My recent article on China might be relevant here, if great social cohesion is needed for transhumanism. Maybe this will be China's century in that atheistic collectivism will overcome American individualism, and unite us in the rebellion against nature.

Differences in degree become differences in kind since kinds are abstractions and simplifications. It's a matter of emphasizing differences to reflect our interests.

Why would we expect our technology and existential rebellion to have already dramatically reshaped the universe? We've only been at it for some thousands of years. The dinosaurs were around for millions.