ISBN:
1602358753
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9781602358751
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
viii, 231 Seiten
,
1 Portrait [des Verfassers]
Ausgabe:
First edition
DDC:
303.48/3
Schlagwort(e):
Technology Philosophy
;
Human-machine systems
;
Technological forecasting
;
Humanism
;
Singularities (Artificial intelligence)
;
Artificial intelligence
;
Biotechnology
;
Genetic engineering
;
Human body
;
Longevity
;
Medical innovations
;
Medical technology
;
Humanwissenschaften
;
Transhumanismus
;
Technischer Fortschritt
Kurzfassung:
Myth and rhetoric -- Envisioning the technofuture : antecedents -- Progress, inevitability, singularity -- From natural selection to spiritual evolution -- Life as information -- Enhanced brains, connected minds -- Enhanced humans and posthumans -- Extending life, ending death -- Artificial intelligence, superintelligence and emergent gods -- Posthumans in space
