{"id":13941,"date":"2018-11-19T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=13941"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:38:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:38:39","slug":"the-movement-towards-a-transhumanist-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=13941","title":{"rendered":"the movement towards a transhumanist society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in Psychology Today, Dr Massimo Pigliucci, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of New York-Lehman College, believes that there is a necessary discussion society must have before we introduce\u2014or even think of developing\u2014such technologies: \u201cit is perfectly acceptable \u2014 indeed necessary \u2014 for individuals and society to have a thorough discussion about what limits are or are not acceptable when it comes to the ethical issues raised by the use of technologies.\u201d What\u2019s more, observers and economists note the movement towards a transhumanist society will exacerbating the gulf between the rich and the poor. Transhumanist technologies are expensive and will be for the foreseeable future, which inevitably means that the elites might pull even further ahead of the rest of the world, much of which is too poor for even basic healthcare. Complete madness?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/the-transhuman-revolution-what-is-it-and-how-we-can-prepare-for-its-arrival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in Psychology Today, Dr Massimo Pigliucci, a Professor of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-artificial-inteligence","category-psychology","category-winningthinking-though-leadership","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>the movement towards a transhumanist society - www.winningthinking.co.uk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=13941\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"the movement towards a transhumanist society - 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