Blurring the lines: Making people more like machines and machines more like people

Transhumanism has infiltrated society so gradually that we don't realize the dangers posed by what amounts to a new religion, until it's too late and we're deeply and irreversibly changed.

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Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen predicts that the design and manufacture of general-purpose humanoid robots will become the most lucrative market in history, surpassing even the internet in terms of economic impact.

In an interview with Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale at a forum hosted by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute, Andreessen urged the United States to lead in the development of robot factories, putting the nation in the driver’s seat of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Andreessen told the audience, referencing the humanoid robot being developed at Musk’s Tesla electric-vehicle company:

“You…