HOD, HUMANS ON DEMAND

The machines have invaded our daily lives. We do not realize how much they make us dependent on them, shaping up the way we see the world, or even our thoughts. While the political difficulty in delivering a clear vision of the future on a planet in economic and moral crisis, scientists, philosophers and activists antitechnologies launch the alert against the accelerated pace of techno-scientific progress in this new century. Transhumanism, a current of thought Anglo-Saxon prosperous today because among researchers in robotics, nanotechnology and neuroscience, and in their financial backers in the lobby computer, pharmaceutical and military. They work to raise a new man, a “post-human”, improved, grown, manufactured, perfectly adapted to the requirements of the economic model Almighty, the risk of creating a world without humans, artificial and dehumanized. Survey genesis in this world at the crossroads of techno, philosophy and politics, including issues affect us all, here and now.