Transhumanism: What Geeks Can Learn From Gurus

Robert Tercek – a friend, colleague and futurist – crafted a fascinating how-to on Transhumanism (i.e., “human enhancement”) movement marketing for the recent H+ Summit at Harvard.

Robert’s take was how today’s lifestyle gurus – Oprah (Tercek’s recent role was running digital media for her OWN network), Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins and the like – all drive humanity forward with their respective and well communicated platforms.

Subtitled “Lessons for the Transhumanist Movement from the Self Help Industry,” the talk walked through media/culture’s take on transhumanism: from other political movement comparables to mass-culture film memes – 2001, Blade Runner, T2, X-Men, Gattaca, The Island and Brazil – and into other memes like unfair advantages (steroids), hybrid (larger-than-life animals) and into a self help outline (slide 47 onwards) that suggests humanizing the marketing around Transhumanism, so to speak. Read more >>