{"id":10539,"date":"2014-04-03T17:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10539"},"modified":"2014-04-03T17:58:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:58:36","slug":"jason-silvas-latest-to-be-human-is-to-be-transhuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/jason-silvas-latest-to-be-human-is-to-be-transhuman","title":{"rendered":"Jason Silva\u2019s Latest: To Be Human Is to Be Transhuman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FN57u7-x75w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The term \u2018transhuman\u2019 inevitably (for me) summons grotesque visions of humans and machines merging into a Borg-like race bent on eradicating biological imperfection. These creatures\u2019 cold rationality calls it an evolutionary improvement, but to my admittedly backward biological brain, it\u2019s a terrible thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d prefer a little less HR Giger in my future, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>In his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ShotsOfAwe\">Shots of Awe<\/a> video short, Jason Silva says forget about Hollywood\u2019s nightmare scenarios. Humans are, by definition, transhuman. We ceaselessly invent and reinvent what it means to be human. We circumvent biological evolution with technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/04\/01\/jason-silvas-latest-to-be-human-is-to-be-transhuman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub The term \u2018transhuman\u2019 inevitably (for me) summons grotesque visions of humans and machines merging into a Borg-like race bent on eradicating biological imperfection. These creatures\u2019 cold rationality calls it an evolutionary improvement, but to my admittedly backward biological brain, it\u2019s a terrible thought. I\u2019d prefer a little less HR Giger [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}