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Visions of Technological Transcendence
Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future
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Visions of Technological Transcendence
Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future
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This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Myth and Rhetoric
- 3 Envisioning the Technofuture: Antecedents
- 4 Progress, Inevitability, Singularity
- 5 From Natural Selection to Spiritual Evolution
- 6 Life as Information
- 7 Enhanced Brains, Connected Minds
- 8 Enhanced Humans and Posthumans
- 9 Extending Life, Ending Death
- 10 Artificial Intelligence, Superintelligence and Emergent Gods
- 11 Posthumans in Space
- 12 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Back cover