TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE AND TRANSHUMANISM. THE PERSPECTIVE OF A PERMISSIVE FUTURE

• Published in: International Journal of Communication Research Vol. 5; no. 4; p. 329
• Main Author: Cocalia (Craciun, M A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Iasi "Apollonia" University of Iasi, The Communication Sciences Faculty 01.10.2015
• Subjects: Genetic engineering; Hygiene; Intervention; Men; Mens health; Religion; Religious orthodoxy; Spirituality
• ISSN: 2246-9265

The present article brings into light a problem of technological culture and transhumanism which is often met today and approached consequently, problem defined from many perspectives and revealed through the subjective permissive future. Man, as a human being, is permanent. Submitted to some profound and inevitable changes, the human being has defined his own limits and integrated technological terms and conditions. We wonder whether the technical man as he was defined in the last century, tends to adhere and to integrate into the mechanisms/ cars, giving up gradually but certain, to his own freedom only for an additional comfort. It is a question to which, although this work, we will try to provide some pertinent answer. The nowadays technology integrates the new technical tools and marks a significant growth of the creative abilities of informational machines and in the same time of mankind. Scientific and technical revolution lead to the building of a solid fundament in the development that derive in concepts as social justice and quality of the equality of chances. In the same time, for a coherent approach of the proposed issue, it has been imposed the analysis of convergent technologies as life biotechnology, info technology, nanotechnology and cognotechnology. These technologies of the future refer to the enhancing of the human condition which has become a new global perspective among the reinterpretation of science. The common impact refers to a new economical development which implies utility, efficiency and financial prosperity. Thus, the proposed theme refers to a personal manner in which the modern technologies specific to the technical man which generate a real impact not only on the global economy and security but also on the main feature of the human, the real one with advantages and disadvantages