Transhuman

The velocity of AI development is ever increasing; today's capabilities will double in 12 months and re-double thereafter in 12-18 month cycles. When an AI avatar can routinely fool a human into believing that it is also human, the door to global delusion is wide open. Technocrats build because they can, not because it is smart to do so.

Once junk science is accepted as truth, its application knows no boundary, whether climate change, biodiversity, 'earth science' or Sustainable Development. Junk science is a scourge to mankind and the planet.

The fouled ethics of creating synthetic human DNA will not deter them from going ahead with it. Technocrats invent because they can. However, Transhumanists are vitally interested in creating super-men who can conquer immortality.

Mainstream scientists and surgeons say that brain transplants into donor bodies is absolutely impossible, but that doesn't deter Transhumanist dreamers in the slightest. Nevertheless, hundreds of people have paid hundreds of thousands to have their brains frozen upon death, in the hope of being transplanted in the future.

Facebook is only one of several companies racing to create human/machine interfaces that will merge flesh and silicon. Technocrats build because they can, not because it is wise to do so.

Transhumans are anticipating great breakthroughs in technology that will change the nature of man, including adding immortality and omniscience. Still, trillions will be spent before they give up.

Scientists at publicly-funded universities are racing to create human-like artificial intelligence that will displace the humans who funded them in the first place. Ethical and moral debate is entirely missing in this field.