Alfredo M. Ronchi

1. Depicting the scenario

To have a clear vision of the "new reality" and its trend, it is necessary to consider the technological

evolution together with some relevant events and the impacts that these aspects have had and will

have on society, then carrying out a "future back casting" exercise.

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Recently, some messages strengthened their impact on society as a mix of incumbent tragedies and

an ongoing full reshaping of society, a kind of imminent “new global order”. On the one hand the

global warming, climate change, the ozone hole, lack of food and water, the pandemic crisis and

more have had a profound impact on society, generating a widespread feeling of risk for the survival

of humanity.  The “cancel culture” movement, and the negative impact of man on nature are pushing

the most radical thinkers of the 20th-century to stop facing the prospect of the actual extinction of

Homo Sapiens. This perspective, as the endpoint of the Anthropocene the faith of anti-humanism,

begins not with a political program but with a philosophical idea. The flip side, Transhumanism

glorifies some of the same things that anti-humanism decries—scientific and technological progress,

the supremacy of reason. Some transhumanists believe that genetic engineering and

nanotechnology will allow us to alter our brains and bodies so profoundly that we will escape human

limitations such as mortality and confinement to a physical body. Others are adamant that general

artificial intelligence design will improve itself to think faster and deeper, then the improved version

would improve itself, and so on, exponentially. Both trunks of thoughts basically consider humans’

disappearance, on one side extinction on the other cyborg.…

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