Word: posthumanity
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Kaufman is now playing a robot in Heartbeeps, to be released in the fall. It is an appropriate character for Kaufman: his humor, his presence, his act seem not only post-funny but posthuman. And sometimes it can hurt. Three months ago, as the guest host of Fridays, Kaufman engaged in a seemingly spontaneous shoving match with the show's cast and crew; a week later he was back-unshaven, disheveled, distraught-to confess that his behavior had put his career in jeopardy with "the show-business community," then sobbed and fell silent. Was he serious...
...Since the life of man on earth occupies only the small span of 1,000,000 years out of the accepted time span of 5 billion years for the universe as a whole, it seems obvious to Dr. Calvin that on other planets life may have developed to a "posthuman" state, in which creatures on man's level have been succeeded by some higher organism. Dr. Calvin's conclusion: "Life is not a rather special and unique event on one of the minor planets around an ordinary sun at the edge of one of the minor galaxies...