Beyond The Human Race – And “Human-Racism”
J. Hughes is the executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, a professor at Trinity College Hartford, and author of the book Citizen Cyborg. Here he explains the idea of transhumanism – and its dark side. The problem with the idea of posthumanity is that the thing it is supposed to be…
Your Posthumanism Is Boring Me
Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009, Jamais Cascio is a futurist who writes about the environment, technology, and culture. Here he argues that yesterday’s posthumanism is today’s boring quotidian. We will never be posthuman, because we have always been posthuman. “Posthuman” is a term with more…
The Best-Case Scenario For Posthumanity, And Who Is Making It Happen
Futurist writer R.U. Sirius helped create Mondo 2000, runs posthumanist magazine H+, and has run for president. He was cyber before it was cool, and is still fomenting techno revolution. Here he offers an optimist’s vision of the posthuman future. Annalee has asked me to comment on what is the best-case scenario for posthumanity and…
