I have chosen in the poll UBI but of, course, a changed and sharing economic regime is essential for its proper funding. So I do also want to know about your views re Futurist Economics.
"...would be us, with laser eyes and clamp hands." An interesting difference.
Would we still be guided by today's [flawed] ethical norms? Could transhumanism become compulsory—improve, or else...?
Olaf Stapledon, I think, wrote dystopian Sci-Fi about a society where perfectly functioning members and organs were amputated and replaced by artificial implants.
I have chosen in the poll UBI but of, course, a changed and sharing economic regime is essential for its proper funding. So I do also want to know about your views re Futurist Economics.
"...alternatively the distinction between machine and organism will dissolve as cyborg trans-humans become normal)."
This is the real danger and I am bothered about the glib acceptance of this possibility.
We have created a new species in nature but we have the strange weakness that we allow our creations to become our masters and oppressors.
Hello Austin,
"...would be us, with laser eyes and clamp hands." An interesting difference.
Would we still be guided by today's [flawed] ethical norms? Could transhumanism become compulsory—improve, or else...?
Olaf Stapledon, I think, wrote dystopian Sci-Fi about a society where perfectly functioning members and organs were amputated and replaced by artificial implants.
Agreed, the future depends on what we do or don't do here and now.