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Our grandchildren redesigned : life in the bioengineered society of the near future / Michael Bess.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bess, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biomedical engineering.
- Medical innovations.
- Social change.
- Biomedical Engineering.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biomedical Engineering.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 298 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Life in the bioengineered society of the near future
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807052174
- 0807052175
- OCLC:
- 900594511
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