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Transhumanism seems to be the example of the attempt to go beyond the limits of existing technology to enable mankind to develop in infinity. Technological development today creates possibilities that are a great opportunity for a human being, but it also carries with it the danger of so much interference in human nature that we have to ask again who is a human being not to lose his personal dignity. We are going to investigate whether it is possible to connect human being with technologies to redefine our definition of a person. There are many concerns behind transhumanism including technological singularity, atrifictial intelligence etc. Despite of all these concerns we have to develop to hit so called hard ceiling of the social developement to avoid collapse. Asigning points to the social developement we can compute when we will acheive another hard ceiling. It seems to be assocated with technological progress described by Moore's Law. Ray Kurzweil indicated that by 2045 we are going to acheive the singularity and then social development will continue towards post-human society in which people will live in peace without getting old and with no death. But probably to be able to live in such society the latest technolgies should be shared with all people in the world not to divide people into "better" and "worse". History teaches us that if a cuntry has technological advantage over the other ones this power is rather used to be able to impose on the other countries its own rules. Taking control over the world by using the latest technologies is moral issue. Division between people with such thechnologies implemented and people without access to them is another moral question. And finally, is it moral to limit the number of people to a small group living forever?
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