The Concluding Unscientific Postscript Continues...

Part 2

1. In science fiction transhumanism always ends badly. Here’s an instance of fiction telling the truth. Numerous examples could be cited, here’s one: classic Star Trek, Season 2, “Return to Tomorrow.”

2. Don’t assume an Orwellian future is exclusively political. Large corporate employers are already using AI to micro-manage employees.

3. Efficiency isn’t the only thing we should value when it comes to work. There is a pseudoscientific and materialistic bias to the discipline of economics. Older understandings made room for love, loyalty, and other humane values.

4. If love is entirely removed from the economy, there will be nothing to hold back the machines.

5. Christians who believe technology is an unqualified good don’t have any basis for drawing a line between nature at large and human nature. If everything is permitted when it comes to the natural world, why not our bodies? The only thing that holds some people back from going full transhumanist is the “ick” factor. But that’s not enough.

6. “Already there is a taste for the analog among the affluent: typewriters, vinyl records, film photography. The less you trust the virtual world, the greater a desire for a pre-digital existence.” The Spectator, July 2025, p. 47, “Trust Issues.”

7. The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength anticipate transhumanism and vehemently reject it. Curiously, many people who admire those books are awkwardly silent in the face the realization of transhumanism in our time.