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Kestrell ([personal profile] kestrell) wrote 2011-09-14 11:50 am (UTC)

Not sure if H+ technically refers to transhuman --I think of transhuman as he folks who believe in being able to upload their consciousness to computers, an idea with which I disagree on technical terms. I think of H+ as posthuman, or the idea of human which is replacing the traditional humanist idea of humans as biologically complete at birth, self-contained, every man is an island, ec. I think of H+ as augmented, whether with technological devices, biotech medications and eengineered body parts, or collaborative efforts such as crowdsourcing. The ceremony for he opening of the Augmentation Lab at MIT was called H2.0, which is probably where I get my definition (John Hawkenberry used the term in his accompanying speech and introductions).

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