Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human is a book published in 2005 by Joel Garreau. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Joel Garreau (born 1948) is a journalist and author. ...

The book is about the march toward a potentially post-human or transhuman future where technology will allow humans to shape their bodies and minds, or possibly destroy life on earth, or even the universe. Posthuman Future by Michael Gibbs A posthuman or post-human is a hypothetical future being whose capabilities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer human by current standards. ... Transhuman is a term that refers to an intermediary form between the human and the posthuman. ...

It focuses on three main scenarios: The Heaven, Hell, and Prevail scenarios. Three divergent views of what could or should happen in just the few decades following the publication of the book. The Grin Technologies are the cutting edge of the technology curve so to speak. ...

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more information, excerpts, and reviews are available at Joel's website for the book
many good editorial reviews are available at the amazon.com page

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