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Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Contents -- Posthuman Horizons and Realities: Introduction -- Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg -- The limits of knowledge and key conflicts -- The articles in this volume -- Exit? -- References -- Notes on contributors -- part I -- Tech nological scenarios -- 1 Cyborging the Posthuman: Participatory Evolution -- Chris Hables Gray -- Homo sapiens cyborg -- Shockwave Riders -- Cyborg Citizenship -- References -- Acknowledgements -- 2 How Close Are We to Being Able to Achieve the Transhumanist Vision? -- Maxwell J. Mehlman -- References -- 3 Genetics - It Just Got Personal -- Lone Frank -- Genes of behavior back in fashion -- Embracing complexity -- From homogeneity to diversity -- Toward a culture of biology -- References -- 4 The Medicine of the Future - Live Long and Prosper? -- Søren Holm -- What can we learn from past predictions? -- Predicting the future of medicine - an attempt -- Which tech nologies? -- What conditions? -- What functions will we enhance and how? -- How fast will the developments be and how far will they extend? -- Social inequality and 'trickle down' effects -- References -- part II -- Ethical dilemmas -- 5 Post-What? (And Why Does It Matter?) -- Sarah Chan and Joh n Harris -- We are all post-simians - but we did not set out to be! -- Human to posthuman: crossing the species boundary -- Enhancement and (post)-human evolution -- What's so special about being human? -- Creating posthumans -- Posthuman values, enhancement and identity -- Are posthuman values 'ours'? Who are 'we' anyway? -- Posthuman children -- Our moral species -- References -- 6 Treating Symptoms Rather Than Causes? On "Enhancement" and Social Oppression -- Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen -- A huge, albeit unproblematic, assumption -- Two kinds of improvement.