A Better Life Through Information Technology? The Techno-Theological Eschatology of Posthuman Speculative Science

Abstract. The depiction of human identity in the pop-science futurology of engineer/inventor Ray Kurzweil, the speculative robotics of Carnegie Mellon roboticist Hans Moravec, and the physics of Tulane University mathematics professor Frank Tipler elevate technology, especially information technolog...

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Main Author: DeLashmutt, Michael W. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- 2006
In: Zygon
Year: 2006, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 267-288
Further subjects:B Ray Kurzweil
B Myth
B Artificial Intelligence
B life extension
B cyborgs
B Norbert Wiener
B techno-theology
B Robotics
B Cybernetics
B Science Fiction
B Hans Moravec
B speculative science
B Frank Tipler
B Technology
B Imagination
B Symbols
B Futurology
B cybernetic totalism
B Posthumanism
B Information Technology
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