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Foreword by Stephen K. Bannon -- Preface. (Part one: Selling the "inevitable"): Into the electric antfarm -- Gathering nano swarms -- Mechanical bodies, artificial brains -- Cultural eugenics and digital Darwinism. (Part two: The pentagram of power): A global pandemic as initiation rite -- The devil's dollhouse -- Homo deus: a man of wealth and taste -- In praise of mad prophets. (Part three: A reflected inversion): Images of Jesus: a confession -- Virtual gnosis -- Countdown to gigadeath -- Singularity and its discontents -- Axial powers. Appendix: My 55-point plan to stay human -- Notes -- Index
The author defines transhumanism as a merger of humankind with the machine. An illustration of this is the fact that artificial intelligence makes important decisions for us every day. The book confronts the paradox of what the author calls "good people constructing a digital abomination." Among the topics the book covers are the emergence of Scientism, government-mandated mRNA vaccines, and the visions of cyborg billionaires like Elon Musk