Posthuman Blues

Virtual Humans Proposed As Space Travelers





"'We humans, I think, are hungry to bond with machines . . . and I don't understand that at all,' Plantec said. 'Wouldn't it be interesting if it was a natural instinct that was the next part of our evolution? I really believe that, eventually, these things will evolve into a quasi-life form and we will form symbiotic relationships with them.'"