Op-Ed: Our Transhumanist Future

August 1, 2007

The great subject of transhumanism appears to be death, and how to imagine conquering it, in the absence of God. The enemy of the transhuman self becomes the body, which may be why sex figures so little on the agenda. People have made gods of many things, including sex and art, but we appear to be the first generation poised to worship our own software. Humans remain irreducibly religious beings, no matter how hard we try to deny it. (Yahoo! News)