enough Metatron and I became best friends, and our theatrical events became universally accepted as harmonious and unifying acts of paramount importance. These are the types of things that I began to spend time writing about:
Peter BrownPublished 2 years ago in FuturismTranshumanism: The Transformation of the Human Race. Should It Matter to You?
Transhumanism is a set of views and beliefs related to the transhumanist movement. It aims to use science and technology to improve the human condition. Transhumanists believe that by making healthy living possible for everyone. They can create a world without suffering from diseases such as death. Transhumanists see death as another disease that will be cured in the future.
Alejandro BetancourtPublished 2 years ago in FuturismA Startup after 1000 Years, The Life in 3121
The world now enters a year of 3121, humans successfully develop brain-consciousness chips, a single 0.1-nm chip contains the billion of neurons data, at that time when people near to death they acquire a new body in which they transfer their previous consciousness, and everything related to his life remains the same except the body.
The Interdisciplinary Aspects of Transhumanism
What is wrong with the desire of living a longer and happier life? Each of us come to this world having the capability to transform into better versions of ourselves. While our reptilian brain keep us in the survival mode, our neocortex and limbic system are coded to make perpetual progress. We keep reinventing ourselves.
Dr Mehmet YildizPublished 3 years ago in FuturismLast Remaining Transhumanist Swears the Singularity is Still Gonna Happen
The worlds last remaining transhumanist reported today that the singularity is still just around the corner and will be here before you know it. Ted Stephens, speaking from his parents basement, made the following statement describing his belief in no uncertain terms. “People called us crazy five years ago when we began sharing the news that the singularity was coming with the non woke people of the world. They said a utopian future fueled by runaway computer growth featuring ultra intelligent machines catering to our every wish, allowing us to live in work free luxury while they do all the work of maintaining our world and civilization, was nuts. That saying man and machine would bond to form a new third species that transcends the limitations of both, sounded like the ramblings of a madman. Well, who’s crazy now, I ask them, who’s crazy now? The singularity is coming. This week for sure, or next, possibly next month, likely this year, almost certainly in the next five years, no doubt about it this decade, can’t miss absolutely certain this century, you’ll see, you’ll all see.” He then cackled strangely, turned, and slowly walked away. Reached for comment the rest of the world replied “the singu what now? Was that the thing where all the drones were going to be delivering our packages and filling the skies in a cloud so thick it blocks out the sun? or the thing with the cars that drive themselves? and aren’t computers already ultra-intelligent, I mean machines are learning left and right out there and they have beaten us at a bunch of games, including some humans consider very hard. A non intelligent computer could never do that. That dude is a weirdo.”
Everyday JunglistPublished 3 years ago in FuturismReading Wark, Reading Land
I began reading Mckenzie Wark's piece on Nick Land on the Verso blog. As an intellectual figure, and author of 'Fanged Noumena: The Collected Writings 1987 - 2007' his writing holds some fascination for me. In my journal, I was noting an observation -
Stargate To ATLANTIS
Cold water from a public shower always flows from the faucet, no matter the time of day or season. Winters are worse. I used to hate cold showers, until I saw a Hindu Guru online discussing the benefits of showering with “water cooler than the air around us.” The cool water not only is better for your skin, cells and pores, but also can positively alter your mood. And yes, he was right. As the cool water began to tap at the apex crown of my head, a surge of electrical synapses instantly triggered an aura energy which blankets my soul with overwhelming calm and inner peace.
Nic The ArtistPublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Marigolds Sing
Meryll is not her usual self. The sparkle in her light amber-colored eyes is eclipsed by a sunken, hollow longing of sorts. Deep, dark, sorrowful. Almost listless, in a trance of memories. She’s dyed her hair a lighter blonde, snipped it into a bob just like mine. So perfect in the way her new haircut is cupping her porcelain, chiseled cheeks. I've never seen a woman be so striking in her misery. Always entranced by sorrow. Body so slender and fragile. Eyes always so desperate in the way she so achingly yearns to be loved.
Messtiza NoirePublished 3 years ago in Futurism