Perhaps it's just my perspective these days, but the MacArthur foundation, which gives out $500k grants to selected individuals it deems as geniuses, seems to be endorsing post-human developments. University of Washington in Seattle reports here that three of their own received grants this year. Of the three, one has improved drinking water, but the other two are have accomplished things directly related to post-evolutionary reconfiguring humans. One is researching roboticized prosthetics for people, and the other is developing technology to keep people in a state of suspended animation.
Suspended animation makes me think of the hive-boudn humans in The Matrix, or the 1978 suspended organ transplant donor farm in Coma.
No comments:
Post a Comment