I expect that humans will shortly collectively gain far more power than our minds can presently comprehend, and that much of this power will be capable of being wielded by individuals. It seems quite obvious to me that steps will be taken to ensure that people who cannot play nicely with others will be prevented from having access to such power."

There's a song by Orbital off of the Blue Album that derives its voice sample from the BBC miniseries The Second Coming.

In the script the excerpt looks like this;

"You, are becoming Gods. There's a new master of creation, and it's you! Unraveled DNA, and at the same time you're cultivating bacteria strong enough to kill every living thing! Do you think you are ready for that much power? You lot? You lot? Cheeky bastards. You're running around science like kids with guns, creating a new world, while the world you've got is stinking, but, hands up, hands up anyone who thinks you've got it right. Yeah, there's always one. I can see you. If you want the position of God then take the responsibility."

So one could argue that easily angered primates have never been selective about only the ethical getting to wield dangerous power.

But I think that the big difference here is information and perspective.

Its been too easy in the past for tribes and clans barely emerged from the neolithic to play with TNT. Their weapons grow powerful but their perspective is barely hominid.

The transcendent power you speak of IS the information and the perspective.

And for once I suspect that you might not have gone far enough in your optimism :)

I believe that the only way we will wield this power is to become transhuman, and that transcendence will be as transformative as the ecstatic experience.

The Antis will have no choice, ascend and have the scales fall from their eyes, or be left behind.

I'm sure that for the duration and to the extent that the transhuman bother to hang around the cradle, that they will be gentle and treat the resisting Antis as ethical patients; like an old family pet or a tree you once swung from in childhood.

But since Antis can't seem to resist power over others, even the imaginary kind, I suspect that they're in for the surprise of their lives just as they cast off their old life and enter Godhood.

Its like the jokes about Jihadists in Hell; except that there is no Hell, and that the perspective providing the punchline confers the power. They will get that the joke is on them, and in doing so ascend.

* Makes obligatory reference to Zen Koans *

Dante