The history from wikipedia: >The biologist Julian Huxley popularised the term "transhumanism" in a 1957 essay.[ The contemporary meaning of the term was foresh

The history from wikipedia: >The biologist Julian Huxley popularised the term "transhumanism" in a 1957 essay.[ The contemporary meaning of the term was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, a man who changed his name to FM-2030. In the 1960s, he taught "new concepts of the human" at The New School when he began to identify people who adopt technologies, lifestyles, and worldviews "transitional" to posthumanity as "transhuman".[7] The assertion laid the intellectual groundwork for the British philosopher Max More Huxley was British, The New School was in NYC, More also British. I'm not sure you can pin it all on NorCal.