Happiness, Freedom, and Transhumanism
Our friend Roger Scruton, who has an essay in the forthcoming Summer issue of The New Atlantis, has a new book coming...
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Why Transhumanism Won’t Work
[NOTE: From time to time, we invite guest contributors to Futurisms. This post is from Mark A. Gubrud, who has written...
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...
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...
“Transhumanists Have a Problem”
In a post that went up on his blog over the weekend, Michael Anissimov sketched out what he considers a potentially...
Our Doppelgängered Future?
David Foster Wallace → Russell Crowe? The gentle Facebooking reader will likely have noticed the news-feed trend...
Why So Unserious? (Thoughts on Transhumanism and Politics)
A few days ago here on Futurisms, commenter Kurt9 made an interesting point: “The idea that our cutting-edge science,...
On Lizardman and Liberalism
In post called “Getting Used to Hideousness,” Mike Treder makes three points. Each is provocative — and flawed....
The Mainstreaming of Transhumanism
Congratulations to Nick Bostrom, Jamais Cascio, and Ray Kurzweil for being recognized as three of Foreign Policy...
The Significance of Man
Over at Gizmodo, Jesus Diaz has called attention to a genuinely lovely animation of Earth’s weather from August...