It sounds like bad science fiction, but it is rapidly becoming reality. Some of the most powerful people on the planet think they are going to "upgrade" human beings — or at least some human beings — through genetic engineering and technological schemes such as "brain implants." Yes, really. In fact, they are publicly touting alleged benefits, supposedly including eternal life, and even evolving into "gods."
If that all sounds crazy or even diabolical — good, it should, because it is. And yet, the technologies to make some of these nightmarish visions possible are progressing so fast it would make your brain spin. In some cases, the tech already exists. Meanwhile, children around the world are being prepared to embrace it through public schools and "entertainment."
World Economic Forum chief Klaus Schwab, the global frontman for the so-called "Great Reset," has been celebrating it all for years as part of what he calls the "Fourth Industrial Revolution." In his book on the subject and in speeches, Schwab outlined a plan to merge people with computer technologies, brain implants, and even to genetically "improve" them.
"Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will not stop at becoming part of the physical world around us — they will become part of us," Schwab writes in his book Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a narrative that he has been peddling for almost a decade in speeches, articles, essays, and books. "Indeed, some of us already feel that our smartphones have become an extension of ourselves."