Humans 2.0

Will technology usher in a new future or have we gone too far? Unprecedented developments in bioengineering, biotechnology, and biomedicine breakthroughs that could improve the lives of people with debilitating diseases and injuries can also serve as stepping-stones to technologies that can enhance human beings and alter human nature, raising fears about how biotechnologies could be misused. Should we discourage advances in biotechnology and bioengineering that can be used for human enhancement? Or should we take control of our own "evolution" and usher in a posthuman age? Is there another option? In Humans 2.0, authors Fazale "Fuz" Rana and Kenneth Richard Samples open a window to the new world of human enhancement technologies and transhumanism their promises, potential, and pitfalls.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Introduction: In Search of Salvation
4. Part 1: The Science of Human Enhancement | Chapter 1: Gene Editing and the Prospects for Human Enhancement
5. Chapter 1 Continued
6. Chapter 2: Neuroprosthetics, Brain-Computer Interfaces, and the Prospect of a Cybernetics Future
7. Chapter 2 Continued
8. Chapter 3: Anti-Aging Technology
9. Part 2: The Ethics of Human Enhancement | Chapter 4: Ethical Challenges of Human Enhancement Technology
10. Chapter 5: Secular Bioethics and Their Limitations
11. Chapter 6: The Case for the Image of God
12. Chapter 7: The Image of God: Foundation of Christian Bioethics
13. Part 3: Transhumanism and Christianity | Chapter 8: What Is Transhumanism?
14. Chapter 9: The Problem with Progress
15. Chapter 10: Transhumanism and the Gospel
16. Chapter 11: Resurrection: The Ultimate Transformation
17. Special Focus: Artificial Intelligence and the Posthuman World
18. Special Focus: Artificial Wombs and the Posthuman World
19. Appendix: A Primer on Molecular Biology
20. Closing Credits