Transhumanism the ultimate meeting point of man and tech?

Mobile technology has enhanced our lives to a degree we couldn’t have fathomed even thirty years ago.

Not only have we created pocket-sized devices that show us maps when we get lost, play us music and videos when we get bored, and keep in contact with anyone, anywhere, but we are starting to adapt mobile tech to the human form. Wearable cameras and screens such as Google Glass are slowly creeping into the mainstream, and will unquestionably be part of our daily tech lives sooner than later. What’s more, we as humans are beginning to adapt ourselves to technology. Augmented and virtual reality is increasingly allowing us to complement the world we see with extra information that allows us to manipulate our environments to our benefit and create entire new ones to escape into.

It must be asked: how much further can we go in merging the tech world and the real world, and ourselves with the devices we use?

Transhumanism is a philosophical movement that advocates for the transformation of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology. Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as their ethical limitations. The main idea is that, with technology, human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from what we are now able to do that we become “post-human.”