From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 20:39:23 MDT
Speaking of 'remastered races' and cloning, has any SF
author yet portrayed the poor clones as hunted fugitives?
There are so many parallels with earlier evil persecutions,
you know.
Suppose I go to China or some other advanced nation in
a couple of years, get a little Lee, raise him in some
free country, e.g., on board my own yacht since I can't
name any free countries, and then when he's five or so,
claim my citizenship and attempt to return to the U.S.
with him. What will the Authorities do with me, or to
him?
Lee Corbin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:07 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: MEDIA: The Remastered Race
>
>
> 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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