In this joint production between Mormon Book Reviews and the newly-launched Mind Makes This World, Steven Pynakker and Nathan Smith speak with Latter-day Saints and transhumanists Lincoln Cannon and Carl Youngblood of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. In part 1 of this discussion, we discuss how one can be a Christian and still believe in the optimistic visions espoused by transhumanists of a world of divinely compassionate creators, discussing the causes for concern as well as hope in our world of accelerating technological development. #MormonTranshumanism #transhumanism #mindmakesthisworld