Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition History, Philosophy and Current Status /

• Main Author: Manzocco, Roberto (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Popular Science,
• Subjects: Technology.; Philosophy.; History.; Anthropology.; Epistemology.; Artificial intelligence.; Popular Science in Technology.; Philosophy of Technology.; History of Science.; Artificial Intelligence.

This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims to produce a "paradigm shift" in our ethical and political understanding of human evolution. Transhumanist thinkers want the human species to...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Technological Heaven
• Chapter 1. Stairways to the Sky
• Chapter 2. Across the transhumanist galaxy
• Chapter 3. A new Tower of Babel
• Chapter 4. Living forever
• Chapter 5. Plan B
• Chapter 6. Nanometric Cornucopia
• Chapter 7. The New Flesh rising
• Chapter 8. Trans-humans in the geopolitical arena
• Chapter 9. Colonizing the mind
• Chapter 10. Synthetic bodies, artificial minds
• Chapter 11. Toward a radical life expansion
• Chapter 12. Rapture of the Nerd
• Chapter 13. The light of the very far future
• Chapter 14. Transhumanism and science: a reality check
• Conclusion. Stealing God's Thunder.