Ark Invest’s Big Ideas Report Is All About AI — Will Transhumanism Follow?

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When Cathie Wood, the founder and CEO of Ark Invest, comes to mind the first thing you probably think of is her $1 million Bitcoin prediction.

Or how her ETF has had a lackluster performance since it was incepted back in 2014.

Say what you will, Cathie Wood and her team at Ark are thinking deeply about the future.

Since 2017 Ark Invest has put out an annual Big Ideas Report. It’s a slide deck that tracks the new technologies Ark is following closely and is investing in. Their goal is to give investors an idea about how innovation is going to impact investing in the long term.

These new technologies aren’t just disruptive. They are going to radically change life as we know it.

I sat down and read all 153 pages of this year’s Big Ideas Report. What might look like a random assortment of highly profitable, emerging technologies at first glance is actually a deeply integrated web of technological innovations with AI at the helm.

If Ark’s thesis is correct, there is good reason for investors to celebrate.

But that’s not what this essay is going to talk about.

Instead, it’s going to dive into what this means for the rest of us. Those of us who…