Apologists Clinton Wilcox and Joel Furches explore some of the core principles of transhumanism and their ramifications 

“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”

So comes the welcoming speech given by one of television’s greatest villains: the Borg of the Star Trek franchise. These fictional creatures are a cybernetic species who don’t procreate naturally, but instead propagate by way of capturing humanoids and fitting them with cybernetic parts. These individuals are then plugged into a network and mentally enslaved to their alien captors.

When asked, the queen of the Borg said that her race travels from star system to star system forcing people into… (Register to read the rest of the article)