Visions of Technological Transcendence: Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future

James A. Herrick Rhetoric of Science and Technology Edited by Alan Gross Information and Pricing978-1-60235-875-1 (paperback, $32); 978-1-60235-876-8 (hardcover, $65) 978-1-60235-877-5 (PDF, $19.99) © 2017 by Parlor Press. 240 pages with notes, bibliography, and index. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Reviews Sid Dobrin in Composition Forum (2018) John McLellan in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 62, no. 1, March 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2019.2895227 Description The human enhancement movement—with Transhumanism as its best-known and most influential manifestation—promotes dramatic mental and physical augmentations to be realized by the radical and coordinated appropriation of biotechnology and computer science. Goals of Transhumanism include immortality, the merger of humans and machines, human-level artificial intelligence, and space colonization. The discourse of human enhancement is marked by the imminen