A culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories?

“If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival.” – N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

“We are entering an age of human manufacture… That has never happened in human history. We know have in our hands the technology where we can make and create kinds of humans life, variants of human life never before imagined.” Charles Krauthammer