{"id":239918,"date":"2026-06-29T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/transhumanism-101-with-natasha-vita-more"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:03:20","slug":"transhumanism-101-with-natasha-vita-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/transhumanism-101-with-natasha-vita-more","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanism 101 with Natasha Vita-More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transhumanism-101-with-natasha-vita-more.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/196541172-singularity1on1-transhumanism-natasha-vita-more.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>In 2012, transhumanism was still being called \u201cthe most dangerous idea in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years later, we\u2019re casually debating brain-computer interfaces, radical life extension, and what it even means to stay \u201chuman\u201d in an age of AI. The fringe became the headline.<\/p>\n<p>So I went back into the Singularity. FM archive and pulled my conversation with Dr. Natasha Vita-More, often called the first female philosopher of transhumanism. We recorded \u201cTranshumanism 101\u201d to cut through the fear and the ideology and get to the actual ideas.<\/p>\n<p>We covered a lot:<\/p>\n<p>Why Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein still shapes how we react to enhancement technology, two centuries later. Where the panic comes from (Bill Joy, Fukuyama) and why most of it misses the point. The real differences between transhuman, posthuman, and cyborg. And critical thinking as a core tenet, not a footnote, of the whole project.<\/p>\n<p>The line that stuck with me, and that lands even harder today: \u201cGet creative about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/transhumanism-101-with-natasha-vita-more\">Continue reading \u201cTranshumanism 101 with Natasha Vita-More\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, transhumanism was still being called \u201cthe most dangerous idea in the world.\u201d Fourteen years later, we\u2019re casually debating brain-computer interfaces, radical life extension, and what it even means to stay \u201chuman\u201d in an age of AI. The fringe became the headline. So I went back into the Singularity. FM archive and pulled my [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,269,6,64,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239918","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}