I am posting here to karma-whore, so that I may one day allowed to actually contribute to the community!
I run H+Pedia the wiki of transhumanism and futurism which has been a great ongoing project to map out everything from emerging technology developments through to political and ideological advocacy in this space.
I’m also a cybercrime researcher, so my life is rather cyberpunk.
Asking me to sum up the current state of the H+ movement is tricky because I track the entire thing on H+Pedia.
Atheism is growing very strong, due to the influence of Zoltan Istvan, where as I believe Aubrey de Grey is toning down some of his immortalist rhetoric in favour of alternative terms like “Regenerative Medicine” and the like.
There are all kinds of trends I could comment on.
Immortality comes with all kinds of definitions, literal immortality sounds more of a type-X civilization problem to me :)
Immortalism is losing popularity within H+ due to its popular interpretation as ‘forced immortality’, a trope well explored in fiction. :/
Pretty much, but I advocate this only in an opt-in, accountable fashion. Or as we say in the IT industry—user acceptance. :)