Transhumanism: are we on the brink of creating new human species? | TechNyou: "2011 has brought the futurists out from hiding. Humans have that wonderful capacity to think ahead and speculate and imagine about what could be. In the not-so-distant future, we envision the rise of the machines, victory over disease, ageing and injury, revolutionary transport and energy generation…and so on.
One of the more interesting and ethically challenging futuristic concepts is human enhancement where we use our advanced knowledge and technologies to tweak the human species to make it “better”. A recent paper in the last Journal of Evolution and Technology is one of a number of commentaries on this topic. Andrew Maynard also touches on this in a recent talk about risk science in the 21st Century. He outlines 5 pressure point technologies that he predicts will radically change society in the next few decades, two of these relate to human enhancement: machine-human interface and cognitive enhancers...."
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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