{"id":12240,"date":"2026-08-26T08:43:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=12240"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:43:58","slug":"transhumanity-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2026\/08\/26\/transhumanity-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/transhumanity.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2;width:960px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/transhumanity.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/transhumanity-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/transhumanity-768x640.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion: &nbsp;<\/strong>Beyond smartphones, smart glasses, and wearable technologies, we\u2019ve entered an age where our DNA can be edited, our microbiomes can be cultivated, and connected devices can be implanted in us, or attached to us, to repair or extend our \u2018natural\u2019 abilities. &nbsp;&nbsp;Eyeglasses have been around for 700 years, so this isn\u2019t exactly \u2018new\u2019, but the era of digital&nbsp;<strong>transhumanity<\/strong>&nbsp;has just begun, and it is deeply entwined with mobile intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>523 Inspiration: &nbsp;<\/strong>A basic question is whether&nbsp;we have any true grasp of what the limits of the human brain are, and of our \u2018learnability\u2019, and while we should be very cautious of exploring such limits, might not&nbsp;the grounded world of education be the safest place to start?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion: &nbsp;Beyond smartphones, smart glasses, and wearable technologies, we\u2019ve entered an age where our DNA can be edited, our microbiomes can be cultivated, and connected&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2026\/08\/26\/transhumanity-9\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transhumanity<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w01-frontiers-poll","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12242,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240\/revisions\/12242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}