{"id":38186,"date":"2011-08-14T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/%e2%80%9ci-would-hope-that-saner-minds-would-prevail%e2%80%9d-deus-ex-human-revolution-lead-writer-mary-demarle-on-the-ethics-of-transhumanism-science-not-fiction\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:44:30","slug":"%e2%80%9ci-would-hope-that-saner-minds-would-prevail%e2%80%9d-deus-ex-human-revolution-lead-writer-mary-demarle-on-the-ethics-of-transhumanism-science-not-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/%e2%80%9ci-would-hope-that-saner-minds-would-prevail%e2%80%9d-deus-ex-human-revolution-lead-writer-mary-demarle-on-the-ethics-of-transhumanism-science-not-fiction.php","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Would Hope That Saner Minds Would Prevail\u201d Deus Ex: Human Revolution Lead Writer Mary DeMarle on the Ethics of Transhumanism | Science Not Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among<em> <\/em>gamers, <em>Deus Ex<\/em> is something of a legendary fusion of disparate gaming styles. Among science fiction buffs, <em>Deus Ex <\/em>is lauded for&nbsp;managing to take two awesome genres, William Gibson-esque cyberpunk and Robert Anton Wilson-level conspiracy theories, and jam them together into an immanentizing of the eschaton unlike anything you&rsquo;ve seen since <em>Doktor Sleepless<\/em>. And among transhumanists, <em>Deus Ex <\/em>brought up every issue of humanity&rsquo;s fusion with technology one could imagine. It is a rich video game.<\/p><p>So when Square Enix decided to pick up the reins from Eidos and create a new installment in the series, <em>Deus Ex: Human Revolution (DX:HR), <\/em>I was quite excited. The first indication <em>DX:HR <\/em>was not going to be a crummy exploitation of the original&rsquo;s success (see: <em>Deus Ex 2:&nbsp;Invisible War<\/em>), was the teaser trailer, shown above.&nbsp;Normally, a teaser trailer is just music and a slow build to a logo or single image that lets you know the game is coming out. Instead, the development team decided to demonstrate that it was taking the philosophy of the game seriously.<\/p><p>What philosophy? you might ask. Why transhumanism, of course. Nick Bostrom, chair of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, centers the birth of transhumanism in the ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tdZNQovGkKIX1wHLNF4oTH1cJ0U\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8c52f_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tdZNQovGkKIX1wHLNF4oTH1cJ0U\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8c52f_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8c52f_9DhoOH1yyFQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8c52f_ipdfkk1cSYE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among gamers, Deus Ex is something of a legendary fusion of disparate gaming styles. Among science fiction buffs, Deus Ex is lauded for&nbsp;managing to take two awesome genres, William Gibson-esque cyberpunk and Robert Anton Wilson-level conspiracy theories, and jam them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/%e2%80%9ci-would-hope-that-saner-minds-would-prevail%e2%80%9d-deus-ex-human-revolution-lead-writer-mary-demarle-on-the-ethics-of-transhumanism-science-not-fiction.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}