• "we already have a whole generation of young people
• who are already hybrid cyborgs
• They live half their life on the internet"
  • host quoting Elise Bohan from her book

Comment

• Elise says
  • "there is this growing Chasm between
    • our Paleolithic brains and
    • what we're designed for and
      • the niches we're built to inhabit and this new technologically infused world that we're living in
  • We have changed our environment so rapidly and so radically and we have not kept pace with that change
    • so either we keep changing the environment or
    • we change ourselves to fit the environment and
    • I think the fact that we're consistently making these commodified decisions in which
      • we do expunge more and more of our of our Humanity in favor of profit
      • in favor of short-term decisions i
      • n favor of such abysmal thinking when it comes to complex systems like the human body
    • it is a testament to the fact that these brains are not built for this world and
    • we are not going to be adequate stewards of this system
      • that is now so complex that to keep it held together
    • you actually need a new form of intelligence beyond what we are"
• Elise Bohan' statements perfectly echo Ronald Wright's famous quote on the nature of progress traps
  • “To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot of what we see in the news.”
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fwork%2Fquotes%2F321797-a-short-history-of-progress&group=world

comment

• I think, however, that Wright would agree more with Mary and less with Elise in Elise's contention that
  • we need a new form of intelligence beyond what we are
  • applying progress to our own cognitive abilities
    • may create the biggest progress trap of all

• Marry Harrington
  • contributing editor and writer for Unherd
    • https://unherd.com/author/mary-harrington/
• Elise Bohan,
  • Evolutionary Macrohistory researcher at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute
    • https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/team/30862/
  • Author of
    • Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make or break century
      • https://unsw.press/books/future-superhuman/