@article{939987,
      recid = {939987},
      author = {Murnane, Ben,},
      title = {Ayn Rand and the posthuman : the mind-made future /},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 197 pages)},
      abstract = {Ayn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American  novelist's relationship with twenty-first-century ideas  about technology. Rand wrote science fiction that has  inspired Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, politicians, and  economists. Ben Murnane demonstrates Rand's connection to,  and impact on, those with a "posthuman" vision, in which  human and machine merge. The text examines the  philosophical intersections between Rand's philosophy of  Objectivism and posthumanism, and Rand's influence on  transhumanism, a major branch of posthumanist thought. The  book further investigates Rand's presence and portrayal in  various examples of posthumanist science fiction, including  Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, popular videogame BioShock,  and Zoltan Istvan's novel The Transhumanist Wager.  Considering Rand's influence from a cultural, political,  technological, and economic perspective, this study throws  light on an under-documented but highly significant aspect  of Rand's legacy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/939987},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90853-3.},
}