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Our Transhumanist, Sci-Fi Future Has Arrived. But You’re Not Going To Like It

Technological progress isn’t ushering in an era of prosperity and bliss. It’s inaugurating an era of demonic, inhuman evils.

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It doesn’t take a prophet or a philosopher to see that technological progress isn’t leading us into some futuristic utopia. Quite the opposite: it’s amplifying and instrumentalizing the worst aspects of human nature — for domination, for power, for the indulgence of our appetites, above all for mastery over the created order, including over death itself.

The desire for immortality is of course what’s behind the transhumanist movement. For as much as our cultural discourse these days focuses on transgenderism, that’s a relatively minor aspect of the larger ideology of transhumanism, to which many of our tech elites in Silicon Valley, the people who are building out artificial intelligence, openly subscribe.

That being the case, one of the things we need to wrap our heads around as we march further into the era of AI and mass digital technology, is that everything that can be done with technology will be done.

That doesn’t just mean we might find a cure for cancer, or invent a source of renewable clean energy. It also means the transhumanist dream of immortality will turn into a demonic, inhuman nightmare. Forget about transgender medical mutilation, as evil as that is. I’m talking about things like the development of artificial wombs, human-animal chimeras, and clones grown in a lab for the purpose of harvesting organs and blood.

These aren’t things that might happen in some sci-fi future, they’re beginning to happen now. Bryan Johnson, the Silicon Valley tycoon who believes he can reverse the aging process through technology — and is experimenting on himself, in a........

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