Lincoln Cannon

Lincoln is a technologist and philosopher, and leading voice of Mormon Transhumanism. He writes and presents about technological evolution and postsecular religion. Read about Lincoln →

Recent Articles

Financial Nihilism Strengthens Crypto

Every few months, cryptocurrency cycles through yet another bout of financial nihilism. Tokens surge and collapse. New forms of leverage spawn like digital fungi. Degens perform their rituals of glorious self-immolation. Critics claim the entire ecosystem is a casino built on delusion and fraud. Insiders shrug and continue experimenting, as ... Read the article →
Sankofa Futurism

When we think about the origin of Transhumanism, we often think about Europe and America: from Enlightenment humanism, through the industrial revolution, and onward to Silicon Valley. That conception is true enough, if we’re thinking about Transhumanism in name. But if we’re thinking about Transhumanism in function, there’s much more ... Read the article →
From Liberty Jail to Priesthood Sealing Power

Joseph Smith taught that enduring power emerges naturally, not from force, but from the influence of relationships that we develop together through knowledge, consent, compassion, and persuasion. Such virtues form the underlying relational physics that make social power, and its technical applications, enduring. They describe not only how Joseph envisioned ... Read the article →
Theophanies of the Future

What would it be like for a superintelligence to meet, for the first time, that which is compared to itself a superintelligence? What would it be like for that which we might (perhaps obstructively, damningly) revere as God to meet that which they might revere as God? This is, of ... Read the article →
Origin of Eternal Power

If there’s a text that was written by a prophet of a God who is worthy of worship, Doctrine and Covenants section 121 is that text. Writing from Liberty Jail in March 1839, Joseph Smith had been imprisoned for several months, cramped and freezing. In October 1838, Missouri Governor Boggs ... Read the article →
God, Humanity, and Artificial Intelligence

“Faith, Ethics, and Human Dignity in an Age of Artificial Intelligence” may be, to date, the most important speech from a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the topic of artificial intelligence. Elder Gerrit W. Gong, an apostle of the Church, delivered the speech to ... Read the article →
Prompting God

This is a transcript of my presentation today at the 2025 conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. I delivered it in a form approximating that of a traditional Mormon prayer, although somewhat more lengthy and inclusive of silent periods that aren’t typical. The motivation for my topic and delivery was, ... Read the article →
Archive: Volume One

Today, twenty years to the day since I published the first post on my website, I’m releasing Archive: Volume One 2005–2008, available now on Amazon in both paperback and hardcover editions. This first volume gathers more than five hundred pages of posts, articles, and essays from the years when my ... Read the article →
59 Thoughts on October 2025 General Conference

Last weekend, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints met for our worldwide general conference. The conference occurred just a week after Church president Russell M. Nelson died, and Thomas Jacob Sanford killed several Church members. Emotions and words at the conference reflected those events. When I ... Read the article →
Autocracy, Not Transhumanism, Is the Real Threat

In what was for many a jaw-dropping revelation, the world’s attention recently turned to a candid moment between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. As they walked together, a hot mic picked up their conversation about a particularly controversial issue in contemporary ethical debates: the extension of ... Read the article →
The Eternal Dance

My youngest son, Alexander, married this week with his best friend, Megan. All of the events, the temple sealing and ring ceremony and reception, were beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed participating and watching them happily ritualize their relationship – with each other and our community. Megan and Alexander asked me to ... Read the article →
Peter Thiel Recognizes the Antichrist

In an interview with the New York Times, Peter Thiel discussed his perspective that Western society has exhibited decades of technological and cultural stagnation, with only digital technologies like blockchain and AI providing any substantial progress. Thiel attributed this stagnation to cultural anxiety about growth, leading to increased risk aversion ... Read the article →