American political science commentator Francis Fukuyama once called transhumanism the world’s most dangerous idea. Whether this is true depends on your aspirations for society. But a brief article in Discover by a staffer with the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a transhumanist thinktank, Kyle Munkittrick, at least shows that society will be very different if transhumanism gets traction.
As you might expect with such a controversial philosophy, there are different schools of transhumanism. What Munkittrick offers is a diagnostic chart for recognising the transhumanist society when it arrives. Briefly, here are his criteria:
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