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Posthuman, A Lousy Marketing Concept

by: Christine Peterson, Jason Ahlquist, Karl Schroeder, Ron Hale-Evans

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Topics: Penguicon, Christine Peterson, Jason Ahlquist, Karl Schroeder, Ron Hale-Evans, posthuman

At Penguicon 5.0 in 2007, Christine Peterson, Jason Ahlquist, Karl Schroeder, and Ron Hale-Evans discuss the term 'posthuman'. The term âposthumanâ seems to indicate a lack of humans. This is not what is meant, but itâs really bad marketing, and scares people. Even transhumanism is not a very friendly term. Names are important; perhaps it needs a new name the same way Free Software came to be known as Open Source Software?