Well turning back this issue to a more "theocratical" tone (LOL), I'm always amazed how poetry can grasp deep things in advance.
Speaking about nanotechnological transhumanism, I like very much a quote from the Bible about it:
51 Look! I tell you a sacred secret: We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed,+ 52 in a moment, in the blink* of an eye, during the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,+ and the dead will be raised up incorruptible, and we will be changed. 53 For this which is corruptible must put on incorruption,+ and this which is mortal must put on immortality.+ 54 But when this which is corruptible puts on incorruption and this which is mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: “Death is swallowed up forever.”+ 55 “Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?
Here the Apostle Paul (or whatever the writer) are speaking about the concept of (magical) transhumanism.
But the most interesting thing its the word he used, poorly translated in other languages as "in a moment". He chose the greek word ATOMOS here. Even though that time the word have not the modern meaning it's still interesting WHY he doesn't used the word PARAUTIKA as in 2 Cor 4:17 to express a very short time. He chose to use a word that it's not usually a measure of time but matter. He use the word "tiniest particle" to express a measure of time giving the ambiguity to instead talking about time duration he could speaking about in WHAT or HOW we could be transformed. Wich could be translated as "bit by bit" instead of "in a moment". Using the translation "bit by bit" or (why not?) "atomically" would also eliminate the following redundant expression "blink of an eye".
17 For though the tribulation* is momentary and light, it works out for us a glory that is of more and more surpassing greatness* and is everlasting;+
Nanotech transhumanism is based on particle physics, and its very interesting why Paul chose a word that means particle to explain a concept of transhumanism.
These little things that makes me consider the artistic value of the Bible.
