Transhumanism 101

Since this video is talking about transhumanism, cyborgs and all that stuff, this excerpt from Discovery news written by George Dvorsky should interest you guys. the whole thing is about the 9 technologies that could transform the world.

Organic Electronics

Traditionally, our visions of cybernetics and the cyborg is one in which natural, organic parts have been replaced with mechanical devices or prostheses. The notion of a half-human, half-machine has very much become ingrained in our thinking -- but it's likely wrong. Thanks to the rise of the nascent field of organic electronics, it's more likely that we'll rework the body's biological systems and introduce new organic components altogether.

Already today, scientists have engineered cyborg tissue that can sense its environment. Other researchers have invented chemical circuits that can channel neurotransmitters instead of electric voltages.

And as Mark Changizi has suggested, future humans will continue to harness the powers of their biological constitutions and engage in what Stanislas Dehaene calls neuronal recycling.

Here's a link to the rest of the article (http://news.discovery.com/tech/world-transforming-technologies-120919.html).

Living in the Midwest, the most obvious factor in rejecting/ignoring transhumanism has always appeared to me to be nostalgia: the Little House On the Prairie sentiment.
Nostalgia combined with the rugged individualist's inchoate rejection/ignorance of that which delinks him too much from the past.
"If living to age 70 was good enough for self-reliant Gramps and Granny, it is good enough for me."