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Visions of technological transcendence : human enhancement and the rhetoric of the future / James A. Herrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herrick, James A., author.
- Series:
- Rhetoric of science and technology.
- Rhetoric of science and technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- Human-machine systems.
- Technological forecasting.
- Humanism.
- Singularities (Artificial intelligence).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781602358782
- 1602358788
- 9781602358775
- 160235877X
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