Dr. Wendy Schultz earned her MA and PhD in Alternative Futures from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She has over 30 years of experience in foresight practice. The document discusses a future where people can augment and redesign themselves through biological, chemical, or structural means. It poses a series of questions about how one might redesign themselves in 2035 by choosing a new supercapability, how they would use that capability, who else might join their new tribe, how their community would fit into society, and what would be considered ordinary or elite.

1. Wendy
Schultz
The future of populism in a
transgenic, transhumanist,
transmedia world
(When extraordinary and
singular is ordinary)
Dr. Schultz earned both her MA and
PhD in Alternative Futures at the
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, and
has over thirty years of foresight
practice all over the world. She lives
in Oxford, England.

3. when everyone
is augmented,
who is ‘ordinary’?

4. Changes erupt,
transform the old,
create the novel,
…and generate tribes.

6. Augment yourself.

7. Augment yourself.

9. In your 24/7 virtual life…

10. graphics from WIRED’s
“Found: Artifacts of the Future” feature.
or embed ICT

11. Boost your
brain.
Recalibrate
your mind.
Offload your
memory.

12. graphics from WIRED’s “Found: Artifacts of the Future” feature.
DNA-tailor drugs
to your need and your mood.

13. CRISPR-Cas9

15. it’s 2035
and you can redesign yourself.
1
choose 1 major transformative change,
adding a new capability –
physical or mental, via
biological, chemical, or structural means.
what new [super]capability
would you give yourself, and how?

16. it’s 2035
and you can redesign yourself.
2
what would you do with
your new [super]capability -
a new job or work?
arts? sports?

17. it’s 2035
and you can redesign yourself.
3
who else do you think would choose
a similar [super]capability?
who else would be in your new tribe?

18. it’s 2035
and you can redesign yourself.
4
where would your community fit
into the rest of your society?
at the top? on the bottom?
on the fringes?

19. it’s 2035
and you can redesign yourself.
5
what would be ’ordinary’?
what would be ‘elite’?

20. May you live
in interesting times.
APF V Gathering | Online on Zoom
Friday, 15 September 2017
Dr. Wendy L Schultz