{"id":75880,"date":"2018-02-11T08:42:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/its-transhuman-life-but-not-as-we-know-it"},"modified":"2018-02-11T08:42:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:42:36","slug":"its-transhuman-life-but-not-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/its-transhuman-life-but-not-as-we-know-it","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s transhuman life, but not as we know it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-transhuman-life-but-not-as-we-know-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Transhumanism in the Sunday Times of London. 750,000 copies out today. My pres campaign in it briefly, as well as other transhumanists.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The new Netflix series Altered Carbon is set in a dystopian future where the super-rich can avail of technology that allows them to upload their consciousness to a new body every time they die, in effect giving them immortality.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s science fiction, of the kind previously explored in the novels of Philip K Dick and William Gibson, movies such as RoboCop and The Terminator, manga comics like Ghost in the Shell and even the Man-Machine album by German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk \u2014 but only until it comes to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Dublin writer Mark O\u2019Connell spent three years travelling the globe, meeting people who believe that they can actually achieve this by digitising their brains and transcending human flesh to become de facto cyborgs, impervious to\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/its-transhuman-life-but-not-as-we-know-it-068cq793f\">https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/its-transhuman-life-but-n...-068cq793f<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Transhumanism in the Sunday Times of London. 750,000 copies out today. My pres campaign in it briefly, as well as other transhumanists. The new Netflix series Altered Carbon is set in a dystopian future where the super-rich can avail of technology that allows them to upload their consciousness to a new body every time they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,269,42,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-life-extension","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75880","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}