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'Takes the debate up a level (if not several levels) in terms of active and considered engagement with the future.' - BioCentre, http://bit.ly/rthOsV
'This is a brave and interesting book, which combines discourses that should mutually engage, but normally do not: biological and theological discussions of "humanity", discussions of transhumanism and evolution, and the policy discussions of convergent technology. Connecting them provides an opportunity to rethink the category of the human. Steve Fuller grasps this opportunity with gusto, in an accessible and wide-ranging overview.' - Professor Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, USA
'Humanity 2.0 offers a wide-ranging and timely account of the next stage of technoscience: the development of a new stage of humanity. Fuller bridges the concerns of science studies and science policy, exploring the historical and philosophical currents underlying the creation of a new biotechnological species, and highlights how the technoscientific industrial complex seeks to construct a new humanity as both product and consumer.' - Robert Frodeman, Director, Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity, University of North Texas, USA
'Our understanding of humanity is sure to evolve in the course of this century, and this book enables us to think critically about our prospects.' - The Scientific and Medical Network Review
'This is a brave and interesting book, which combines discourses that should mutually engage, but normally do not: biological and theological discussions of "humanity", discussions of transhumanism and evolution, and the policy discussions of convergent technology. Connecting them provides an opportunity to rethink the category of the human. Steve Fuller grasps this opportunity with gusto, in an accessible and wide-ranging overview.' - Professor Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, USA
'Humanity 2.0 offers a wide-ranging and timely account of the next stage of technoscience: the development of a new stage of humanity. Fuller bridges the concerns of science studies and science policy, exploring the historical and philosophical currents underlying the creation of a new biotechnological species, and highlights how the technoscientific industrial complex seeks to construct a new humanity as both product and consumer.' - Robert Frodeman, Director, Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity, University of North Texas, USA
'Our understanding of humanity is sure to evolve in the course of this century, and this book enables us to think critically about our prospects.' - The Scientific and Medical Network Review
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'Takes the debate up a level (if not several levels) in terms of active and considered engagement with the future.' - BioCentre, http://bit.ly/rthOsV 'This is a brave and interesting book, which combines discourses that should mutually engage, but normally do not: biological and theological discussions of "humanity", discussions of transhumanism and evolution, and the policy discussions of convergent technology. Connecting them provides an opportunity to rethink the category of the human. Steve Fuller grasps this opportunity with gusto, in an accessible and wide-ranging overview.' - Professor Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, USA 'Humanity 2.0 offers a wide-ranging and timely account of the next stage of technoscience: the development of a new stage of humanity. Fuller bridges the concerns of science studies and science policy, exploring the historical and philosophical currents underlying the creation of a new biotechnological species, and highlights how the technoscientific industrial complex seeks to construct a new humanity as both product and consumer.' - Robert Frodeman, Director, Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity, University of North Texas, USA 'Our understanding of humanity is sure to evolve in the course of this century, and this book enables us to think critically about our prospects.' - The Scientific and Medical Network Review
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`Humanity 2.0' are the various ways in which people are already thinking (and doing, in some cases) about their lives that go beyond the standard conception of the free-standing human. Fuller sees the entire issue as a secular, techno-scientific version of long-standing theological debates that go back to the Middle Ages. The basic question is: Should we become more re-embedded in nature or blast off into the spirit world. In the Middle Ages it was a battle between pagans and Christians, now it's between animal lovers and cyberfreaks. This is the tabloid version of how Fuller sees the issue. I was at the book launch at the Royal Society of Arts in London a couple of weeks ago. There was a very interesting debate (you can find it online) about how new and subtle forms of eugenics play into this space. One of the panellists, the dystopian science-fiction writer China Mieville, became very disturbed by Fuller's view that we are due for a serious culture clash that may be resolved by people coming to give a more positive spin on death, even at a mass level. I strongly recommend the book for provocations like this, but you need to realize that Fuller isn't really interested in the gee whiz side of `Humanity 2.0' but in how it's getting us to re-think our past as a way of leveraging into a new future. Several interviews are already available of Fuller concerning this book are on the web. He basically supports the cyberfreak transhumanists but without the rose-coloured libertarian spectacles that these people often wear. In an exchange with Mieville at the RSA, he described himself as a kind of `Cold Warrior' of transhumanism, presumably analogous to the Cold War defenders of democracy (whose spectacles were anything but rose-coloured). The book confirms that image.
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