Francis Fukuyama’s Our Posthuman Future

Francis Fukuyama’s ‘Our Posthuman Future’ provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of future technologies on human society and explores the cognitive challenges that these technologies may lead to in artificial intelligence and human identity. The book also provides a rich framework for dystopian themes.

• Various technological projects and artificial intelligence can enhance human body functions to treat diseases, and even insert mechanical parts, but this change will gradually erase the original attributes of ‘human’.

In Neo-Human, genetic modification technology enables the new humans to have adaptability far beyond that of humans. Although some neo-humans retain human characteristics, their way of thinking and acting can no longer be considered human.

It makes one ponder: when humans grow up away from the earth, can they still be considered ‘Human’?

• Technology has uncontrollable properties and is difficult to fully control, even when it is considered technologically mature. If technology develops further, human society may be dominated by modified life forms or artificial intelligence.

In Neo-Human, the last planet can be seen as a microcosm of the post-human society. Because the spaceship crash-landed on Earth, the neo-humans have evolved sufficiently to take the top of the food chain and dominate the planet in place of humans.