At the Dawn of a Great Transition
The Question of Radical Enhancement
Radical enhancement would employ technology to extend human capacities far beyond anything yet seen or experienced. Imagine, for example, easily outrunning any Olympic athlete while being dramatically smarter than Albert Einstein. Or imagine living for hundreds or thousands of years, making today's super-centenarians seem like mayfl ies. Soon - perhaps some time this century - we may have the technology for this. But if we had it, should we use it? Radical enhancement might seem like a gift , but could it become, as its critics warn, a poisoned chalice for individuals and a curse for human societies? In this fascinating book, Russell Blackfo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-7965-4189-6
- EAN: 9783796541896
- Produktnummer: 33984664
- Verlag: schwabe
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Masse: H15.7 cm x B22.5 cm
- Reihenbandnummer: 03
Über den Autor
Russell Blackford is Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His many books include Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies (2014) and, most recently, The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism (2019). In 2014 he was inducted into the International Academy of Humanism.
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