The biggest debate at the International Summit on Human Genome Editing is where to draw the line between "medical treatment" and "body enhancement." Will transhumanists ruin gene editing for everyone else?

From driverless cars to robotic workers, the future is going to be here before you know it. Many emerging technologies that you hear about today will reach a tipping point by 2025, according to a recent report from The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & Society. The council surveyed more than 800 executives and experts from the technology sector to share their timeline for when technologies would become mainstream.

Transhumanists want to use technology and science to become more than human. Naturally, in this process, certain elements of our humanness will be replaced and likely lost. Many people have conflicting feelings about this. Part of the problem with people’s perceptions of losing their humanness is not their fear of becoming something else, but their inability to empathize with their future selves.

What does it mean to be human? Biology has a simple answer: If your DNA is consistent with Homo sapiens, you are human -- but we all know that humanity is a lot more complex and nuanced than that, especially when you mix in the concept of transhumanism.

In two separate experiments, scientists have formed a network from the brains of monkeys and rats, allowing them to co-operate and learn as a “superbrain”

I remember the moment while watching TV when I realized that if I were riding in the Tour de France, at age 42 I’d be the oldest person in the race.