Dedicated to the Proposition that the Future Ain't What It Used to
Be... The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of
great reliability; and something is bound to come of it. Vannevar
Bush, 1945 "I believe in transhumanism": once there are enough people
who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of
a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that
of Pekin man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real
destiny. Julian Huxley, 1957 A Proud Member of the Reality-Based
Community