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"The author initiated the cryonics movement with an earlier book, The Prospect of Immortality. There are now several organizations freezing people after clinical death and storing them in liquid nitrogen to await rescue by future technology--revival, repair, rejuvenation, and improvement.
Dare we be different? Dare we not?
If we outgrow humanity (present style), what comes next?
You may not like the author's answers--but you will surely find them interesting at least. At most, they will help you and your family escape oblivion and fulfill your grandest dreams."

1989 PREFACE: THE TRANSHUMAN CONDITION
PREFACE: SUPERMAN IN THE FIRST AND SECOND PERSON
Chapter 1 THE SCULPTOR SCULPTED
Chapter 2 THE DEFICIENCIES OF NATURAL MAN
Chapter 3 FROM GILGAMESH TO OLAF STAPLEDON
Chapter 4 CHANGES IN THE CHASSIS
Chapter 5 TRANSSEX AND SUPERSEX
Chapter 6 GROWING PAINS
Chapter 7 MORALITY FOR IMMORTALS
Chapter 8 THE PENULTIMATE TRUMP
Chapter 9 TUESDAY IN ETERNITY
Chapter 10 COPOUTS AND DROPOUTS:
THE THREAT OF IMMORTALITY
Chapter 11 CRYONICS AND THE NEW MELIORISM
APPENDIX
REFERENCES AND NOTES
INDEX

Commenti

Il transumanismo nella visione del fondatore del movimento crionico.

Keywords

postumano, evoluzione, evolution, posthuman, technology, cryonics, crionica, immortalism, bioetica, politica,