On Transhumanism, and technophobia

Here I talk about my ideas of technology, and those who are terrified of it.
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Science & Technology

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• transhuman
• transhumanism
• singularity
• ray kurzweil
• doctor steel
• technology
• nanotech
• robotics
• biotechnology.

[aquario008]

0:59 "if there was a technocaust it would result in a 90% extinction of humanity" - not necessarily true, keep in mind that about 50-55% of today's world population lives well below the poverty line of western post-industrial technologically advanced nations (with another 25% at just about our poverty line). these people live with little if any recourse to what we consider "vital technology" in the West - they don't have water purification stations, little if any electrical grids, no roads, cars

[Xeletoph]

@aquario008 Sure those guys live without clean food and water. But in third world countries without a clean water supply and a strong electric grid diseases like typhoid fever, malaria, diphtheria, polio, E-Coli, cholera, AIDS and other ailments are far more prevalent. In high-tech nations, most of those diseases are under control to some degree or another. For those nations w/high tech, if there was a technocaust, 90% would die.

[aquario008]

@Xeletoph my point is that less advanced nations (i.e. less dependent on technology) make the bulk of today's Earth population. it's also true that they're more vulnerable to diseases (but remember that power IS in the numbers). the other (secondary) point is that transhumanism probably won't be possible until all these "less advanced nations" will become more technologically advanced (and of course, unless we destroy ourselves as a species in the process or before we even start implementing it)

[Xeletoph]

@aquario008 technology has a trickle down effect; it starts off high end and then quickly becomes available for the general public. Transhumanism could infact 'upgrade' as it were, the entire world. 3rd world countries becoming industrial nations, industrial nations turning infocratic, infocratic nations transform into technocratic. We're on the 5th level of human development - the horizon of the technology human, a step up from industrial. We have to accept and embrace this change.

[M4napalm]

can i be someone who advocates transhumanism and still smoke? :x im kinda swimming upstream for the goal of immortality with my bad habits like smoking cigarettes...eh, ill just replace my organs :)

[Xeletoph]

@M4napalm Sure, you can still advocate transhumanism and still smoke if you want to. I'm sure you use google anyhow, and smoking cigs isn't putting a wrench in that, is it? As for living long enough to obtain immortality - I suppose cancer sticks are like pissing up a rope - but we all choose our own poisons. Who am I to judge?

[Xeletoph]

@finaman12 I hate loathe and despise oligarchy in all of its disgusting flavors, colors, and textures. I know this is our reality. I think the idea of one world gov't is a good idea - we can achieve much if all humanity gathers under one banner, one language, one currency, one government, one species, one humanity. But the current oligarchical power structures make this idea one of control and corruption rather then the concept of unification I'm suggesting.

End oligarchy. Bring on technocracy.

[xamot27]

good vid!!!

[M4napalm]

again, thank you Xeletoph...we need more of these videos than those posted by ADDTV and others that sound like bad rip-offs of Esoteric Agenda and Kymatica

i do enjoi those movies in some aspects but can be very misleading

i suggest Zeitgeist Addendum for all those watching this ^_^

[PinkProgram]

@Xeletoph lol, I usually say you can lead an ape to an idea but you can't make it think ^_^