(EF41) Can We Handle the Responsibility?
Humanity holds in its hands the next phase of evolution — technologies to upgrade our bodies, minds and lives. But this time, we’re in control, for better or for worse.
Humanity holds in its hands the next phase of evolution — technologies to upgrade our bodies, minds and lives. But this time, we’re in control, for better or for worse.
Humanity stands at the edge of an abyss. Behind is fractured civilization, inequality, infighting, and tribalism. Ahead is transhumanism, where we fully become one with technology and release our final stronghold — actually being human.
There are unintended consequences of telling powerful stories and letting humans with agendas interpret those ideas.
Even if we reach the transhumanism pinnacle — no work, no suffering, no dying — will our lives really be fulfilled?
One of the core weaknesses of human nature is our propensity to believe story over reality or facts
We are upgrading ourselves with technology in a maligned effort to make the next evolution of humanity infallible. But can you build perfection on top of faulty code?
(EF41) The stories our tribes tell tap into the core human emotions and basic desires we all seek. — The Evolve Faster Podcast (Season 2, Episode 2)
Season Two, Episode Two: Technology is like a powerful drug that can either improve you or make you miserable and dependent. Is it our evolutionary fate that we will become superhuman? Or is the codebase of human nature inherently too fallible for the story of transhumanism to end well?
The Big Question driving Episode EF41 is … why are humans so fallible?
The doors to our collective past are closing for good, and the doors to the future are opening into darkness.
Few people have the guts to tear up the social contract they were handed at birth.
Have you ever had the guts to ask, why do we have all this stuff instead of some other stuff?