Transhumanism: The New Master Race? (tags)
It seems that the molecular manufacturing revolution will be the last one for the human race. This is because we are made of atoms, and since we will have the ability to remake ourselves, we will. So we must ask the difficult question of what it means to be human. The concept of a Transhuman has been coined to describe what comes after Homo Sapiens, but what does that really mean for us, the ordinary humans? Are we individually transformed, or just sloughed off like old skin cells?