Book Reviews

April 26, 2006

The latest edition of The New Atlantis has a review of four books written from a transhumanist perspective:

• Ramez Naam’s More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement
• James Hughes’s Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future
• Joel Garreau’s Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—And What It Means to Be Human
• Michael Chorost’s Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

In analyzing these books, the author of the review, Charles T. Rubin (associate professor of political science at Duquesne University), is trying to understand their “style of argument,” which he labels “a rhetoric of extinction.” It’s an insightful article; well worth your time.