{"id":75861,"date":"2018-02-10T01:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/altered-carbon-and-tvs-new-wave-of-transhumanism"},"modified":"2018-02-10T01:42:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T09:42:32","slug":"altered-carbon-and-tvs-new-wave-of-transhumanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/altered-carbon-and-tvs-new-wave-of-transhumanism","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Altered Carbon\u2019 and TV\u2019s New Wave of Transhumanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dhFM8akm9a4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But Altered Carbon is only the latest bit of transhumanism to hit TV recently. From Black Mirror\u2019s cookies and Philip K. Dick\u2019s Electric Dreams\u2019 mind-invading telepaths and alien bodysnatchers to Star Trek: Discovery\u2019s surgical espionage and Travelers\u2019 time-jumping consciousness, the classic tropes of body-hopping, body-swapping, and otherwise commandeering has exploded in an era on the brink, one in which longevity technology is accelerating more rapidly than ever, all while most people still trying to survive regular threats to basic corporeal health and safety.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nobody wants these dumb meat-sack bodies anymore. Now TV is asking if what replaces them will be any better.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/altered-carbon-transhumanism-tv\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/altered-carbon-transhumanism-tv\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Altered Carbon is only the latest bit of transhumanism to hit TV recently. From Black Mirror\u2019s cookies and Philip K. Dick\u2019s Electric Dreams\u2019 mind-invading telepaths and alien bodysnatchers to Star Trek: Discovery\u2019s surgical espionage and Travelers\u2019 time-jumping consciousness, the classic tropes of body-hopping, body-swapping, and otherwise commandeering has exploded in an era on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,269,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75861","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}