Transhumanism can be regarded as a sociotechnical imaginary born out of a protest against human fundamental life conditions. It is an attempt to radically reimagine the future of our species. Pilsch has even gone so far as to say that transhumanism “is the only discourse today actively imagining a radical future as radically alien as communism’s idea of a classless society was in the late nineteenth century.” Even if one does not agree with him, the transhumanist imaginary has given and continues to give impetus to philosophy as well as to the development of medicine and medical technology. With its promotion of things that are at the cusp of being possible, and suggestions of profound change, transhumanism—and its history—offers insight into humans coming to terms with a pre-human past and a possible posthuman future.