… We think that Francis Fukuyama has thoroughly analyzed this issue in his Our Post-human
Future (Fukuyama, 2002) and thus, there is no need to consider it in our research in detail. …

… of better biotech weapons. Wise people, such as the famous 20 th century physicist Stephen
Hawking, understood this decades prior to our biotech revolution. In 1996, Hawking wrote: …

… The posthuman has been looming large on the human horizon lately… posthuman future
could possibly mean, and the tension between a technological-scientific prospect of posthumanity …

… that biotechnology could challenge the cultural authority of western humanism is best
captured by the historian Francis Fukuyama in his cautionary book Our Posthuman Future. Here …

… out a possible posthuman future in 2045 and beyond. The core argument of the book
derives from Kurzweil’s “law” of accelerating returns, which holds that on the present annual …

… Thus, we agree with Francis Fukuyama, who believes that the future achievements of the ‘biotechnology
revolution’ should be accepted with great prudence (Fukuyama 2002). …

… Rose’s opening argument is that biomedicine and biotechnology is transforming our
social landscapes, recasting the core of our identities and our cultural relations. He writes, for …

… Gilbert Hottois and Jean-François Mattei have deciphered transhumanism to question its
alleged “humanism” and study its impact on our humanity. Today, science has gone further …

… Thus, for example, in his work Our Posthuman Future he emphasizes that “science itself
can not set the goals and the limits it is intended to achieve” [6, p.93]. F. Fucuyama is rather …

… This article discusses ideas about the posthuman future within Anglophone transhumanism
in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the prism of their conceptualizations of …