Résumé:
This work examines one of the recent topics in the science of computers. It is about the
change that technology has caused to the human race, when the human has become one of the
electrodes that high technology has drawn its algorithmic programming on. In a more literary
analytical process, the novella of “True Names” by Vernor Vinge investigates how
postmodern science fiction portrays the human life after being simulated with computer
technologies to become merely virtual beings that have no kinship with the boundaries the
human body has made. It is a human that has denied its humanistic characteristics to live as
cyborgs or precisely like posthuman beings. The posthuman is a creature that has emerged out
of the integration between humans and machines. It is a being that has acquired great powers
due to its new embodiment; when it can enjoy the virtual consciousness that exceeds that of
normal humans due to its transcendentalist process. The posthuman notion has blossomed in
the epoch of the postmodern science fiction, specifically in the spread of cyberpunk subgenre
that has encompassed a lot of actualities like cyberspace and hypereality. In the shadow of
these new contextualizations, the posthuman has adapted the suitable climate for its
development. It is the manifestation of the humans‟ ever cherished wishes, to enjoy the
eternal virtual consciousness freely.
