David Wood parle:
"We
transhumanists have high hopes for the transformations in human
circumstances that might be delivered by ongoing technology improvements
over the next few decades. All being well, green technology will
provide an abundance of clean, renewable energy. Molecular manufacturing
will provide big advances in the creation and the recycling of material
goods. Synthetic biology will deliver significantly better food.
Rejuvenation technology will deliver radical healthy life extension.
Cognotechnology will provide leaps in multiple dimensions of
intelligence: rational, emotional, social, and spiritual. Robotics and
AI will free everyone from the drudgery of unsatisfying working
conditions. Virtual reality will enable astonishing new experiences as
we journey through previously unimagined internal space. At least, that
is what we believe to be possible.
But
the technology that has the biggest significance over that time period
may differ from all that I’ve mentioned so far. It has been given the
name “collabtech”: technology that enables better collaboration.
Collabtech
is what produces the “wisdom of crowds” rather than the “madness of
crowds”. (Both phenomena exist!) With good collabtech, the best ideas of
a community rapidly rise to prominence, and people are able to build
quickly on each other’s breakthroughs. With bad collabtech, discussion
is dominated by rumours, wishful thinking, exaggerations, evasions, and
factionalism. With bad collabtech, solutions exist for the hard problems
that a community is facing, but these solutions aren’t recognised. In
these circumstances, we don’t know what we know.
Each
of the technologies I mentioned in the opening paragraph is subject to
grave challenges and difficulties in the decades ahead – including
engineering challenges, legislative challenges, cultural challenges, and
political challenges. Complicating things further, many hostile critics
predict doom and gloom if these technologies are developed too quickly,
and they are stirring up opposition.
I
believe that, with the cooperation of enough engineers, entrepreneurs,
designers, educators, and integrators, these challenges can all be
solved. In the end, many hands will make light work. But that
collaboration won’t come easily. That’s why we need improved collabtech.
In
practical terms, collabtech includes artificial intelligence that
carries out real-time fact-checking. It includes wikis that actively
highlight the best understanding that a community has about the risks
and opportunities faced, and about the tools to address these risks and
opportunities. And it includes improved processes for debating and voting.
My
belief in the importance of better collabtech has led me to support the
Humanity+ project H+Pedia. H+Pedia defines its purpose on its front
page,https://hpluspedia.org,
as “to spread accurate, accessible, non-sensational information about
transhumanism and futurism among the general public”. Whilst still at an
early stage, H+Pedia is already approaching 1,000 pages of information,
and has become a useful dynamic repository for information in a number
of areas. This is an important project which will benefit from wider
participation from supporters of transhumanism worldwide. Please take a
look at it and consider becoming involved. Your input could help us
distinguish and evolve more quickly the best transhumanist ideas from
those which just sound good."
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