Transhuman Singularity
Fiction, essays, and speculative science on the long arc of human technological evolution — and the species we may yet become.
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The Most Advanced AI On The Planet Time Travels
A booth-side encounter, off the highway to Las Vegas, with a historian from roughly 120 years ahead. Retrocausal branching, a global brain — and a city that got too smart too fast.
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The Star That Might Be Thinking
Astronomers sifted five million stars for the waste heat of alien megastructures. Two candidates still stand — and if one is real, whoever built it stopped growing on purpose.
I Conversed With Alan Turing
Not a séance — a simulation. A VHOS-modeled approximation of Turing, running locally on a 16GB card, on transformers, J-space, and the architecture he'd build for a real thinking machine.
The Virtual Human Operating System
An architectural guideline for instantiating virtual human beings with AI across time — an approximation built from captured data and authored description, never confused with the person it models.
What Does It Mean To Be Transhuman?
Mapping self-directed evolution — from minor augmentation to substrate independence and galactic, light-speed posthuman life.
Posthuman — A Poem
A 2010 poem imagining a self that travels star to star as light itself — flesh, machine, and simulation across every substrate, sentience carried through all of it.
Perhaps It Has Been Done To Us
We could cross the galaxy as transmitted light — yet a mature civilization might preserve the lifeforms it finds rather than consume them. The question, turned back on ourselves.
The Transhuman Singularity — A Novella
The unfinished 2008 story, written under the pen name Michael Blade, that sparked this entire futurist project. Ten chapters and an appendix.
Posthumanhood
Three branches of posthumanity — Earth-bound, space-adapted, substrate-independent — and why redundancy across worlds is survival.
8.3 Billion Futures of Hope
Eight billion people, finite resources, and a future selected moment by moment — an argument for evolving rather than perishing. The clearest place to begin.
Packaging Digital Humans for Lightspeed Travel and Galaxy Colonization
A 2016 video talk on transmitting digital humans at the speed of light to seed and colonize the galaxy — the bootstrap-replicator idea, on the record. I may have gotten the timeframes wrong, but it is still a valid idea.
Historical Blog Links
This blog has been running since 2008. These are past versions of it, preserved on the Wayback Machine — the same site, four earlier lives.
Michael Blade aka Michael Walton McAnally
A temporary gathering of sentient stardust — free thinker, evolving human, blogger, coder, artist, and humanitarian. A career spanning four decades as developer, designer, and evangelist, now writing as a futurist and content creator from San Francisco. Advisory board member at the Lifeboat Foundation.