Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings
From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.
Marc Andreessen wants us to go faster. But what does that matter if nobody’s left in the car?
Effective altruism asked us to do more good by becoming less human.
Why modern man yearns to be replaced, fantasizes of being the one to do it, and how we can stay human instead
Why the end of the human species would be bad, actually
The grand scientific vision and the moral myopia of Linus Pauling
On what the Jewish legend can (and cannot) teach us about bioethics