Emerging technologies
Technologies with a potentially accelerating trajectory that are of particular interest to transhumanists include:
- Healthy life extension
- Physical enhancement
- Cognitive enhancement
- Nootropics or Utilitropics
- Emotional enhancement
- Spiritual enhancement
- Artificial intelligence
- Human-Computer Interface
- Genetic engineering
- Nanotechnology
- Robotics
- Space exploration
- Cryonics
- Whole brain emulation
- Mind uploading
- Virtual reality
- Quantum computing
- Renewable energy
- Geo-engineering
- Paradise engineering
- Synthetic food
- 3D printing
- Blockchain
- Financial innovation
- Education innovation
- Sex robots
- Synthetic biology
- Tissue engineering
Factors affecting the general speed of development of these technologies include:
- The law of accelerating returns
- Open source development
- Eroom's Law
- The technology adoption lifecycle
- Product value chain issues
- Legislation of innovation
- Public mindset regarding technologies
- Political sponsorship of technologies
- Market successes and failures
- The scientific method
- Principles of rationality
- Principles of design
- Principles of project management
- DIY hacking
- Entrepreneurial development
- Continuous integration
- Exponential organizations