{"id":76941,"date":"2019-10-14T10:41:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=76941"},"modified":"2019-10-30T00:41:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T07:41:14","slug":"the-fork-in-the-road-for-the-future-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-fork-in-the-road-for-the-future-of-humanity","title":{"rendered":"The Fork in the Road for the Future of Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 25 September 2019, Steve Fuller gave a Codex Talk at the Royal Society of London, commemorating the \u2018world\u2019s top 50 innovators\u2019 on the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci authored the \u2018Codex\u2019 in question, which is a notebook of his thoughts, including a drawing of \u2018Vitruvian Man\u2019, which begins Fuller\u2019s talk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018fork in the road for the future of humanity\u2019 refers to <em>transhumanism<\/em> and <em>posthumanism<\/em>, which Fuller treats as projecting radically alternative visions for the human condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>You can watch the sixteen-minute video on YouTube:<\/p>\n\n<iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3_aMErGGDPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 September 2019, Steve Fuller gave a Codex Talk at the Royal Society of London, commemorating the \u2018world\u2019s top 50 innovators\u2019 on the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci authored the \u2018Codex\u2019 in question, which is a notebook of his thoughts, including a drawing of \u2018Vitruvian Man\u2019, which begins [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1522],"tags":[2165,3609],"class_list":["post-76941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-innovation","tag-posthumanism","tag-transhumansim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76941","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76941"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97975,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76941\/revisions\/97975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}