Transhumanist Claims Aside, Enhancing Human Intelligence Isn't on the Horizon

Following on what I wrote here Friday, "A Transhumanist Asks, 'Why Not Be Superheroes?'," I should explain more about the point I made that while intelligence enhancement is what gets everyone excited and riled about Transhumanism, it's the least likely thing that, for better or worse, technology can actually bestow.

In a recent (and lousy) book I'm reading, The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Serve Us Or Replace Us?, author Louis A. Del Monte makes the clai...