Is Deus Ex Human Revolution Truly Transhuman?

Is Deus Ex Human Revolution Truly Transhuman?

KSD writes: Deus Ex: Human Revolution launched August, 2011. Just a month earlier, Kyle Munkittrick, program director at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies wrote an article for Discover magazine called “Seven Conditions for Attaining Transhumanism.”

Munkittrick outlined what he envisioned as the essential changes in culture, ideology and human self-image that would signal the existence of a transhuman society, a society where people and technology—man and machine—had become so closely connected that the traditional idea of what constituted a person would evolve. “As a movement philosophy, transhumanism and its proponents argue for a future of ageless bodies, transcendent experiences, and extraordinary minds,” Munkittrick wrote. “Transhumanism isn’t just about cybernetics and robot bodies. Social and political progress must accompany the technological and biological advances for transhumanism to become a reality.”

Munkittrick's essay is not an exhaustive prediction for how transhumanisn will come to pass, nor is Deus Ex: Human Revolution wholly reflective of a probable transhuman society. But given the proximity of the article's publication to the release of the game, I can't but consider to what extent Human Revolution lives up to Munkittrick's seven conditions.

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