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Are we officially post-human?

Mario Gabriele
May 05, 2020
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Editor's Letter: The coronavirus is hastening the post-human era

In the mid-1970s, Professor Fereidoun M. Esfandiary decided to change his name. From then on he would be legally called "FM-2030."

"Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago...The name 2030 reflects my conviction t…

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