Transhumanism
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Transhumanism is an intellectual and cultural movement that advocates using existing, emerging, and speculative technologies to enhance humans beyond current natural limitations, particularly by exten
Julian Huxley, the biologist who popularised the term transhumanism in an influential 1957 essay
Ray Kurzweil believes that a countdown to when "human life will be irreversibly transformed" can be made through plotting major world events on a graph.
In the U.S., the Amish are a religious group known for their avoidance of certain modern technologies. Transhumanists draw a parallel by arguing that in the near future there will probably be "humanish", people who choose to "stay human" by not adopting human enhancement technologies. They believe their choice must be respected and protected.
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Ray Kurzweil
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Raymond Kurzweil is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recog
Transhumanism
…intelligence beginning in the 1960s. Over the succeeding decades, this field continued to generate influential thinkers, such as Hans Moravec and Ray Kurzweil, who oscillated between the technical arena and futuristic speculations in the transhumanist vein. An identifiable transhumanist movement began to…
Kurzweil in 2017
Raymond Kurzweil at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University in 2006