Against Transhumanism – the e-book

Transhumanism: technically wrong, ideologically suspect, and damaging to the way we talk about technology…

As an experiment, I’ve brought together a number of the pieces I’ve written here and elsewhere about molecular nanotechnology, mind-uploading, and the origins and wider implications of transhumanism, to make, after some light editing, a 54-page e-book with the title “Against Transhumanism: the delusion of technological transcendence”.

It can be downloaded as a PDF here:
Against Transhumanism, v1.0 (PDF 7.1 MB).

6 thoughts on “Against Transhumanism – the e-book”

  4. Callum, not sure about doing it as an .epub, I’m a novice at this stuff, but I chose PDF as the most platform-independent format. I may wait for the next edition for others…

    Giulio, thanks for the review. “I really believe Jones is a transhumanist already. He just didn’t realize yet”… I’m really not, I’m much too much of a miserable git in my outlook!

  5. Richard, “I really believe Jones is a transhumanist already. He just didn’t realize yet” is a comment left by a reader, to which I replied:

    “I would call Jones a transhumanist in the sense that he is open to the possibility that even the most visionary transhumanist aspirations might eventually come true, and he isn’t against that possibility (or at least he doesn’t say so). He isn’t a transhumanist in the sense that he doesn’t believe that visionary transhumanist technologies are imminent, but then, I don’t believe that either.”

  6. Will read with avid interest. Thanx for making it available for free as well. That is science and knowledge and sentience all combined exceptionally well

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