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I understood the intention of the movie, but I'm also in the camp that thinks engineering ourselves is the way forward, and a given. Genetic and silicon advances have a real potential to make us super/transhuman and immortal.

> It's also nearly certain that any such technology would not be distributed in an egalitarian way

This argument could have been made about early computers as well. But time and its economies of scale come into play. We can't limit our species based on shortsighted fairness, there's a longer view to take.

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> I understood the intention of the movie, but I'm also in the camp that thinks engineering ourselves is the way forward, and a given. Genetic and silicon advances have a real potential to make us super/transhuman and immortal.

Techno-optimism hasn't really panned out as promised.

And I really doubt it will be "us." If trans-humanism pans out (though I suspect it's bunk), we'll be the Homo erectus populations to their Homo sapiens.

> This argument could have been made about early computers as well. But time and its economies of scale come into play. We can't limit our species based on shortsighted fairness, there's a longer view to take.

Capital got automation from computers, the plebs got distraction boxes that push ads.

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> This response would have been perfect if you had signed off with "Sent from my iPhone"

Because it's a distraction box or so amazing that it shows technology should not be criticized and everyone who does is a hypocrite?