12.28.06

Wired 8.01: Don’t Die, Stay Pretty – Introducing the ultrahuman makeover

Posted in Texts about Transhumanism, Transhumanism at 11:55 am by rheil

Wired 8.01: Don’t Die, Stay Pretty – Introducing the ultrahuman makeover. [Wired, Jan 2000] (“The Extropians, of course, are techno-believers with boundless faith in science’s power to amp up human potential. Extro 4 is devoted to their favorite topics: life extension, and the utopian future they believe will come about thanks to 21st-century advances in genetic engineering, biochemistry, and medical technology. A little later, the scientists will hear the Extropy Institute’s founder, a chiseled, ponytailed philosophy PhD named Max More, confidently declare, “This is the fourth revolution in our history – the ultrahuman revolution.”)

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