Sublime

with the help of genetic engineering, nanotechnology and brain–computer interfaces.

eukaryotic

Due to an uncompromising humanist belief in the sanctity of human life, we keep people alive till they reach such a pitiful state that we are forced to ask, ‘What exactly is so sacred here?’ Due to similar humanist beliefs, in the twenty-first century we are likely to push humankind as a whole beyond its limits. The same technologies that can upgra

The new projects of the twenty-first century – gaining immortality, bliss and divinity – also hope to serve the whole of humankind. However, because these projects aim at surpassing rather than safeguarding the norm, they may well result in the creation of a new superhuman caste that will abandon its liberal roots and treat normal humans no better

Peter Montague refers in his previously cited 1999 article to the level of awareness of the problem that existed in the 1970s, “Technical mastery of natural forces was leading not to safety and well being, but to a careless and accelerating dispersal of dangerous poisons into the biosphere with consequences impossible to predict.”

To maintain order and structure in an evolving system requires the continual supply and use of energy whose by-product is disorder.