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Our grandchildren redesigned : life in the bioengineered society of the near future
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- Creator
- Michael Bess
- Other Title
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- Life in the bioengineered society of the near future
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 298 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807052174, 0807052175, 9780807052181
- OCLC
- ocn900594511
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Envisioning the future : between the Jetsons and the Singularity -- Pharmaceuticals -- Bioelectronics -- Genetics and epigenetics -- Wild cards : nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, synthetic biology -- Should we reengineer the human condition? -- Who gets enhanced? -- A fragmenting species? : cultural preferences inscribed into biology -- If I ran the zoo : adventures along the plant-animal-human-machine borderlands -- Mechanization of the self -- Turbocharging moral character -- Shared intimacies : monitoring and transmitting mental information -- Virtual reality and (yawn) this other reality -- Til death do us no longer part: implications of extremely long health spans -- New sounds for the old guitar : sex, food, privacy, the arts, warfare -- Why extreme modifications should be postponed, or, the Singularity can wait -- Humane values in a world of moderate enhancements -- What you and I can do today -- Enhancing humility : some concluding thoughts
Subjects
- Biomedical engineering.
- Medical innovations.
- Social change.
- Biomedical Engineering.
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