The Cases For and Against Enhancing People
A recent issue of The New Atlantis features several essays on transhumanism which may be of interest to readers of this...
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Tea Partying Transhumanists?
The New York Times published last month an intriguing exploration by New School professor J. M. Bernstein of the...
The Other Paradox of Choice
Should we regulate? In a recent post here on Futurisms responding to a CNN interview about the pending...
The Life of the Clone (and the Narcissism of the Cloner)
Bryan Caplan is an economics professor at George Mason University and a contributor to a group blog about economics. He...
Our Doppelgängered Future?
David Foster Wallace → Russell Crowe? The gentle Facebooking reader will likely have noticed the news-feed trend...
Arma virumque cano
Beneath Adam’s post “On Lizardman and Liberalism,” commenter Will throws down the gauntlet: “[F]ind one...
The Myth of Libertarian Enhancement, Cont’d
Our recent post about libertarian enhancement has received some pushback. For example, commenter Kurt9 says he believes...
The Myth of Libertarian Enhancement
In the previous post here on Futurisms, my co-blogger Charles T. Rubin argues that one can only have a libertarian...
Moral relativism and the future of technology
There are aspects of the arguments of advocates of human re-engineering that, for what it’s worth, I agree with. One...