Tea Party Patriots of Eastland County invites you to meet Lynn Davenport of Richardson this Thursday, June 9, to learn more about transhumanism. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Big Dam Room of the Myrtle Wilks Community Center, 1498 West I 20, Cisco. Doors open at 6:00.

What is transhumanism?

Britannica Encyclopedia online says, “Transhumanism: social and philosophical movement devoted to promoting the research and development of robust human-enhancement technologies. Such technologies would augment or increase human sensory reception, emotive ability, or cognitive capacity as well as radically improve human health and extend human life spans. Such modifications resulting from the addition of biological or physical technologies would be more or less permanent and integrated into the human body.”

The term was coined by English biologist and philosopher Julian Huxley in his 1957 essay by that name. It has taken on different characteristics than those envisioned by Huxley. According to a 2017 article by Forbes Magazine, “Companies today are strategizing about future investments and technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, or growth around new business models. While many of these trends will make for solid investments for the next 5-10 years, fewer companies are considering the revolutionary convergence of disparate trends pulled from technology, behavioral and societal changes, and medical advances to understand how they will converge to transform society.  This transformation will be messy, complex, and sometimes scary, but signals already point to a future of humanity that will blur our identities into ‘transhumanism.’”

If implemented, how would transhumanism affect us? 

The World Economic Forum website says, “It is rooted in the belief that humans can and will be enhanced by the genetic engineering and information technology of today, as well as anticipated advances, such as bioengineering, artificial intelligence, and molecular nanotechnology. The result is an iteration of Homo sapiens enhanced or augmented, but still fundamentally human.”

This is an evolving movement, but one well worth discussing. Please join us Thursday to hear Lynn Davenport explain more.