Are we willing to accept a human species improved technologically from the radical transformation of their natural conditions? Is the technological singularity that will give rise to an irreversible evolutionary leap from human to post-humankind already being produced? What role do conscience, ethics and democracy play in controlling abuses in this process? The authors, from a firm commitment to the reinforcement, in this century, of a renewed humanism, introduce us in an open and critical way in the concepts of technological singularity and human improvement, as well as in the international agenda of transhumanism. This agenda leads us to the interaction and incorporation in our body and mind of emerging technologies, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, knowledge and information technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, biomimicry or spiritual neuroscience. This book is based...read more