>Risks of Prohibition

Ramez Naam

11 Mar, 2005

>Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok writes: I understand that some people don’t want to expand the human lifespan beyond its“natural” limits but I object to their preventing others from doing so justbecause they don’t like the sight of sprightly senior citizens. Not only should…

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>More Transhumanism in the Blogosphere

Ramez Naam

11 Mar, 2005

>FuturePundit joins the conversation on transhumanism and identity. A lot of this conversation hinges on how possible and likely it is that parents make radical personality changes to their offspring. I think it’s important to keep three things in mind when thinking about that: 1…

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>Transhumanism, Parenting, and Identity

Ramez Naam

10 Mar, 2005

>Marginal Revolution has had a very interesting conversation about transhumanism, parenting, and identity. Tyler Cowen asks if parents would make a change to their unborn children to make them 1% happier if it meant that those kids would be radically different from their parents. I…

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>Chris Mooney

Ramez Naam

9 Mar, 2005

>Chris Mooney encouraged his readers to check out More Than Human yesterday. If you haven’t read Chris’s blog, I highly recommend it. It’s a constant stream of commentary on the intersections of science, politics, and public policy. Popular topics are stem cells, environmental policy, and…

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>NuSapiens Review

Ramez Naam

9 Mar, 2005

>NuSapiens has an excellent review of the book up. It’s excellent both because it’s very complimentary 🙂 and because of the depth and breadth of the coverage. It does a rather good job of summarizing the key arguments of the book.

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>New Reviews

Ramez Naam

8 Mar, 2005

>Two new reviews have posted in the last 24 hours! Yesterday, Rand Simberg posted this review over at Transterrestrial Musings. And today I see that the LA Times has posted their own positive review of the book. I’ve added the LA Times review to the…

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>Upcoming Event: Tools for the Development of Humanity

Ramez Naam

2 Mar, 2005

>Posted to the events page. I expect this to be a good event. Among others, David Brin and Gary Hart will be speaking. Here’s the official announcement: Attend The Arlington Institute’s 3rd Annual ConferenceTools for the Development of HumanityApril 25-26, 2005 in Washington, DC http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/TAICON2005…

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