Transhumanism”. In it Dr. David Eagleman talks about how not only can we augment human senses with fantastic new abilities (like to “see” heat and electromagnetic patterns), but how we’ll even be able to build machines that think too.
There is a line in his thinking that one can glean from the article: on one side of the line are enhancements and augmentations to the human experience which are startling and amazing and which will transform our societies: even more radical life extension will be in the cards quite soon (for those who can afford it).
Like I told Steve Bannon when we talked Transhumanism: For all intents and purposes we already have radical life extension. In the years of the Roman Empire, average life expectancy was between 18 and 25 and most people would die before age 11, from something like diarrhea. This was just normal and nobody thought it would ever change.
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Director, Simon Center for American Studies
Joseph is the director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and AWC Family Foundation Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Irish-born academic Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), a fellow and tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford. John Chillingworth / Stringer / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Walter Hooper first discovered Lewis’s writings as a university student in 1954. Today, at 89, he is the world’s foremost Lewis scholar.
Mr. Hooper’s grasp of Lewis’s work he has edited two dozen collections of his writings and edited and annotated four volumes of his personal letters is staggering.