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The goal of transhumanists is to improve human beings so they will perform better. In doing so, they contribute above all else to creating people perfectly suited to capitalism.
It’s important to step back and take a critical look at this movement through the lens of sociology. Why? Because transhumanists seem less interested in promoting any kind of evolution than in radically renouncing politics. That’s where the problem lies.
Transhumanism emerged in the early 1990s in the United States. The term refers to an influential movement that unites a diverse group of entrepreneurs, researchers and philosophers who share the same ambition: using technological and biomedical advances to improve human beings’ physical, intellectual and emotional performance.
Their ultimate goal is to reach a new stage in our evolution where human beings will live forever, free from all forms of biological determinism.
Fuelling wild claims
Transhumanism has become the subject of genuine fascination, as well as an inevitable and controversial topic of social debate. Crystallizing the hopes, fears and fantasies of our time, it has inspired increasingly sensationalist claims.
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