in progress
I was thinking, as I stacked cases of copy paper at 4:30 in the morning, that there is an almost childlike, delicately sad aspect to transhumanism. Such bright views of transcending humanity toward something more evolved. An improved “next step”, soon — through technology. I do believe in it, to a degree. But. We are so barely human now. Have we mastered this? At times, I think we are just at the start of becoming human. I think we may be underestimating how much we have to do to be our best selves. Here and there we shine; so much more needs to be done though. I don’t think we can leapfrog to transhuman before we have perfected this stage. If we do fast-forward, I think we will miss something and come through incomplete.
And cases of copy paper are friggin heavy.