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DESIGNER EVOLUTION
A TRANSHUMANIST MANIFESTO
By Simon Young

(New York : Prometheus Books, 2006)

“A truly down-to-earth, energy-filled, heartfelt description of the world we should be seeking through technology, if we stop being afraid.” 

Dr. Aubrey de Grey,
Biogerontologist,
Cambridge University

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"A breath of fresh air for a world that badly needs an optimistic vision of its future”

“A rare and uplifting vision of the biological future we can and should create for ourselves.”

“An engaging antidote to the doom and gloom of the Bio-Luddites.”

Dr. Gregory Fahy,
Chief Scientific Officer,
Vice President
21st Century Medicine

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"Simon Young captures the guiding spirit of transhumanism: that the human body can be improved, made more durable, and bestowed greater capacity for accomplishment and wonder than most have heretofore dreamed possible – all without losing, indeed while enhancing, the essence of our humanity."

Professor Robert A. Freitas Jr.,
Author, Nanomedicine

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"A clarion call,
and not an unloud trumpet"

Professor Robert Ettinger,
Author, Prospect of Immortality,
Man into Superman

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