Silicon Valley, California is full of Transhumans who are using their vast accumulation of wealth to conquer death through their ever-increasing technology breakthroughs. People like Ray Kurzweil, head of engineering at Google, are leading the way.
Futurist and Transhuman Ray Kurzweil believes the Singularity will occur in 2029, and that immortality for man will be close behind. However, the state of science today is far from what it was 100 years ago. Today's science is rushed, untested and dangerous. The long-term effects are seldom studied.
Ray Kurzweil is head of engineering at Google, and is a Technocrat and Transhuman, believing that man will see immortality through science. With the full force of Google at his disposal, Kurzweil has accelerated his forecast of Singularity from 2045 to 2029.
Makukov and Fesenkov are regurgitating a story line that originated with a French cult leader, Claude Vorihon, who changed his name to Raël in 1974 after claiming to have been 'visited' by aliens. Sociologists classify Raelianism as a UFO religion with worshipful followers on several continents.
The human germline is in great jeopardy of permanent change as Technocrat scientists fiddle with life outside of any ethical debate on the wisdom of doing so.
The transhuman dream is to scientifically create life via genetic engineering and then apply it to themselves in hopes of achieving immortality. If it were not for their 100% funding from public sources, these scientists would be rubbing two sticks together in the woods trying to kindle a fire.
Istvan ran for President as the Transhuman Party Candidate; now he is running for governor in California as a Libertarian candidate. He is calling for Universal Basic Income for everyone.
Technocrats view humanity as just part of the machine, a bag full of randomized atoms that are no better than other species. This is seen in Harari's statement, "you come to realize there is no true self. There is just a complicated connection of biochemical connections, without a core. There is no authentic voice that lives inside you."
Technocrat scientists have no moral base to keep them from changing positions whenever it suits them. It won't be long before the floodgates of human experimentation takes off.
Germline genome editing is the most dangerous aspect of gene CRISPR technology. However, Technocrats generally shun ethics debates.