Transhumanist’s Nightmare

A Dark Version of the Glorious Future

I have always viewed with misunderstanding and suspicion those who oppose radical technological progress. The benefits of new technologies always seemed to trivially outweigh the costs and risks to me. And it seemed that being a techno-optimist meant being on the “right side of history.” However, strategically, technologies are stagnating, and it appears that dreams of space colonization, biotechnological augmentation of humans, and the discovery of new energy sources will not be realized by default. In nearly all areas…