A Brief Introduction To Transhumanism

Transhumanism is an international movement with the goal of improving the human condition by making widely available technologies to improve and enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. Transhumanist thinkers promote emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations. They speculate that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label "posthuman".

The contemporary meaning of the term transhumanism was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, FM-2030, who taught "new concepts of the Human" at The New School in the 1960s, when he began to identify people who adopt technologies, lifestyles and worldviews transitional to "posthumanity" as "transhuman". This hypothesis would lay the groundwork for the British philosopher Max More to begin advancing the principles of transhumanism as a new futurist philosophy in the 90s establishing the worldwide transhumanist movement.

The transhumanist vision of a transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters. Transhumanism has been characterized as "movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative, and idealistic aspirations of humanity".