I love the whole world...

and all its craziness...


So it's official: I WANT THE ROBOT DEVILS HANDS. And here they are captured on film for the first time.

The Future of John Morgan

I stand my ground. This is something about myself I know. I feel a powerful connection to my ideas - this is something that creates social disdain.

What do I know for sure about this world?
I am my only constant.
Society is the product of many, not few.
Social change is inevitable. History shows us that this is usually for the better.
Technological change will continue on its current path. The world will end if it doesn't.
Resources will continue to decrease

What do I think I know?
Love is dangerous - the most powerful human emotion. Love is a product of the collective unconscious as Jung would say. It is most-unwelcome in the posthuman experience. I accept that love can give us the most transcendent joy. It would be a failure not to imagine a compromise which maximized safety.

What do I want to do with what I know?
I want to do what I can. What I can to make sure the world happens as it supposed to. This is boastful. AS if I assume that my choices affect the very fabric of society.
Boastful, perhaps, yes.
To think otherwise would be to take a bite out of the lie that humans are invaluable. The concept of futility all people in the world are conditioned with more and more.

To be blunt here are my goals as an entrepreneur:

1. Use my ideas to write stories. Stories about a future. A future with humans.
   
2. I plan on culminating my experience with technical theatre training and transhumanist tendencies in a story that elegantly chronicles man and machine merging into Utopia. This is my Opera.
   
3. I plan on increasing awareness with subtle creations. Earl piercing LCD displays to my face, wearing an HD camera as a permanent fixture, etc. Moreso as time goes on these are minor ideas in infancy.
4. Promoting the concept of improving the human condition.
   
5. Suggesting to embrace a new faith based on these principles.
   
6. Researching 3D holographic projection - something that will occur during the nano-tech boom.
   
7. Researching brain-immersion technique. This will be the result of reverse-engineering the next generation of brain scanning technology. Something which will occur in the 2020's also.
   
8. Pioneering the interface.
   
9. Recieving the singularity to improve the rate at which my objectives in entertainment can be reached.
   
10. Continue preaching the advantages of moving beyond our limited range of experience as we have them now.
11. EXODUS and the story of reaching what Kurzwiel refers to as the sixth epoch.
    

In Toronto there is a hospital network, Princess Margaret. They've created a new ad campaign promoting cancer awareness. The new slogan is "It's amazing what can happen in our lifetime". Transhumanism is the new religion for the intellect. And the sub-intellect is dead.

I am 21. This is no more than reflection.

Discreet

If I had myself an extra 12 000 dollars I would easily go and get a pair of Bluetooth inner ear implants from the company behind investing in this little number.

But I'm trying to ask myself how this will alter peoples perception of me.
I suppose it won't be until we have an implantable processor - one, which is not at all noticeable by others that it will catch on.

However, the shoe on the other foot if someone like me - a transhumanist with money to blow, he would have an incredible advantage. Considering the price of bandwidth, this person could use the technology to be in constant communication with someone miles away.

Wired recently ruled, with gusto, that the bluetooth ear-job was out. Perhaps this is the replacement.

In anycase, if I can live my life like everyone else and receive auditory information in an additional layer. Well that's really advantageous. And people would be somewhat offended by this gross misuse of the technology.

And so the transhumanist has few options. If he wants to give the cause attention he can upgrade himself whether with cochlear implants or whatnot. But that will make people aware of the gradient. This makes it a social disservice, and the idea may be rejected.

Therefore only strict proponents to the idea will take the pioneering plunge as it were. But, it remains a question. Am I evil for being a pioneering transhumanist? Does seeking this kind of god-like advantage tell people more about myself than I can realize? It all depends on my philosophies, I suppose.

If I embrace it as a change everyone should experience.
As opposed to feeling that I am 'better' than others for having it.
Feeling the nirvana of experiencing something mainstream in the future.
Being able to know the trends to predict.

I wonder... if the inventor of the microwave felt that twinge the first time he cooked something on 'high'. Maybe, maybe not. But I know that twinge is felt by the engineer working at Philips in an OLED lab.

About a years worth of drafts...

Ok, so this is another big update, like the one below.
I am going to take from the 10-11 updates - which were never published - a few ideas and express them here.

1) Germany, The Singularity and WWII.
I am not a historical scholar, but I do tend to befriend people who are because of our mutual interest in a very, very militant transhumanist named Adolf Hitler. The connections made in this post were along the lines of Hilter being motivated the same way I and other H+ thinkers are motivated - a new world which belonged to something more than human. The argument was outlined to create distinct parallels between Kurzweil's masterpiece The Singularity is Near. The chapter I focused on is titled 'the promise and peril of GNR'.
Genetics, Nanotech, and Robotics.
If these are the ingrediants for a new world order circa 2009 than the German regime of the 30's and 40's was quite ahead of the curve. The robotics applications were contracted to IBM. One of the biggest information-based contracts of the time. Nanotech was in the shadows mostly, but you could go so far to say that tattoos are in some form nanotech related. Especially when you consider the logistics of tattooing countries of people.
And lastly, Hilter was a supporter of genetic superiority through misguided racial means.
That's that argument, there may be some more to study. We can learn alot from the past.*

2) TV is dead...
and online distribution is finally picking up speed now that bandwidth is cheap. This means the service provider model will change, and eventually if more networks decide to produce online media, net neutrality could again be an issue.
imagine though all that revenue dissapearing from all these service providers. Most, however (Shaw, ATT, Rogers) all provide internet service as well. But when talent like Will Farell and Danny McBride create enough buzz online only for HBO to renew Eastbound and Down for a second season... well no one in their right mind could dispute that's progress.

3) Microsoft Photosynth
Is a pioneer in holographic technology circa the 2020's.
It's a system that demonstrates what will be capable when we've made a little bit more progress with shrinking the transistor. Eventually a system of location aware cameras of incredibly high sensor density could capture an entire event in 3D using the same tactics. Basically bullet time + insane processing power will give us the recording method used in th film (retitle to 'entertainment') industry.

4) Clothing
made from luminescent material that can display different information and clean itself will be amazingly helpful and will be yet something more which will reduce pollution.

That's pretty much the cream of the unpublished crop for this blog of mine.
I bet no one can wait until this time next year for another half-assed batch of reject-ideas.
*(Please, avoid miscontrueing my words. Hitler was an evil sinner. I'm not defending his actions with my H+friendly attitude.)

'I drink to my Annihilation'

Ok, this is a preface to stream of recorded thought.
Please excuse the disparity between my thoughts and my words. Their reconciliation will occur at the point where I become a world-class writer.

I drink to my annihilation is an Aldous Huxley quote.
It was inscribed on the Soma-cup that was passed around in one scene or another in Brave New World. Alex Jones said in his film Endgame that the modern US culture stems from what was featured in that book.

That BNW is a blueprint for the way things are going.
Transhumanism is here for us though, Alex.

I don't know why Alex Jones is hostile towards the ideas of H+, but I agree with him that it's a product of globalization.

So, what do I need to do. What are the main ideas of transhumanism and how can I integrate them into my life? The bottom line is I need to write about every single hole in modern day society transhumanism beams through.
Whether its the enormous fact that all systems consist more and more of data only, or if its intelligent design. Calling out the trans formative nature of man, and the essential goals of humanity that are quite dark and concealed.

I drink to my annihilation is reminiscent of the term 'immanentize the eschaton' which has become trade mark with Will Gibsons new comic Doktor Sleepless.

I have also to acknowledge some other facts, more John Morgan specific, that I tend to be slightly off center on the lightness-darkness chart - in that I'm slightly more comfortable thinking about the negative consequence then the positive. This means I constantly consider the negative reward of transhumanistic thinking than the positive. Or the reward being more valuable if only I can take advantage of it.

But these ideas in popular culture, and even in the pioneering for the idea of transhumanism, seem stronger when they are true to bother the negative and positive consequences. Saying that Transhumanstic thinking and the singularity are the apocalypse reinforce the skeptics position. But also, inspire optimism. for if the world is destroyed then we are finally able to build it in whichever way we see fit.

The future of our species and the merger with machine is the most powerful idea throughout recorded human history. Important ideas are only important if they're also dangerous.

More notes to benefit myself: I need to form a blog on the dark side of the transhumanism movement.
Having said that, I am devoted to creating a transhumanism manifesto. A piece of writing that includes outlines for all proposed technology and current research. It would expose how these ideas relate to the current and future Western social climate including how quickly new trends catch on.
I'm tempted to title such a document: "Countdown to the end of Humanity" and I'm planning it will kick off the new grinding blog.
This blog may or may not be the home of the Human Recording Project, and I'm still deciding whether or not to link it to an instructibles account.