Anarchism

Not when we let ancaps demand that "transhumanism" means letting Capitalism run amok in disability aids and medical devices. There is no anarchism to be had there.

But when we get a bunch of indy-makers together, jailbreakers, and software pirates? The culture changes to one of practicality and service to the community. And if money changes hands, its about getting the thing done, augmenting human potential.

Imagine making a motorized wheelchair for your neighbor, that nobody can charge a subscription fee. Where maintenance doesn't have an extra $5,000 fee for "intellectual property" or whatever capitalist nonsense. Congrats, we are in the realm of actual anarcho-transhumanism.

Future goals include 3D printing our own damn prescription glasses, lenses and all. A prosthetic leg that works more like a real leg. Maybe an opensource Augmented Reality headset where openstreetmap . org is easy to add to, view, navigate, and see physically around you. Four Thieves Vinegar Corp is still going, and worth a google-using-duckduckgo - just they're still early on in the dev process with lack of access to resources. We already got DIY HRT for trans people that can't safely access healthcare any other way. Free covid Mask distributors technically qualify as "transhumanist" and "anarchist", even if they profess neither.

Leave this to Capitalists? And you get shitty iPhones that try nothing new in 10 years, have less ram than last year's model, and cost twice as much. And they'll pretend your phone replaces your wheelchair and glasses. And itll flag you as a tewworwist for googling-using-google to search HRT - diy or not.

Is Anarcho-transhumanism real? Its an older meme, but it checks out. And its kinda mutating into something new just as we get and build the tools to actually make it happen.