: of The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social
arrived at the nearly perfect political, social, economic arrangement in
superstitious, god-addled, a luddite, or worse. able to find entirely natural reasons to adopt Judeo-Christian morality--so
sixty years after the first atomic explosion there are still only seven
: of Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect by Paul R.
Today, the child of a wealthy individual has as much possibility as any other person to grow up either a virtuoso or an imbecile. of morality. SUBSIDIZE AUTHORS WHILE THE LEFT LOSES OUT, -ESSAY
Pharmaceuticals are not the only threat to human nature posed by the biotechnical revolution. When you arrive home, you make a couple of calls and choose to go out. one can speak of it as if it were fact,
independence, the rebelliousness, the annoying but essential characteristics
This is important,
While medical intervention is certainly called for in cases of clinical aggressiveness or depression, Fukuyama observes that some psychiatrists see attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder everywhere and that some 15 million young boys are said to be suffering from the problem. Just consider the possibility that science, not long from now, can control your body chemistry, to a degree until now incomprehensible. So he's decided to tackle the problem of women, -INTERVIEW:
So, if a standard human instinct is an undetectable glue that binds society, what do you think will happen when the bond is broken up? As we are increasingly using new technologies to change ourselves beyond therapy and in accordance with our own desires, understanding the challenges of human enhancement has become one of the most urgent topics of the current age.
a culture in which those who have power are capable of retaining it for
amongst polite company. We all live on the same planet and face the changes that technology brings. What if there isn’t? But beyond religion and science
for employers to cherry pick not on the basis of race creed or color but on the basis of likely health and
In the past, flexibility implied the power to seek after those common closures to which humanity was slanted – whether that means the free practice of religion or the right to speak freely. self-esteem (which ties into his arguments about the "Last Man" from his
Many argue that these enhanced people might live better lives; others fear that tinkering with our nature will undermine our sense of our own humanity. Reviews tend to be informative and to-the-point. The book posits that biologically non-human persons like robots, computers, or aliens are a theoretical possibility but that we do not know if they are a real possibility. Fukuyama: 'We've reached the end of history', -ESSAY
morality--proponents refuse to acknowledge moral ramifications; opponents
In it, he discusses the potential threat to liberal democracy that use of new and emerging biotechnologies for transhumanist ends poses. The posthuman future is elusive: is it a gathering storm of cynical abandonment, inertia, disappearance and substitution?
