In her new book, Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism, Susan B. Levin, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, offers what Bruce Jennings of Vanderbilt ...

Many influential figures hope that developments in brain-computer interfaces, artificial general intelligence (AGI), and genetic engineering will usher in a new transhumanist era. But what exactly is ...

The gods of old are gone from this world, replaced by smartphones and touchscreens and social media. These are the new gods, the ones to which we bow down. Instead of putting trust in a higher reality ...

In the summer of 1990, I was running a pretty weird nightclub in the Roppongi neighborhood of Tokyo. I was deeply immersed in the global cyberpunk scene and working to bring the Tokyo node of this ...

On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, by Meghan O’Gieblyn on transhumanism and Christian narratives of resurrection. Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring ...

Transhumanism is a contemporary worldview whose proponents seek to radically extend human life and grant humans enhancements in an effort to render them as powerful as possible. The first-ever ...

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With films about the symbiosis of man and machine like Transcendence and Her, Hollywood’s had an epiphany: to be human is to be transhuman. Jason Silva is the creator of Shots of Awe, the digital web ...

Do you remember The Six Million Dollar Man? It was a '70s American science fiction television series based on the novel Cyborg, about a former astronaut Colonel Steve Austin. After being seriously ...