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Transhumanism will not arrive as a manifesto. It will arrive as a product roadmap.
Brain chips. Pig organs. Human neurons on chips playing Doom. Biohybrid microrobots repairing spinal cords. AI believers talking about conscious machines spreading intelligence across the cosmos. The pattern is not one technology. It is the redesign of the human. First repair. Then enhancement. Then optimisation. Then replacement.
Transhumanism used to sound like billionaires trying to escape biology. Now it is healthcare, computing, labour strategy, defence, longevity, data, insurance, regulation and employee capability. Read “The remnants“.
What happens when bodies become upgradeable, cognition becomes assisted, organs become replaceable, emotions become measurable, and identity becomes programmable?The danger is not that all of this is wrong. The danger is that parts of it are right, useful and commercially irresistible. A spinal cord repair bot is not dystopian. A pig organ saving a life is not dystopian. A brain implant helping someone move again is not dystopian.
The leadership question
Where does your organisation draw the line between augmenting human capability and surrendering human agency?
Run a human augmentation audit. Map where AI, wearables, biometrics, neurotech, automation and data are already changing how people think, work, decide, perform and are measured.
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Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong?
A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damned.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/31/transhuman-silicon-valley-ai
Meta-Cognitive Regulation Might Be the Most Important AI Skill Nobody Is Talking About
Metacognition is “thinking about your own thinking”. It is the awareness of your thoughts and the ability to control, monitor, and adjust to your own thinking in pursuit of a goal.
First pig liver and kidneys transplanted into a person — could ease organ shortages
Organs from genetically modified pigs are being used in trials in China and the US.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01708-0
China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next
The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/01/1138133/china-world-first-brain-chip/
Human Brain Cells Grown on a Chip Level Up to Play ‘Doom’
Having mastered the simple computer game “Pong”, where a paddle is moved up and down to send a ball across a screen, the brain cells have moved on to bigger things.
https://www.sciencealert.com/human-brain-cells-grown-on-a-chip-level-up-to-play-doom
Biohybrid microrobots repair spinal cord by combining stem cells with magnetoelectric nanoparticles
Researchers created a biohybrid microrobot, which combines living neural progenitor cells (NPCs) with a technical component in the form of specially engineered nanoparticles.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-biohybrid-microrobots-spinal-cord-combining.html
