section_path: Future/Transhumanism
section_name: Transhumanism
paragraph_text: Transhumanism
  
  Robot designer Hans Moravec, cyberneticist Kevin Warwick, and inventor Ray Kurzweil have predicted that humans and machines will merge in the future into cyborgs that are more capable and powerful than either. This idea, called transhumanism, has roots in Aldous Huxley and Robert Ettinger.
  
  Edward Fredkin argues that "artificial intelligence is the next stage in evolution", an idea first proposed by Samuel Butler 's " Darwin among the Machines " as far back as 1863, and expanded upon by George Dyson in his 1998 book Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence.