Today, transhumanist thinkers speak of the rise of a new “global useless class,” which will be the result of computers replacing what are deemed the redundant, superfluous, and flawed portions of humanity. According to technetronic gurus like Ray Kurtzweil, with enough 1s and 0s AI will soon reach the “singularity point”: machines will become conscious self-learning creative beings, rendering many humans “obsolete.” Those who wish to remain “relevant” will have to eschew their 1.0 human forms and become new genetically modified super humans who are merged with machines and the latest cutting edge “bionic” technology. Those who resist will become irrelevant, part of the new “global useless class.”
