| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages.) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The future in the past -- Discovering inhumanity -- Enabling inhumanity -- Perfecting inhumanity -- The real meaning of progress. |
| Summary |
Tomorrow has never looked better. Breakthroughs in fields like genetic engineering and nanotechnology promise to give us unprecedented power to redesign our bodies and our world. Futurists and activists tell us that we are drawing ever closer to a day when we will be as smart as computers, will be able to link our minds telepathically, and will live for centuries—or maybe forever. The perfection of a “post-human" future awaits us.Or so the story goes. In reality, the rush toward a post-human destiny amounts to an ideology of human extinction, an ideology that sees little of value in humanity e. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophical anthropology.
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Philosophical anthropology. |
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Human beings -- Forecasting.
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Human beings. |
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Forecasting. |
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Human evolution.
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Human evolution. |
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Human body -- Technological innovations.
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Human body. |
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Technological innovations. |
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Cyborgs.
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Cyborgs. |
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Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Humanity.
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Humanity. |
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Progress.
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Progress. |
| Indexed Term |
Transhumanism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781594037368 1594037361 (DLC) 2014022022 (OCoLC)858358751 |
| ISBN |
9781594037412 (electronic book) |
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1594037418 (electronic book) |
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9781594037368 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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1594037361 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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