Our grandchildren redesigned
Subtitle: life in the bioengineered society of the near future
By: Michael Bess
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780807052174; 9780807052181
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Bioengineering; Trends; Biomedical Enhancement; Social Change
Other titles: Life in the bioengineered society of the near future
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Envisioning the future : between the Jetsons and the Singularity; title: Pharmaceuticals; title: Bioelectronics; title: Genetics and epigenetics; title: Wild cards : nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, synthetic biology; title: Should we re-engineer the human condition?; title: Who gets enhanced?; title: A fragmenting species? : cultural preferences inscribed into biology; title: If I ran the zoo. adventures along the plant/animal/human/machine borderlands; title: Mechanization of the self; title: Turbocharging moral character; title: Shared intimacies: monitoring and transmitting mental contents; title: Virtual reality and (yawn) this other reality; title: Til death do us no longer part. Implications of extremely long healthspans; title: New sounds for the old guitar : sex, food, privacy, the arts, warfare; title: Why extreme modifications should be postponed, or, the Singularity can wait; title: Humane values in a world of moderate enhancements; title: What you and I can do today; title: Enhancing humility : some concluding thoughts.