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The modern technologies change our bodies as it never happened before in the mankind‘s story: can we predict the future of the human race, after this revolutionary becoming? Two different specialists (Moriggi is a philosopher, Nicoletti is a science journalist) interact about this question that need a new glance and an upgrade.

Throughout arts, science, ethics, sacred and unholy, current affairs and philosophy the authors lead the reader to a new understanding of the distinction between what is natural and what is artificial. And they reveal us that what is considered post-human will never exist; technology is just a priviliged perspective to understand our evolution.

Introduction; Preservation of the Saints; the unknown use of the silicone; Digital relics: Benedictus XVI, Oscar Pistorius and Andy Warhol; Dangerous connections; the evolution of Human-Robot relationships; Impossible bodies: the Barbie Affair, change our bodies with the lifting, sexy dolls; the place of our souls.

Stefano Moriggi, PhD, is a historian and a philosopher of science and technology. He has been a teacher at the Universities of Milan, Brescia, Parma, São Paulo. He is a scientific consultant for Piccolo Teatro, Milan, and collaborates with various Italian newspapers. Among his non-scholarly books, Le tre bocche di Cerbero (Bompiani, 2004). Gianluca Nicoletti is a science journalist. He writes for the Italian newspaper La Stampa and for Wired. In the last 15 years he has been focused his attention on understanding the evolution of the close interaction between technology and modern society.