The Misery of Transhumanism

Face it: all the ideas presented in the book “Homo Ex Machina”, published in 2023, are already old! Be it gene editing, cryonics, longevity: people were already philosophizing about them in the 1990s. For me, it was a motivation during my studies to contribute to the implementation of these ideas. But to this day, most of these ideas have remained just ideas. Legal hurdles and technical difficulties stand in the way of implementation. 

In fact, the only future technology that has already been implemented is artificial intelligence.

The difficulty with gene editing is that germline therapy is banned in most countries around the world. However, certain diseases cannot be cured with somatic gene therapy. 

I recently wrote about longevity in the Prudentia blog. There are ideas here too, but nothing has been implemented yet.

I have my doubts about the feasibility of cryonics (resuscitation after death). 

The only biomedical idea of the transhumanists that could soon become reality is the brain-computer interface.

Claus D. Volko

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