We have embraced technology wholeheartedly. Replacing amputated or non-functioning parts of a human body with sleek electronic prosthetics are cutting edge medical procedures. Banking and other financial transactions are authenticated by bio-metric verification. Crypto-currency is already making waves and may prove to be the money of tomorrow. Apps in our mobile phones are an extension of our personalities and day-to-day activities. Crowd-sourced online forums and blogs such as reddit, boing-boing, quora, 4chan, facebook, twitter etc. helps us to shape our opinions. Inadvertently, wikipedia has become an extension of our memory. Second-Life is currently the largest online interaction of virtual worlds and virtual avatar.

With better technology there is a continued lure in us to incorporate electronics embedded into our biological systems to monitor and enrich our metabolic processes, extend our longevity and add to more mind power. The improvement of our biological processes by the use of technology is termed transhumanism. This seamless integration of artificial and biological, the real and the virtual fuels the route to Technological Singularity. Therefore, becoming a robot may not sound so cheesy - the world post the Technological Singularity suggests that human beings, if they continue to live will meld with technology and become indistinguishable from each other.

It is believed that newer inventions in the fields of cryonics, virtual reality, gene therapy, space colonies, cybernetics, self-replicating robots, terra farming, mind uploading etc. will add impetus to transhumanism. Moderate enhancement, yet maintaining the human form and values is the domain of transhumanism. Use of technology where it is difficult to unambiguously identify human form and values is the domain of posthumanism. By current standards, posthumans will interpret the world with more than five senses, and have additional cognitive modules at their disposal.