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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

Author	Francis Fukuyama
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	2002
Pages	272
ISBN	0-374-23643-7

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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution is a 2002 book by Francis Fukuyama. In it, he discusses the potential threat to liberal democracy that use of new and emerging biotechnologies for transhumanist ends poses.^[1]^[2]

^ Kazin, Michael (Winter 2004). "Review of Our Posthuman Future". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 47 (1): 151–152. doi:10.1353/pbm.2004.0012. S2CID 72462490.
^ "Review of Our Posthuman Future". The Guardian. 31 May 2002.