From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 19:06:42 MDT
At 08:29 AM 4/16/02 -0700, you wrote:
>According to the article there are two new books coming out of
>interest to the list Francis Fukuyama's "Our Posthuman Future" and
>Gregory Stocks "Redesigning Humans". Fukuyamas's is apparently
>dystopic.
Fukuyama's book has been mentioned here, actually, and there's the debvate
between him and Stock at the Reason site.
Here's the stupid and rabid blurb for his book on the British publisher's
site:
http://www.profilebooks.co.uk/
A book exploring the
consequences of the
biotechnology
revolution. When it
is published the first
human being will
have been cloned.
But will 'it' truly be
human? Is a baby
whose personality
has been chosen
from a gene
supermarket still a
human? If we
choose what we
create what happens
to morality? Is this
the end of human
nature?
`It'. Godawbloodymighty.
Damien Broderick
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