>Interview with Me Online
11 Mar, 2005
>NuSapiens posts an email interview with me about the book.
R e a d M o r e>Risks of Prohibition
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…
R e a d M o r e>More Transhumanism in the Blogosphere
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…
R e a d M o r e>Transhumanism, Parenting, and Identity
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…
R e a d M o r e>Chris Mooney
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…
R e a d M o r e>First NPR Interview!
9 Mar, 2005
>I’ll be interviewed on Salt Lake City’s NPR affiliate KCPW’s Public Affairs Hour. It happens on Wednesday March 16th at 9:40am local time.
R e a d M o r e>Who is More Than Human Trying to Convince?
9 Mar, 2005
>Alex Pang blogs about his LA Times review of More Than Human. I thought it was a fine a review, quite positive on the “science” part of the book. Alex’s major ding was that the book wouldn’t convince someone who objected to enhancement technology on…
R e a d M o r e>NuSapiens Review
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.
R e a d M o r e>New Reviews
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…
R e a d M o r e>Upcoming Event: Tools for the Development of Humanity
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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