Friday, May 20, 2005

Better, faster, stronger?


Better Humans? The politics of human enhancement
In partnership with The Wellcome Trust, Demos is setting out to stimulate a public debate about the implications of human enhancement technologies.
(Demos)

    The aim of this project is to initiate a public debate about issues of human enhancement in the UK. We’ll be commissioning a series of essays from different perspectives about the implications of human enhancement to be published as a Demos collection in January 2006.

    We’ll also be listening to public concerns and attitudes towards enhancement at a series of events during the summer of 2005. More here

Backgrounder
You say you want an evolution
Congress is thinking about thinking
Converging ideologies against human performance

Related News
Inventing Our Evolution (Washington Post, registration required)
Human evolution at the crossroads (MSNBC)
Enhancing the Warriors (Fortune)
The Techno Sapiens Are Coming (Christianity Today, Jan. 2004)
Future Perfect? (The Ecologist, May 2003)

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