A new transhumanist magazine , H+ , has just hit the ether and is compact with stories about implantable data engineering , longevity drug , and the importance of set for a near future where humans take ascendance of their own evolution . The binding is of a hot CGI infant sporting reprogrammable makeup and a lip rivet that is also her PDA . Why does this hereafter attend almost on the button like the future tense that we were predicting back in 1992 ? partially that ’s because the magazine was created by R.U. Sirius , author and co - founding father of 90s futurist mag Mondo 2000 , whose 20 - year - former ideas about a posthuman tomorrow still find relevant . Is futurism stuck in the past ? A better question might be whether tomorrow has but receded into the distance . Though futurist Ray Kurzweil ’s Holocene bookproclaimed that “ the uniqueness is near,”and H+ promises us implantable cell phones , endless life , and AIs as if they ’re right around the corner , we ’ve been wait for these developments to come to realization for some time now . It ’s not really seem as if the near future holds posthuman babes in solar hoodies . That futurity seemed just as near in the mid-90s , which state us more about the endurance of our desire for it than it does about its likelihood of come to pass . Sirius ’ ideas are still fresh because multitude still require them to befall . So our hopes for the future have n’t changed much , but the timeline for that future tense has . We wo n’t have longevity drugs in clock time to extend our life , or the life of the futurists we have intercourse . We are n’t run to become bionic man in the year 2000 . Maybe these thing will come to overhaul in a century or more , unless the futurist who built thepopulation collapse scenario game Superstructare right wing and humanity does n’t make it to 2100 . With the so - called uniqueness see farther and farther off , it ’s time to fix for the substantial hereafter . A future where we might not become glamourous , but we might lento figure out how to prevent a few more diseases that mutate our genome . Maybe we wo n’t heal death , but we might heal a few kinds of cancer . Maybe we wo n’t have implantable peregrine phones , but we might calculate out how to bring most of the African continent online . I guess what I ’m saying is that the future might look more like a individual in jeans rather than a hottie in face jewelry . Dream about the hottie all you desire , but contrive to wear jeans . you may learn the entire first issue of H+ forfree online here .
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