Talk:Transhumanism in fiction

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Contents 1 Split Video game part from 'other media' 2 Half Life 2 3 2001: A Space Odyssey 4 The Bicentennial Man 5 The Culture - Iain M. Banks 6 Other Media 7 This article is going in the wrong direction

[edit] Split Video game part from 'other media'

I think that since video games takes up a large portion of 'other media', it should be split. Video games is more than large enough to stand on its own. Ran4 (talk) 18:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Half Life 2

I edited this out:

In the video game Half-Life 2, the player's primary enemies are transhumans created by an alien race known as the Combine. The human antagonist and puppet ruler of Earth, Dr. Breen, argues that the transhuman state is necessary and can only be achieved with outside (alien) help.

I've played through the game at least 5 times and not once have I seen or heard a single word about transhumanism. HL2 was about an alien race invading our dimension and stripping our world of it's resources, basically, total domination. There was not a single shred of evidence that the Combine was trying to help the humans. They were systematicaly wiping them out, or transforming them into mindless slaves for their own purpose, using Dr. Breen as a go between. -Moocats 17:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Dr. Breen tried to convince people he was a helper - he was 'elevating' humankind, and the combine troopers were actually called the 'Transhuman arm of the Combine Overwatch'. Look again. --Joffeloff 23:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2001: A Space Odyssey

Maybe 2001 should be added to this article? --Jfbolus 07:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Bicentennial Man

What about a discussion on the idea of robot transforming into a human? --G1076 17:28, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Culture - Iain M. Banks

The Culture novels take place between (approx) 1300 AD and 2100 AD - so it can't be described as "the future". --(Unsigned)

[edit] Other Media

In the next few days I'm going to comb through this article pretty heavily; adding in new material, tidying up some paragraphs, and just doing a bit of sprucing up. I'll be in here with more info, but I'm debating adding a section for Comics since I think that's significant enough a body of work to get it's own. Who knows. --Human.v2.0 23:33, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article is going in the wrong direction

Both the novel section and TV section are starting to read like WP:Embedded lists, which ultimately will cause problems by violating WP:STYLE. I suggest you try to summarize the sections, compare and contrast how Transhumanism is portrayed differently between different media formats. Talk about a limited number of examples in each section (3 or 4) and create a Category, or WP:List so that the other examples have a place to go, and aren't deleted whole-cloth later.--Sparkygravity (talk) 16:47, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Despite all the work I've done on the Transhumanism, I've decided not work on the Transhumanism in fiction article. However, I agree with Sparkygravity. --Loremaster (talk) 17:34, 23 February 2008 (UTC)