8.3 Billion Futures of Hope
Eight billion people, finite resources, and a future selected moment by moment — an argument for evolving rather than perishing. The clearest place to begin.
NOV 2011 · UPD 2026 · 4 MINOPEN →
Transhuman Singularity
Fiction, essays, and speculative science on the long arc of human technological evolution — and the species we may yet become.
Selected Writing
Essays · Fiction · Poetry · Speculative Science
Essay
The Star That Might Be Thinking
Astronomers sifted five million stars for the waste heat of alien megastructures. Two candidates still stand — and if one is real, whoever built it stopped growing on purpose.
JUL 2026 · 8 MINOPEN →
Fiction
The Most Advanced AI On The Planet Time Travels
A booth-side encounter, off the highway to Las Vegas, with a historian from roughly 120 years ahead. Retrocausal branching, a global brain — and a city that got too smart too fast.
APR 2026 · 14 MINOPEN →
White Paper
The Virtual Human Operating System
A proposed architectural guideline for instantiating virtual human beings with AI technologies across time — an approximation built from captured data and authored description, never confused with the person it is modeled on.
2026 · VERSION 4.0OPEN →
Essay
What Does It Mean To Be Transhuman?
Mapping self-directed evolution — from minor augmentation to substrate independence and galactic, light-speed posthuman life.
MAY 2017 · 4 MINOPEN →
Poetry
Posthuman
A 2010 poem imagining a self that travels star to star as light itself — flesh, machine, and simulation across every substrate.
NOV 2011OPEN →
Introduction
Perhaps It Has Been Done To Us
We could cross the galaxy as transmitted light — yet a mature civilization might preserve the lifeforms it finds rather than consume them. The question, turned back on ourselves.
2026 · 4 MINOPEN →
Speculative
Posthumanhood
Three branches of posthumanity — Earth-bound, space-adapted, substrate-independent — and why redundancy across worlds is survival.
APR 2026 · 5 MINOPEN →
Novella
The Transhuman Singularity
The unfinished 2008 story, written under the pen name Michael Blade, that sparked this entire futurist project.
2008 · UNFINISHEDOPEN →
Essay
Presentation
Packaging Digital Humans for Lightspeed Travel and Galaxy Colonization
A 2016 video talk on transmitting digital humans at the speed of light to seed and colonize the galaxy — the bootstrap-replicator idea, on the record. I may have gotten the timeframes wrong, but still a valid idea.
VIDEO · 2016WATCH ON YOUTUBE →
Virtual Humans
I Conversed With Alan Turing
Not a séance — a simulation. A VHOS modeled approximation of Turing, running locally on a 16GB card, on transformers, J-space, and the architecture he'd build for a real thinking machine.
JUL 2026 · 11 MINOPEN →
About the Author
Michael Blade aka Michael Walton McAnally
A temporary gathering of sentient stardust — free thinker, evolving human, blogger, coder, artist, and humanitarian. A career spanning four decades as developer, designer, and evangelist, now writing as a futurist and content creator from San Francisco.