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petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Transhumanism is the next step in evolution
Wat
Glasses/contact lenses, pacemakers, insulin pumps, cochlear implants, prosthetic limbs.
Some stuff does help us and isn’t done purely for evil. It is the monkey murdering brain chips you gotta worry about. And maybe some of the listed stuff being taken over by monopolistic corporations like the glasses industry.
Mobile phones, as well. Thing is, though, I wouldn’t describe a mobile phone as “the next step in evolution”—it would seem downright silly to, even.
Do people think of cybernetics when they think of transhumanism? I can see the continuum, but I think of transhumanism as being about more fundamental changes
Yeah theres no fucking way I’m ever getting body mods, even if they come out
I would rather not have to charge my fucking limbs
2000 masses - Be careful with the internet, honey, what goes there does not dissapear!
2025 masses - So I dropped my twerkin on insta and got lit feedback, gotta feed incels on onlyfans and then…
*Glass shatters*
“Hand Grip™ is unavailable right now; system updating…”
It’s “a” step, not “the next” step. Evolution has no direction except “different”.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Transhumanism is a big theme in Cyberpunk, it just doesn’t necessarily mean that Cyberpunk is correct about how common voluntary cybernetic augmentations are going to be.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Oh, I’m aware. It’s just, uh… that evolution statement taken as a given is something I would expect to hear from someone who’s maybe a bit too in love with the cyberpunk genre.