The transhuman condition is one of eternal becoming, always adding new possibilities and overcoming limits. The old grows into the new, the new into the different. As the diversity of being diverges, all attempts at prediction or containment fail.

Still, the Great Filter lurks on the threshold.

Taken as a whole, the biosphere would thus represent only a simple branch within and above other less progressive or less fortunate proliferations of pre-life... The universe had already begun to ramify and it doubtless goes on ramifying indefinitely...
Teilhard de Chardin