Smashing Technologies into Each Other

A lot of people tend to dismiss trans-humanism as a religious trope, with little basis upon the reality of current day science advancement. Many people like to say that trans-humanists are overly optimistic about things such as Engineered Negligible Senescence.

I am of the opinion, however, that it is not over zealous optimism, but the sign of a more networked brain which is able to connect unassociated discoveries in irrespective fields. Yesterday, I was watching the Science Channel try and compare many current technologies to Comic Book Superhero's. There is some level of silliness in this because they did a poor job of arguing for such capacity in human beings, taking the route of demonstrating it with large, clunky machines in most cases.

If we are able to seize control over our own genetic structure (A fact that is becoming more and more likely with every announcement in biology), the bizarre may become achievable far beyond the imaginations of the prognosticators.

What I am trying to get at, though, is that fields such as biology, AI research, robotics, nanotechnology and neurology... or hell, practically all scientific fields are developing parallel to each other. In a sense, they lack senses of their peripheries... which is necessitated by our current day and age.

Take for example the news about the DARPA challenge for Prosthetics and also compare it to the news about new thermoelectric materials. If taken separately, readers tend to think cool things are happening in science which is all well and good.

But why don't they MARRY technologies such as this? And many others! Rather than laboring separately, they should work in tandem WITH other fields.

I essentially feel there needs to be more communication in all the fields of science. Their tunnel vision is giving them a LACK of vision, and causing them to prognosticate "We won't be able to do that in the next 100 years, maybe not in the next 200."

Every day I read fascinating articles as every field races onward into the future, completely ignorant of the other racers and what they are accomplishing. We, as a race, need to have a broader vision than this... as everything is beginning to inter-relate in a more and more obvious fashion.