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== Transhumanist Elements ==

The book features many transhumanist and futurist elements including:

* The character Edmond Kirsch shares some of his biography and philosophy with the real-world futurist [[Ray Kurzweil | Raymond Kurzweil]] (their names happen to be similar too)
* One of the book's key characters is an [[AI]]
* References to quantum and super-computers
* [[Self driving cars]]
* References to [[longevity]], and [[telomere lengthening]] (see Quotes below).
* [[Kevin Kelly]]'s concept of [https://www.edge.org/conversation/kevin_kelly-the-technium-and-the-7th-kingdom-of-life "The Technium - The Seventh Kingdom of Life"]
* Obligate Endosymbiosis (the fusion of man and machine).
* Embedded computer chips.
* [[Nanotechnology]]
* [[Prosthetics]]
* [[CRISPR]]
* Post-scarcity
* An "assassination market" supposedly accessible via the Darknet
* An AI that interprets its instructions in unexpected ways