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Silicon Valley investment is increasingly turning to human biology. It makes sense: There’s certainly a lot of money to be made. One of Y Combinator’s early bio investments, Ginkgo Bioworks, has already gone on to raise hundreds of millions more to fund its custom microbe-design business. Health has become a focus of tech industry luminaries, from Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, who view the body as the next big thing to hack. If the body is merely a machine, then surely millions of research dollars will one day succeed in making mortal concerns like death optional.
or something more?
Transhumanism is a class of philosophies of life that seek the continuation and acceleration of the evolution of intelligent life beyond its currently human form and human limitations by means of science and technology, guided by life-promoting principles and values. – Max More (1990)
All the while they have us at each others throats over our identities. The point being we not be able to afford any of it but they can.
originally posted by: Abysha
a reply to: BotheLumberJack
"Oh no, I've been hacked" will soon take on a deeper, more personal meaning.