Human technology is an incredible phenomenon. It’s something that grows exponentially: for every advance we make, our next advances are more varied and easier to attain. Our inventions are all around ...

Transhumanism is a contemporary worldview whose proponents seek to radically extend human life and grant humans enhancements in an effort to render them as powerful as possible. The first-ever ...

The sordid life of Jeffrey Epstein serves to highlight the decadence of the deplorable epoch in which we find ourselves, as do the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. The web of vice and ...

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What do pacemakers, prosthetic limbs, Iron Man and flu vaccines all have in common? They are examples of an old idea that's been gaining in significance in the last several decades: transhumanism. The ...

In the summer of 1990, I was running a pretty weird nightclub in the Roppongi neighborhood of Tokyo. I was deeply immersed in the global cyberpunk scene and working to bring the Tokyo node of this ...

“What is effected by Nominalism, as it is appropriated out of Occam’s intricate arguments, is an instrument of power over nature justified on the authority of autonomous intellect, whereby the ...

Do you remember The Six Million Dollar Man? It was a '70s American science-fiction television series based on the novel Cyborg, about a former astronaut, Colonel Steve Austin. After being seriously ...

Whilst the media reports on generational tremors taking place on the streets and campuses of the United States of America, and institutions stroke their metaphorical chins contemplating ways to change ...

A technician prepares a flow cell slide for loading onto a human DNA sequencing machine at a laboratory in New York. (REUTERS/Mike Segar) Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and ...