{"quotes":[{"text":"What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","cyberpunk","posthumanism","science","scifi","time","time-travel","transhumanism"],"id":2546,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"Bad things happen to good people: The Jesus Christ Syndrome, I labeled it.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["aetheism","inspirational-life","transhumanism"],"id":9132,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"You should get more sleep,' he remarked. 'You won't need so many chemicals.'She raised an eyebrow. 'This from the man with half his bloodstream registered in the patent office.' Jovellanos hadn't had her shots yet. She didn't need them in her current position, but she was too good at her job to stay where she was much longer. Desjardins looked forward to the day when her righteous stance on the Sanctity of Free Will went head-to-head against the legal prerequisites for promotion. She'd probably take one look at the list of perks and the new salary, and cave.He had, anyway.","author":"Peter Watts","tags":["career-development","free-will","nihilism","transhumanism"],"id":16299,"author_id":"Peter+Watts"},{"text":"I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all systems over time.","author":"Mark O'Connell","tags":["bus","entropy","immortality","metaphor","texas","transhumanism"],"id":49847,"author_id":"Mark+O%27Connell"},{"text":"You can't hack your destiny, brute force...You need a back door, a side channel into Life.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","cyberpunk","destiny","emotional-intelligence","fate","hacking","life-lessons","life-philosophy","singularity","transcendence","transhumanism"],"id":50889,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real questions facing us is not 'What do we want to become?', but 'What do we want to want?' Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven't given it enough thought.","author":"Yuval Noah Harari","tags":["desires","futurology","genetic-engineering","human-desire","science","transhumanism"],"id":62508,"author_id":"Yuval+Noah+Harari"},{"text":"Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less, and indiscriminately for everyone. Return to nature as nature pre-technologically was, attractive and possible as it still in some places is, can only work for some of us.","author":"John Cage","tags":["nature","off-the-grid","society","survival","technology","transhumanism"],"id":72458,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched.","author":"Anna L. Davis","tags":["biohacking","biotech","culture","cyberpunk","internet","open-source","sci-fi","singularity","society","technology","transhumanism"],"id":79819,"author_id":"Anna+L.+Davis"},{"text":"Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","destiny","fate","free-will","god-s-will","humanity","posthumanism","sadism","transhumanism"],"id":82211,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"A lot of people recoil from the word 'drugs' - which is understandable given today's noxious street drugs and their uninspiring medical counterparts. Yet even academics and intellectuals in our society typically take the prototypical dumb drug, ethyl alcohol. If it's socially acceptable to take a drug that makes you temporarily happy and stupid, then why not rationally design drugs to make people perpetually happier and smarter? Presumably, in order to limit abuse-potential, one would want any ideal pleasure drug to be akin - in one limited but important sense - to nicotine, where the smoker's brain finely calibrates its optimal level: there is no uncontrolled dose-escalation.","author":"David Pearce","tags":["alcohol","drugs","future","nootropics","society","transhumanism","wellbeing"],"id":99526,"author_id":"David+Pearce"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}