TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PRELUDE PESSIMISTS FROM YEARS PAST -- CHAPTER 1 THE COMING CONVERGENCE -- CHAPTER 2 NEURAL NETS AND ARTIFICIAL BRAINS -- CHAPTER 3 THE CHALLENGE OF REAL AI1 -- CHAPTER 4 NANOTECHNOLOGY GETS REAL -- CHAPTER 5 UPLOADING: LIBERATING MINDS FROM BRAINS -- CHAPTER 6 THE CYBORGIZATION OF HUMANITY -- CHAPTER 7 THE NEW GENETICS -- CHAPTER 8 THE QUEST FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY -- CHAPTER 9 CRYONICS COMES OF AGE -- CHAPTER 10 IN SEARCH OF THE UNIVERSAL EQUATION -- CHAPTER 11 CURING POVERTY WITH COMPUTING? -- CHAPTER 12 EXTROPIAN ELITISM AND HUMANIST POSTHUMANISM -- CHAPTER 13 SONG FROM THE DIGITAL FOREST -- CHAPTER 14 MINDPLEXES -- CHAPTER 15 CREATING A POSITIVE TRANSCENSION -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.