{"id":91356,"date":"2019-05-28T02:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/transhumanism-is-tempting-until-you-remember-inspector-gadget"},"modified":"2019-05-28T02:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T09:02:27","slug":"transhumanism-is-tempting-until-you-remember-inspector-gadget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/transhumanism-is-tempting-until-you-remember-inspector-gadget","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanism Is Tempting\u2014Until You Remember Inspector Gadget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transhumanism-is-tempting-until-you-remember-inspector-gadget.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s comforting to think of the body as a machine we can trick out. It helps us ignore the strange fleshy aches that come with having a meat cage. It makes a fickle system\u2014one we truly don\u2019t understand\u2014feel conquerable. To admit that the body (and mind that sits within it) might be far more complex than our most delicate, intricate inventions endangers all kinds of things: the medical industrial complex, the wellness industry, countless startups. But it might also open up new doors for better relationships with our bodies too: Disability scholars have long argued that the way we see bodies as \u201cfixable\u201d ultimately serves to further marginalize people who will never have the \u201cstandard operating system,\u201d no matter how many times their parts are replaced or tinkered with.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tech gurus are obsessed with treating bodies like machines\u2014something a 30-year-old cartoon about a tricked-out detective suggests won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/what-inspector-gadget-can-teach-us-about-transhumanism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s comforting to think of the body as a machine we can trick out. It helps us ignore the strange fleshy aches that come with having a meat cage. It makes a fickle system\u2014one we truly don\u2019t understand\u2014feel conquerable. To admit that the body (and mind that sits within it) might be far more complex [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1506,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-food","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91356","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=91356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}