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James A. Herrick
Visions of Technological Transcendence
- Parlor Press
- 2017
- Gebunden
- 240 Seiten
- ISBN 9781602358768
The human enhancement movement-with Transhumanism as its best-known and most influential manifestation-promotes dramatic mental and physical augmentations to be realized by the radical and coordinated appropriation of biotechnology and computer science. Goals of Transhumanism include immortality, the merger of humans and machines, human-level artificial intelligence, and space colonization. The discourse of human enhancement is marked by the imminent emergence of a posthuman species and the culmination of human history in a technological upheaval referred to as the Singularity. Visions of Technological Transcendence approaches the rhetoric of human enhancement as a system of mythic narratives, each developing around a key tenet of enhancement thought. These strategic stories
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