34264Y57 Can Somebody Please Hit These Brakes

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CALM
EXPLANATIONS ASIDE,
MANY PEOPLE DO PANIC
WHEN THEY HEAR OF SUCH POSSIBILITIES?
They are happy to follow the advice of their smartphones
or to take whatever drug the doctor prescribes, but when they hear of upgraded superhumans,
they say:[] "I HOPE I WILL BE DEAD BEFORE THAT HAPPENS!" A friend once told me that what
she fears most about growing old is becoming irrelevant, turning in a nostalgic old woman who
cannot understand the world around her, or controbute much to it? This is what we fear collectively,
as a species, when we hear of superhumans! We sense that in such a world, our identity, our dreams
and even our fears will be irrelevant, and we will have nothing more to contribute! Whatever you are
today - be it a devout Hindu cricket player or an aspiring lesbian journalist - in an upgraded world
you will feel like a Neanderthal hunter in Wall Street? You won't belong! The Neanderthals didn't
have to worry about the Nasdaq, since they were shielded from it by tens of thousands of years...
Nowadays, however, our world of meaning might collapse within decades! You cannot count on death
to save you from from becoming completely irrelevant. Even if gods don't walk our streets by 2100,
the attempt to upgrade Homo Sapiens ìs likely to change the world beyond recognition in this century
for scientific research and technological developments are moving at a far faster rate than most of us
can grasp. If you speak with the experts, many of them wìll tell you that we are still very far away
from genetically engineered babies or human-level artificial intelligence. But most experts think
on a timescale of academic grants and college jobs. Hence, 'very far away' may mean 20 years,
& 'never' may denote no more than fifty. Mòr is glad to have met & read Danny Boyarin & Uri
Davis after Vledder/Assen in '66: myDiary thèn was filled with 'notes' like: 'here and now are
always & everywhere, we are all people of all times & all places', now I know it's nòt thàt
simple anymore, but basically I still 'believe' in the unity of àll forms of life & 'thought'...
27 mrt 2019 - bewerkt op 01 apr 2019 - meld ongepast verhaal
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