RADICAL EVOLUTION THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF ENHANCING OUR MINDS, OUR BODIES–AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HUMAN
This is a great book I read it immediately after reading the Christian books I posted earlier that had a backfire effect on me. They were supposed to scare me away from emerging technologies but instead they put me on the cutting edge of technologies where I love it and wish to remain! This book is about our post human future. Many of us wish to become transhuman! That is we seek immortality and enhanced physical and intellectual abilities by means of merging our flesh lay bodies with technologies making us cyborgs in essence but the real world term is not cyborg its post human or transhuman. This what I hope to be and it is how I cope with the fact that there’s no after life. One day and I think one day very soon. The technology will exist to stop death!! I highly recommend this book!!
Taking us behind the scenes with today’s foremost researchers and pioneers, bestselling author Joel Garreau shows that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through advances in genetic, robotic, information, and nanotechnologies, we are altering our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, our progeny–and perhaps our very souls. Radical Evolution reveals that the powers of our comic-book superheroes already exist, or are in development in hospitals, labs, and research facilities around the country–from the revved-up reflexes and speed of Spider-Man and Superman, to the enhanced mental acuity and memory capabilities of an advanced species. Over the next fifteen years, Garreau makes clear in this New York Times Book Club premiere selection, these enhancements will become part of our everyday lives. Where will they lead us? To heaven–where technology’s promise to make us smarter, vanquish illness, and extend our lives is the answer to our prayers? Or, as some argue, to hell–where unrestrained technology brings about the ultimate destruction of our species? https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Evolution-Promise-Enhancing-Bodies/dp/0767915038
K’innel. £41.80 for a paperback on Amazon. Any chance you want to give your copy away? How come religious bs is so cheap and plentiful, but secular and scientific tomes are often eyewateringly expensive?
Edit: As you were I’ve found a few cheap copies on ebay…
