ISBN:
9781602358775
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Statement:
Rhetoric of Science and Technology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technology-Philosophy
;
Human-machine systems
;
Technological forecasting
;
Humanism
;
Singularities (Artificial intelligence)
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
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