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  1. See www.humanityplus.org for the Humanity+organization, formerly the World Transhumanist Association.

  2. See, for example, Wolfe (2009).

  3. See Hayles (2009) for a discussion of the implications of RFID.

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Hayles, N. After shocks: Posthuman ambivalence. Postmedieval 1, 262–271 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2010.28

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