Who do we want to be? --- It's valid to ask who are we as humans, but I think we should adress the quistion of Who do we want to be since identities and meanings are conventions and therefore we can agree to define ourselves as we want. This gaves us the power (and the burden) of defining where are we going to steer this identitie. Do we want to be conquerors? explorers? gods? Do we want to spawn new entities that surely will surpase what we actually are? We have XXI century technology, medieval institutions and hominid biology. We have the means to shape our future, but probably not the criteria for making the rigth choices

Source author: Carlos Arturo Garcia Bonilla carlos.garcia@cancilleria.gov.co