TRANSHUMAN SINGULARITYWEBMAC.COM · EST. 2008
Transmissions from a possible future · Est. 2008

Transhuman Singularity

Fiction, essays, and speculative science on the long arc of human technological evolution — and the species we may yet become.

By M. Blade  ·  Michael Walton McAnally  ·  San Francisco

FictionScience Fiction

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, multiversal computation, a global brain — and a city that got too smart too fast.

Eighteen years in the writing, the story began in 2008 as an account of an actual experience the author has never been able to fully explain — revised and expanded in 2026.

M. Blade  ·  APR 2026  ·  14 MIN READ
Read the story →

Selected Writing

Essays · Fiction · Poetry · Speculative Science
White Paper

The Virtual Human Operating System

A proposed architectural guideline for instantiating virtual human beings with AI technologies across time — an approximation built from captured data and authored description, never confused with the person it is modeled on.

2026 · VERSION 3.0OPEN →
Essay

What Does It Mean To Be Transhuman?

Mapping self-directed evolution — from minor augmentation to substrate independence and galactic, light-speed posthuman life.

MAY 2017 · 4 MINOPEN →
Poetry

Posthuman

A 2010 poem imagining a self that travels star to star as light itself — flesh, machine, and simulation across every substrate.

NOV 2011OPEN →
Introduction

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.

2026 · 4 MINOPEN →
Speculative

Posthumanhood

Three branches of posthumanity — Earth-bound, space-adapted, substrate-independent — and why redundancy across worlds is survival.

APR 2026 · 5 MINOPEN →
Novella

The Transhuman Singularity

The unfinished 2008 story, written under the pen name Michael Blade, that sparked this entire futurist project.

2008 · UNFINISHEDOPEN →
Essay

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.

NOV 2011 · UPD 2026 · 4 MINOPEN →
Archive

Historical Blog Links

This blog has been around since 2008 — here are some historical links to past versions of the blog, preserved on the Wayback Machine.

WAYBACK MACHINE2008 · 2012 · 2014 · 2016
Presentation

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 still a valid idea.

VIDEO · 2016WATCH ON YOUTUBE →
About the Author

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.