Transhumanism: The Most Dangerous Idea?
"But Fukuyama would undoubtedly respond that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers are still recognizably human, no different in their innate capacities than people living today. What transhumanists seek is very different. They want to go beyond current innate human capacities. They want to change human bodies and brains."
A must-read that underscores exactly what's wrong with Fukuyama's reasoning. His book on the potentials of the biotech revolution, "Our Posthuman Future," is a blinkered, neophobic rant that, of course, fooled just about everybody.
Read my review here.
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