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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

36. In the Afterglow of the Big Bang: Science, Science Fiction, and Transhumanism

Authors : Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens

Published in: The Transhumanism Handbook

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In Stanley Kubrick’s and Arthur C. Clarke’s classic science-fiction movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, an iconic “dissolve” transforms a hominid’s thrown club into an orbiting weapons platform. The startling juxtaposition of images succinctly illustrates that transhumanism is today’s name for a process humans have employed since the species began: Using our intellect to improve and augment our inherent capabilities in order to prolong our survival.

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Footnotes
1
Hugo Guernsback first used the term “scientifiction” in 1915, which popularly became shortened to “science fiction” in the 1930s.
 
2
Story by André Bormanis & J&G Reeves-Stevens, Teleplay by Manny Coto & J&G Reeves-Stevens.
 
3
Sagan recorded the message in 1995, for inclusion on disks carried by the two landers that were part of Russia’s Mars ‘96 probe. Though that mission didn’t succeed, the message endures.
 
4
As another example of the back-and-forth dance of science and science fiction, Blish is also credited with coining the now commonly used term, “gas giant,” to describe planets like Jupiter and Saturn.
 
Metadata
Title
In the Afterglow of the Big Bang: Science, Science Fiction, and Transhumanism
Authors
Judith Reeves-Stevens
Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Copyright Year
2019
Book
The Transhumanism Handbook

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-16919-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-16920-6

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16920-6_36

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