Редактирование: Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition

<b><i>Great Mambo Chicken & The Transhuman Condition</i></b> is a 1990 non-fiction book by [[Ed Regis]], narrating the interconnected origins of concepts such as [[space colonization]], [[cryonics]], [[nanotechnology]], and [[mind uploading]].

== Contents ==

=== Truax ===

=== Home on Lagrange ===

=== Heads Will Roll ===

Details early cryonics efforts, including organizations such as the [[Alcor Life Extension Foundation]], [[Trans Time]], and the [[Cryonics Society of New York]] and the [[Cryonics patients|individual suspensions]] of [[Dora Kent]] (and surrounding legal controversy) and [[James Bedford]].  Rationale and concerns are contrasted from scientific experiments (with animals as well as cell cultures, tissues, and organs), and science fiction stories <i>The Door into Summer</i> by [[Robert Heinlein]], <i>Why Call Them Back from Heaven?</i> by [[Clifford Simak]], and <i>The Penultimate Trump</i> by [[Robert Ettinger]].

Motivations regarding cryonics as a personal choice are explored in the May 08, 1988 deaths of both Heinlein (who chose cremation) and [[Robert George Binkowski]] (suspended as Alcor A-1108)<ref><i>Cryonics</i>, June 1988 [http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/casereport8806.html Long-time Alcor Member Enters Biostasis].</ref>

=== Omnipotence, Plentitude & Co. ===

Continues from cryonics to the prospect of revival via [[nanomedicine]] and general [[nanotechnology]], including [[Eric Drexler]]'s early conceptualization and [[gray goo]] concerns.

=== Postbiological Man ===

=== The Artificial Life 4-H Show ===

=== Hints for the Better Operation of the Universe ===

=== Death of the Impossible ===

=== <i>Laissez le Bon Temps Rouler</i> ===

== Further Reading ==

* [[Extropy Magazines]] #7 (Spring, 1991)

== External Links ==

* {{wikipedia|Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition}}

== References ==

[[Category:Books]]