This document outlines a journey from being beasts to becoming superheroes to gods using technology. It argues that as technology allows us to be present anywhere and anytime through things like telephones and computers, we are building "superconductors for our minds" that transcend biological limitations. However, privacy issues arise when sensual data is converted to symbols that computers can understand and share. The document suggests we must resolve this tension between privacy erosion and enhanced presence. It speculates that the trajectory of technology development may lead humanity to become "Homo evolutis" that deliberately directs its own and other species' evolution, achieving a god-like state of being everywhere through advanced communication technologies.

1. OUR JOURNEY FROM
BEASTS to SUPERHEROES to GODS
May 2016
www.hypervoice.org

2. “Man is a rope,
tied between
beast and Superhuman
– a rope over an abyss.”
— Nietzsche

3. We are beasts
Beast

4. Beasts are
sensual
Computers are
symbolic

5. We breathe

6. We have facial
expressions

7. Our blood
flows

8. We sweat

9. We have posture

10. We express
movement

11. We make noise

12. We are full of hormones

13. We smell

14. And we are using
computers to take us on a journey
Beast Superhuman

15. Our bodies: prisoners of one place & time
YOU Place
Time

16. Add technology…
• Telephone

17. One body, two places, same time
YOU Places
Times
YOU

18. Add technology…

19. Add technology…

20. Add technology…

21. What we want: omnipresence
OMNISPATIAL
COMMUNICATIONS

22. What we want: omniscience
OMNITEMPORAL
COMMUNICATIONS

23. Ideas spread with accelerating speed
EVOLUTIONARY SPEED
SUPEREVOLUTIONARY SPEED

24. What we want: all seeing, all knowing
YOU

25. Be present anywhere, anytime

26. “We dream to
transcend the
biological shackles
that limit us.”
— Jason Silva,
Futurist and videographer

27. Just one small problem…
You’re still a beast

28. Our beastly reality:
We try to replicate “being there”
at some other place and time
PRESENT
SUB-PRESENT
“Like being there”
“Worse than being there”
Audio fidelity
Cognitive fidelity
Conversational fidelity
Source: Joe Burton, CTO, Plantronics

29. Our superhero desire:
Better than “being there”
PRESENT
SUB-PRESENT
SUPER-PRESENT“Better than being there”
“Like being there”
“Worse than being there”
Audio fidelity
Cognitive fidelity
Conversational fidelity
Capability fidelity
Character fidelity
Source: Joe Burton, CTO, Plantronics

30. We are building…

31. Superconductors
for our minds

32. INTERNAL CONTEXT
EXTERNAL CONTEXT

33. This superhuman technology is
Everywhere

34. The problem…
SUB-PRESENCE
SUPER-PRESENCE
WALLOFPRIVACYOBJECTIONS
…is privacy

35. Computers
amplify
symbols
When sensual
data is turned
into symbols,
computers
erode privacy
This is a
fundamental
tension we
need to resolve

36. Wemustcross
theabyssof
privacyerosion

37. Where this journey takes us
Beasts
Superheroes
Gods

38. Beast
Superhero

39. “I think we're going to move from
a Homo sapiens into a Homo
evolutis: a hominid that takes
direct and deliberate control
over the evolution of his species,
her species and other species.”
—Juan Enriquez
Biologist

40. Gods

41. “The essential function
of the universe, which
is a machine for
making gods.”
— Henri Bergson
Philosopher

42. www.hypervoice.org
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