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Intro; Introduction: Gilgamesh Versus the Dragon-Tyrant; One Man Against Mortality; Hubris, Anyone?; The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant; Negentropy Versus Thermal Death; Spoiler Alert; Contents; 1: Stairways to the Sky; 1.1 Climbing the Slope, Looking for a Purpose; 1.2 The Nietzschean Knot…; 1.3 …and the Futurist One; 1.4 The "Project"; 1.5 Russian Visions…; 1.6 …and Polish Musings; 1.7 Christian Superman; 1.8 The Anglo-American Dream; 2: A New Tower of Babel; 2.1 The Most Radical of the Revolts; 2.2 How It All Started; 2.3 The One Hundred Flowers of Transhumanism
2.4 Journey Through the Transhumanist Galaxy2.5 Transhumanism, That Is, Never Let Anything Remain Untried; 2.6 The Who's Who of Transhumanism; 2.7 The Pillars of Transhumanism; 2.8 Critique of Transhumanist Reason; 2.9 The Knot of Post-Humanism; 2.10 The Religious Question; 3: Living Forever; 3.1 The Keystone; 3.2 One More Sip of Life; 3.3 A Few Answers from Biology; 3.4 Prometheus Unchained; 3.5 The Phoenix 2.0; 3.6 Three Bridges to Eternity; 3.7 Fighting Aging Today; 4: Plan B; 4.1 Upside Down, in Liquid Nitrogen; 4.2 How Do You Freeze - pardon me, "Suspend" - A Patient
4.3 Cryonics' Prices, Not for the Faint of Heart4.4 The Almighty Science of the Future; 4.5 A History of Cryonics, from Benjamin Franklin to Nano-Machines; 4.6 Science's Take; 4.7 Anthropology of the Average Cryonicist; 5: Nanometer Cornucopia; 5.1 The ABCs of the Nano-world; 5.2 Nano-mania, or the Two Souls of Nanotechnology; 5.3 There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom; 5.4 The Engines of Creation; 5.5 Nano-schism. The Drexler-Smalley Debate, and Beyond; 5.6 Flesh and Computronium; 5.7 The Amazing Bio-medical Nano-machines of Dr. Freitas; 5.8 Nothing Ever Happens in Fog City
6: The New Flesh Rising6.1 More than Human; 6.2 Genetic Doping, Nootropics and Other Amenities; 6.3 Do-It-Yourself Super-Powers; 6.4 Imagination and Military Power; 6.5 The Flesh of the Future; 7: Colonizing the Mind; 7.1 Behind Our Eyes; 7.2 Neurotechnologies: The State of the Art; 7.3 Escaping from the Body; 7.4 Unlimited Intelligence; 8: The Bright Day of the Soul; 8.1 The Hedonistic Imperative; 8.2 Reprogramming Predators; 8.3 A Nightmarish Brave New World?; 8.4 The Bio-Intelligence Explosion; 8.5 Saving the Multiverse, One Timeline After the Other
8.6 If you Meet the Buddha on the Road, Engineer Him9: All Hail the Technological Singularity; 9.1 In Thirty Years; 9.2 The People of Tomorrow; 9.3 End of Life: Never; 9.4 Welcome to Weirdtopia; 9.5 After Language; 9.6 Colonizing the Universe in Eight Easy Steps; 9.7 Great Maneuvers at the Border of the Cosmos; 9.8 Hacking the World; 10: The God-Builders; 10.1 The Transhumanist End-Game; 10.2 The Order of the Cosmic Engineers; 10.3 From Transhumanism to Religion, and Back; 10.4 Engineering Transcendence and the Cosmist "Third Way"; 10.5 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
2.4 Journey Through the Transhumanist Galaxy2.5 Transhumanism, That Is, Never Let Anything Remain Untried; 2.6 The Who's Who of Transhumanism; 2.7 The Pillars of Transhumanism; 2.8 Critique of Transhumanist Reason; 2.9 The Knot of Post-Humanism; 2.10 The Religious Question; 3: Living Forever; 3.1 The Keystone; 3.2 One More Sip of Life; 3.3 A Few Answers from Biology; 3.4 Prometheus Unchained; 3.5 The Phoenix 2.0; 3.6 Three Bridges to Eternity; 3.7 Fighting Aging Today; 4: Plan B; 4.1 Upside Down, in Liquid Nitrogen; 4.2 How Do You Freeze - pardon me, "Suspend" - A Patient
4.3 Cryonics' Prices, Not for the Faint of Heart4.4 The Almighty Science of the Future; 4.5 A History of Cryonics, from Benjamin Franklin to Nano-Machines; 4.6 Science's Take; 4.7 Anthropology of the Average Cryonicist; 5: Nanometer Cornucopia; 5.1 The ABCs of the Nano-world; 5.2 Nano-mania, or the Two Souls of Nanotechnology; 5.3 There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom; 5.4 The Engines of Creation; 5.5 Nano-schism. The Drexler-Smalley Debate, and Beyond; 5.6 Flesh and Computronium; 5.7 The Amazing Bio-medical Nano-machines of Dr. Freitas; 5.8 Nothing Ever Happens in Fog City
6: The New Flesh Rising6.1 More than Human; 6.2 Genetic Doping, Nootropics and Other Amenities; 6.3 Do-It-Yourself Super-Powers; 6.4 Imagination and Military Power; 6.5 The Flesh of the Future; 7: Colonizing the Mind; 7.1 Behind Our Eyes; 7.2 Neurotechnologies: The State of the Art; 7.3 Escaping from the Body; 7.4 Unlimited Intelligence; 8: The Bright Day of the Soul; 8.1 The Hedonistic Imperative; 8.2 Reprogramming Predators; 8.3 A Nightmarish Brave New World?; 8.4 The Bio-Intelligence Explosion; 8.5 Saving the Multiverse, One Timeline After the Other
8.6 If you Meet the Buddha on the Road, Engineer Him9: All Hail the Technological Singularity; 9.1 In Thirty Years; 9.2 The People of Tomorrow; 9.3 End of Life: Never; 9.4 Welcome to Weirdtopia; 9.5 After Language; 9.6 Colonizing the Universe in Eight Easy Steps; 9.7 Great Maneuvers at the Border of the Cosmos; 9.8 Hacking the World; 10: The God-Builders; 10.1 The Transhumanist End-Game; 10.2 The Order of the Cosmic Engineers; 10.3 From Transhumanism to Religion, and Back; 10.4 Engineering Transcendence and the Cosmist "Third Way"; 10.5 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night