Transhumanists are searching for a dystopian future
As part of a Washington Post series this week about transhumanism, our own Charles T. Rubin offers some...
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CRISPR and the Human Species
Over at Tech Crunch, Jamie Metzl writes that we need to have a “species-wide conversation” about the use of...
Toward a Typology of Transhumanism
Years ago, James Hughes sought to typify the emerging political debate over transhumanism with a three-axis political...
Future Selves
In the latest issue of the Claremont Review of Books, political philosopher Mark Blitz — a professor at Claremont...
Transhumanism, Freedom, and Coercion
Transhumanists believe that natural human limitations can, or should, or even must be overcome, via biotechnology,...
Human Flourishing or Human Rejection?
Sometimes, when we criticize transhumanism here on Futurisms, we are accused of being Luddites, of being...
Our new book on transhumanism: Eclipse of Man
Since we launched The New Atlantis, questions about human enhancement, artificial intelligence, and the future of...
Transhumanists: The Once and Future Christians?
Charles Stross recently claimed that he had found some roots for transhumanism in the relatively obscure Russian...
“Fixed” — A New Documentary on Disability and Transhumanism
I recently attended a rough-cut screening of Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, a new documentary by...
Immortality: timeless truths, or enshrined experiences?
I’m a little surprised that in their big-tent quest for legitimacy, transhumanists have not claimed Aristotle as one...