While i doubt it’ll get me banned anywhere, it does get me very weird looks if i bring it up in meat space, so I’ll bring it up here instead!
As a product of totally random processes selecting for absolutely nothing in particular humans are pretty cool, but from any kind of intelligent perspective we are a failure. Our teeth don’t fit, our backs don’t work right, we have organs with no other purpose than to kill us. God or evolution, which ever, has put in an absolutely minimum wage effort into our bodies and i think we should strive to do better, to be better. I understand being against current possibilities (I’m not getting magnets in my hands or the musk brain chip), but to be against transhumanism in general is completely insane.
Oh for sure you can find contrarians on any subject. It’s more a matter if they’re numerous and influential enough to steer decision making.
Personally, I expect transhumanism to go down like any other trendy product - once it reaches a certain critical mass of convenience, even skeptics will quietly change their tune; people generally follow the path of least resistance (and relatedly, most convenience).
I dunno if I have much input to give on that without hearing out a look-giver’s perspective as well.
I don’t think this will happen by convenience, but rather by forced necessity. Some parts of the world are virtually impossible to live in without internet access or a smartphone right now because society forces demanded so.
I’ll split hairs by saying I still think it’s still the other way round. It is getting progressively harder to function in developed society without smartphones and internet, yes. But they weren’t always necessary, and their original consumer-side popularity stemmed from being convenient tools. At some point popularity reaches a criticality where it’s no longer popular, it’s the de-facto standard, and eventually a necessity as the standard becomes assumed.
It is splitting hairs, since I do think they’re different stages of the same overall process. But in contemplating whether a product will be ubiquitous in the first place, I think it’s more relevant to focus on the earlier, more tumultuous stages.