Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens

COVER
 TITLE PAGE
 COPYRIGHT
 EDITORIAL BOARD
 CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION: TRANS-, POST-, AND EMERGING HUMANS: WHAT DO WE MEAN?
 BETWEEN PROGRESS AND ARMAGEDDON: THE STAKES OF OUR TIME
 The Gospel Of Progress
 Dystopia And Armageddon
 Imagining A Posthuman World
 Summary
 Bibliography
 ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES (STS)
 Defining STS: Science And Technology Studies Or Science, Technology, And Society?
 Essential Concepts In STS
 STS And Posthumanism
 Summary
 Bibliography
 CAN WE PREDICT THE MIDDLE-TERM FUTURE?
 Early Predictors: A Brief History Of Prediction. Predicting StormsEconomics
 Bioscience
 What Models Tell Us
 Not-so-super Forecasters
 Summary
 Bibliography
 IS MIND UPLOADING A REAL POSSIBILITY?
 The Concept Of Mind Uploading
 The Problem With Ghosts
 The Problem With Branches
 Summary
 Bibliography
 THE PREHISTORY OF THE POSTHUMAN
 The Transhumanized Human: The Posthuman Of The Fourteenth Century
 Early Modern Precedents: Intelligent Tools- Humans Extending Beyond Their Bodies
 Teilhard De Chardin: The Internet Of Human Minds
 McLuhan: A Global Village Connected By A Web Of Electric Media
 Summary
 Bibliography
 PHARMACEUTICALS. The Mid-twentieth-century Emergence Of NeuropharmacologyPharmaceutical Regulation And The Tranquilizer Era
 Cosmetic Psychopharmacology And Neurology
 Pharmaceuticalization Of Life And Health
 Pharmacological Optimism
 Pharmaceutical Cyborgs
 Posthumanism, Feminism, And The New Materialism
 Pharmaceutical Personhood And Performance
 Drugs As Tools For Posthuman Selfhood
 Summary
 Bibliography
 BIOELECTRONICS
 The Body Electric
 The Body Cybernetic
 The Body Electronic
 The Body Photonic
 Prosthetic Gods
 Summary
 Bibliography
 GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS
 How Genes Help To Make You Who You Are. Nature And NurtureToday's State Of The Art In Human Genetic Interventions
 The Possibility Of Designer Babies
 Knowing That You Were Partially Designed
 Epigenetics: A New Pathway For Genetic Modification?
 Artificial Chromosomes?
 A Superhuman Civilization Of Genetically Modified Humans
 Summary
 Bibliography
 REJUVENATION AND RADICALLY INCREASED HEALTH SPANS
 The Three Stages Of The Superlongevity Revolution
 The Global Mission To Extend The Human Life Span
 The Ultrahuman Phenomenon: Expanding And Transforming Human Potential
 Ultrahuman Or Transhuman. Adjusting To The Superlongevity RevolutionSummary
 Bibliography
 RUNAWAY AI
 The Singularity Defined
 What Is Exponential Growth?
 Singularities In Mathematics And Physics
 How Will The Singularity Be Achieved?
 Why The Singularity May Never Be Reached
 Implications Of The Technological Singularity
 The End Of Humanity?
 Summary
 Bibliography
 A SKEPTIC'S PERSPECTIVE: IS THIS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN?
 A Skeptic Weighs In
 The Fallacy Of Technological Determinism
 A Middle Way Between Techno-enthusiasm And Techno-skepticism
 Summary
 Bibliography
 BUDDHIST UPLOADS
 Self/no-self
 Woman/man.