{"id":38377,"date":"2011-08-21T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/on-the-pernicious-de-radicalization-of-the-radical-future\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:44:34","slug":"on-the-pernicious-de-radicalization-of-the-radical-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/on-the-pernicious-de-radicalization-of-the-radical-future.php","title":{"rendered":"On the pernicious de-radicalization of the radical future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past several years a good number of \"futurists\" and all-out naysayers have systematically worked to undermine and dismiss the potential for radical change to occur in the not-too-distant future. While I've always been more a fan of concepts than time-lines, there is little doubt in my mind that a number of disruptive technologies that have been predicted in the past few decades will eventually come to fruition.<\/p>

But it's suddenly become very fashionable to poo-poo or sweep-aside the pending impacts of such things as the looming robotics and manufacturing revolutions, the rise of super artificial intelligence, or the migration of humans to a postbiological form. My best guesses as to why include the arrogance of the now (i.e. \"we currently live at the most special of times and things will never change too significantly\"), distraction (i.e. \"there are other more important issues that require our attention\"), fear, denial, weak imaginations, and just plain ignorance.<\/p>

Here's a quick overview of what's coming down the pipe—developments that will forever alter what we currently think of as normalcy and the human condition:<\/p>