{"id":3911,"date":"2009-12-03T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:46:43","slug":"the-future-of-being-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3911","title":{"rendered":"The future of being human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s to become of us? Read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2009\/11\/091124-origin-of-species-150-darwin-human-evolution.html\">Future Humans: Four Ways We May, or May Not, Evolve<\/a>&#8221; by James Owens (<em>National Geographic News<\/em>, November 24, 2009). The four possibilities it briefly explores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Humans are done evolving<\/li>\n<li>Humans are still evolving<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transhumanism\">Transhumanism<\/a> awaits (humans improved through science &amp; technology)<\/li>\n<li>Humans migrate to the stars, and then become affected by new, alien environments in ways we can&#8217;t predict<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/posthuman.jpg\" alt=\"Our Posthuman Future cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Interested in learning more? Search library catalogs such as <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/searchBasic\">HALCat<\/a>, Andersen Library&#8217;s catalog, and <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/indexes\/index.html\">article databases<\/a>. You can find books such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lN5-tJ-Y1nsC&amp;dq=Our+posthuman+future&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\"><em>Our posthuman future: Consequences of the biotechnology revolution<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, TP248.2 .F84 2002) and <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=h6uQqddOuPcC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Ending aging: The rejuvenation breakthroughs that could reverse human aging in our lifetime<\/em><\/a> (available from UW-Milwaukee or UW-Oshkosh via the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/selectDatabase\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service). You can find articles such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=a9h&amp;AN=35537376&amp;loginpage=login.asp&amp;site=ehost-live\">Immortality 2.0<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Futurist<\/em>, 2009, vol.43, no.1, pp. 34-41) and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=MImg&amp;_imagekey=B6WMD-4NB99PP-1-D8&amp;_cdi=6932&amp;_user=2614375&amp;_orig=search&amp;_coverDate=08%2F07%2F2007&amp;_sk=997529996&amp;view=c&amp;wchp=dGLbVlW-zSkWA&amp;md5=52e31766edc700b293e2cfc3f31f584a&amp;ie=\/sdarticle.pdf\">On market forces and human evolution<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Journal of Theoretical Biology<\/em>, 2007, vol. 247, no. 3, pp. 397-412).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s to become of us? Read &#8220;Future Humans: Four Ways We May, or May Not, Evolve&#8221; by James Owens (National Geographic News, November 24, 2009). The four possibilities it briefly explores: Humans are done evolving Humans are still evolving Transhumanism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[141,2432,178,519,2433,218,228,2431],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-articles","tag-biotechnology","tag-books","tag-evolution","tag-posthuman","tag-research","tag-science","tag-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3914,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}