The first three idols of augmentation attack your freedom. The fourth — the Genic Guidance — attacks your conscience: it turns refusing to redesign the human into a moral failing. And then, the way out of the labyrinth, hand in hand with Teilhard de Chardin.
There’s a moment when you stop walking toward something and start kneeling before it. That’s how one ends up before the three idols of augmentation: the Designable as Inevitability, Augmentation as Neutrality, and Fusion without Remainder.
There’s a moment when the logic of “human augmentation” stops looking futuristic and becomes the present. And in that moment you recognize something 80 years old: we’re facing Maritain’s angelism, a diagnosis so precise about how we treat the human body as a technical problem that…
