Should technology transform human capabilities or be deliberately limited? This axis asks how far society should embrace technologies that reshape work, bodies, cognition, and daily life. The questions range from automation and artificial intelligence to genetic intervention and dependence on complex infrastructure.
The midpoint indicates a mixed or context-dependent balance, not political neutrality overall.
What Transhumanism means on this axis
Transhumanism welcomes deliberate technological enhancement of human capacities, especially when risks can be managed and benefits made broadly available.
What Primitivism means on this axis
Primitivism is more skeptical of technological dependence and gives greater value to small-scale, low-complexity, or pre-industrial ways of organizing life.
How to interpret a technological score
The scale is about direction, not technical literacy. A person may welcome medical enhancement while opposing pervasive automation, or prefer low-tech communities while using modern medicine. Risk, access, and control matter as much as novelty.
Important limitation: A cautious score is not anti-science, and a transhumanist score does not mean accepting every invention. The questions measure willingness to transform human life, not whether technology is simply useful.
Questions and policy areas on this dimension
- Human enhancement and biotechnology
- Automation and artificial intelligence
- Resilience versus technological dependence
The quiz uses five statements for this axis, with both positively and negatively worded items. Your result is normalized to a percentage after applying the response weights described in the scoring methodology.
Transhumanism vs Primitivism FAQ
The technological axis compares enthusiasm for using technology to extend human capabilities with preference for simpler, lower-dependence ways of living.
No. A higher score only means your answers leaned toward Transhumanism on this set of trade-offs. The test does not treat either pole as more correct or desirable.
Yes. Political views are context-dependent, and most people combine ideas associated with both poles. The percentage summarizes the balance across five statements rather than imposing a pure category.