{"id":207,"date":"2026-09-04T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:13:34","slug":"senior-ai-lesson-14-transhumanism-human-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/senior-ai-lesson-14-transhumanism-human-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior AI Lesson 14: Transhumanism and Human 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WackyCoder Senior AI Lesson 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This lesson introduces transhumanism in plain language: the idea of using technology to extend or enhance human abilities. Seniors examine real technologies separately from speculative claims.<\/p>\n<h2>Class activity<\/h2>\n<p>Discuss a set of enhancements\u2014hearing aids, pacemakers, prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces, memory augmentation\u2014and decide where ordinary medicine ends and transhumanism begins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key takeaway:<\/strong> Technology can expand human capability, but questions of consent, access, safety, and identity remain human decisions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Recovered from the original WackyCoder Senior AI workshop archive.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore human enhancement, AI, wearables, implants, and the ethical questions around transhumanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-for-seniors","category-senior-ai-lessons","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wackycoder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}