Bookforum Omnivore - About Transhumanism

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, a collection of links on transhumanism, from the technological singularity, to multiple singularities (then wouldn't that mean they are not singular?), to biological enhanced soldiers, to philosopher Colin McGinn dismantling the ideas and presumptions of the new book from Ray Kurzweil.


About transhumanism

MAR 8 2013 

12:00PM

• From Transhumanity, is the “technological singularity” plausible? Extropia DaSilva wonders. 
• The world’s most eminent sociologist, Anthony Giddens, highlights the technological singularity. 
• Could more than one singularity happen at the same time? Rick Searle wants to know. 
• Selena Erkızan on science fiction and the future of human beings: Imagination, evolution and the anthropocentric myths. 
• David Roden on Aristotelian posthumans. 
• Gennady Stolyarov on common misconceptions about transhumanism: Is it a cult that seeks to destroy humanity? 
• Adam Ford interviews IEET Executive Director James J. Hughes. 
• The Age of Enhancement: Technology is starting to give us superpowers once reserved for comic-book heroes. 
• A look at why it could be a war crime to use biologically enhanced soldiers. 
• Homunculism: Colin McGinn reviews How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil.