Transhumanists Ponder How They Will Become "The Gods Of An Earlier Age"

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Transhumanists Ponder How They Will Become "The Gods Of An Earlier Age"
I’m sure Matt expected that I’d do a quick geoengineering song-and-dance, and that was my original plan. But the more I thought about the topic, lying in bed at 4:00 am cursing jet lag, the more I realized that I needed a different direction. And then I remembered the Brand line, and was struck by something I hadn’t heard anyone else say. “We are as gods—” okay, but which gods? In our generally monotheistic age, we tend to lump all “gods” and “godlike powers” into a bucket of Almighty Power. But that’s not the way humans have thought of gods until relatively recently; for much of human civilization, gods were seen as individuals, with their own personalities, domains, and entries in an AD&D manual. We are gods, but we’re the gods of an earlier age.