Technological Singularity: A Journey toward the Alienation of Humanity

At the crossroads of science, science fiction has given us a thousand visions of what humans might become. Are we truly on the brink of altering our genetic heritage and transforming our human species, especially with the pushing of scientific boundaries beyond the life sciences and human studies, from discovery and exploration of thought processes to the capability of correcting nature's flaws or replacing them entirely? This signifies a desire to invent a humanity that fits our technological age and praises the Nietzschean Übermensch, directed towards controlling the code of life through the advocacy of smart technology usage, or what is known as artificial intelligence. This opens up possibilities for intervening in the human genome and reprogramming it as a project for manufacturing human genes. But does this lead to the dismantling of humanity, or does it pertain to the emergence of a new form of humanity? Especially after the technological revolution that extends its knowledge and technical capabilities alongside genomics, heralding a post-human result, as a sign for a being beyond human, by reshaping it as is done with machines. This reductionist treatment is an acknowledgment of a new humanity, making individual life the normative horizon for the contemporary imagination, through the fusion of human with technology that surpasses the natural limits created by our biological heritage, announcing a transitional phase lying between our biological legacy and our superhuman future. Is this practical optimism indicative of perpetual progress, or a path to post-humanity?