On Transhumanism and Why Technology Is Our Silicon Nervous System
Of Machines and Men
With films about the symbiosis of man and machine like Transcendence and Her, Hollywood’s had an epiphany: to be human is to be transhuman. Jason Silva is the creator of Shots of Awe, the digital web series that has rattled the brains of millions online, the Emmy-nominated host of Brain Games, and he also was a featured speaker with Bryan Cranston and Aaron Sorkin at the Tribeca Film Festval’s Future of Film series.
Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp, is the latest in a series of Hollywood films with what you might call a transhumanist flair. Other recent movies exploring the symbiosis of man and machine and our relationship with technology include the Robocop remake and Her.
