The Trouble with Transhumanists

August 1, 2007 | Source: Newcity Chicago

“In my opinion, Mother Nature is a psychopathic bitch,* and she is out to get you,” nanotech researcher and engineer Tihamer Toth-Fejel comments offhand during his presentation on the potentials of future technology. “[You have to] adapt, change or die.”

His words are stern, but the audience hardly bats a collective eye. After all, he’s preaching to the choir — this is TransVision 2007, where transhumanists the world over gather to discuss issues such as immortality, space colonization and the emergence of the posthuman.

* An apparent paraphrase of “Mother nature, the bloody bitch,” a chapter title in Howard Bloom’s The Lucifer Principle.