Eclipse of man : human extinction and the meaning of progress /

Eclipse of man : human extinction and the meaning of progress /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rubin, Charles T., author.
Edition:	First American edition.
Imprint:	New York, New York : New Atlantis Books, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (223 pages.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophical anthropology. Human beings -- Forecasting. Human evolution. Human body -- Technological innovations. Cyborgs. Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Humanity. Progress. Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Cyborgs. Human evolution. Humanity. Philosophical anthropology. Progress. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239609

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ISBN:	9781594037412 (electronic bk.) 1594037418 (electronic bk.) 9781594037368 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1594037361 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
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 centuriesor 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.
Other form:	Original 9781594037368 1594037361

Table of Contents:

The future in the past
Discovering inhumanity
Enabling inhumanity
Perfecting inhumanity
The real meaning of progress.