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So there's a great line by Shakespeare
in which he says, "We know what we are.
We know not what we may be."
And in the age of accelerating technologies
in which we extend the cognitive reach of our minds,
the perimeters of our humanness, with these extensions of self,
these exoskeletons, these technological scaffoldings--
you know, the wings of our aircrafts
and the signals traveling through our smartphones,
sending our thoughts, electrified
at the speed of light, across oceans of sky--
we redefine and extend what it means to be human.
Edward O. Wilson says we have actually decommissioned
natural selection, and now we must look deep within ourselves
and decide what we wish to become.
We are now the chief agents of evolutions.
We have reverse-engineered the software of biology
and are about to rewire and upgrade it,
redefine what it is to be a Homo sapien.
Juan Enriquez uses the term Homo evolutis,
the being that evolves itself, that transforms itself, right?
Ray Kurzweil-- we didn't stay in the caves.
We haven't stayed on the planet.
Biology-- just another membrane to be transcended.
You know, Marvin Minsky used to say,
will robots inherit the Earth?
Yes, they will.
But they will be our children.
You know, I love this idea, because we hear the term
"transhumanism," and what it means
to be human is to be transhuman.
We are the species that transforms and transcends.
We never stop.
We always did.
It's what we are.
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