The Modern Era of Transhumanism: How Close Are We?

Politics and corporations

Blade Runner

Aliens

Repo Men

Neuromancer

Snow Crash

In the United States, we are entering what I am aching to call the "Corporate Carte Blanche" period. The last holdout to overwhelming corporate influence in the political arena, the Democratic Party, has given up all pretense of following through with their push for regulation, and are now holding out their hands like the Republican party. The only outcome I see is increased corporate control of the government until the government in the USA is rendered impotent, and is forced to become a corporation in it's own right in order to survive.

Corporations tend to be controlled by one thing: profits. Governments, at least the U.S. Government, are the largest impediment to the free flow of profits to the shareholders through taxes and other regulations, environmental impact regulations for example. However, with the middle-man's share and control decreased, the walls to corporate greed are gone.

In all reality, at least as far as transhumanism is concerned, this isn't a bad thing. As long as we can get by S.I.A.C.(shit in a can) and S.O.A.W.(Shit on a wire) we'll be ok. How to do that...