Toward a Typology of Transhumanism
Years ago, James Hughes sought to typify the emerging political debate over transhumanism with a three-axis political...
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“Fixed” — A New Documentary on Disability and Transhumanism
I recently attended a rough-cut screening of Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, a new documentary by...
James Hughes, the Enlightenment, and the radiant future
[Continuing coverage of the 2010 H+ Summit at Harvard.] James Hughes had the morning talk after Patrick Hopkins. He...
Mannequinned space travel
According to NASA, a humanoid robot will be sent into space for the first time later this year. Perhaps fittingly...
The Superintelligent Despot (Still Another Response to James Hughes)
As in the other essays in his series on the problems of transhumanism, in “Liberal Democracy vs. Technocratic...
Why Hope?: Transhumanism and the Arts (Another Response to James Hughes)
In another of the series of posts to which Professor Rubin recently responded, James Hughes argues that transhumanism...
The Transhuman and the Postmodern (A Further Response to James Hughes)
My previous post on transhumanism and morality elicited a response from James Hughes, whose recent series of...
Transhuman Morality 2.0 (Responding to James Hughes)
I don’t know if I’d take his intellectual history to the bank, but James Hughes is dealing with some serious issues...
“The means to make the man of the future”
The impulse to redesign humanity is not new, and turns up in surprising places once you start paying attention to it....