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“A deceptively light treatment of mind-blowing technologies and their cultural, social and political impact. This book will put your mind on fire.”—Giulio Prisco, Hacked.com   Transhumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the natural limitations experienced by humanity, through such developments as:   the Singularity—the creation of machine intelligences that exceed the capacities of our biological brains the ability to replicate individual minds and put them into solid-state bodies or virtual environments individual control over mental and emotional states for enhancing functionalities and/or ecstasies   Some of this is happening now. Some it is still in the minds of dreamers.   In nearly ninety A-Z entries, Transcendence provides a multilayered look at the accelerating advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, genomics, information technology, nanotechnology, neuroscience, space exploration, synthetic biology, robotics, and virtual worlds that are making transhumanism a reality. Entries range from Cloning and Cyborg Feminism to Designer Babies and Memory-Editing Drugs. In addition, the book notes historical p

Who reads Transcendence : The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity?

Author

R. U. Sirius & Jay Cornell

Publisher

Disinformation Books, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781938875090

Category

science

Subjects

Computer Science, Fiction, Technology

Rating

3.7 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14