>More Than Human 4th on BookTalk
13 Mar, 2005
>According to Technorati’s BookTalk, the fourth most talked about book in the blogosphere is …. More Than Human . It’s right behind The Davinci Code, Blink, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Not bad! Of course, this will probably change by the time you…
R e a d M o r e>It’s Good to Have Friends
13 Mar, 2005
>A gaggle of friends and acquiantances around the web have blogged links to me over the past few days. The only reason the book hit #650 on Amazon in its first few days is the large social network I had who jumped on buying it…
R e a d M o r eWe’re All Transhumanists
13 Mar, 2005
>Thinking about my conversation with Alex Pang about his review of More Than Human in the LA Times. I still think it’s a fine review, the kind that informs people about the book and calls out an honest limitation- More Than Human isn’t going to…
R e a d M o r e>New Lie Detectors – Same Old Problems?
13 Mar, 2005
>David Pescovitz over at BoingBoing blogs about new lie detectors based on facial blood flow. This is fascinating technology, but I find the claims rather hyped. The scientists interviewed in the NewScientist article say things like: “You can double your respiration rate or make it…
R e a d M o r e>Making Light of the Bush Bioethics Agenda
12 Mar, 2005
>Virginia Postrel blogs that Leon Kass is putting together an aggressive bioethics agenda for Bush’s second term. Just what we need. Classical Values saves my mood, though, with an elegant post that manages to simultaneously poke holes in Kass’s logic, poke fun at the man…
R e a d M o r e>Why I Wrote More Than Human
11 Mar, 2005
>I originally posted this as a review on Amazon, but thought it might be interesting here. Why I Wrote This Book In 1999, a friend suggested to me that within a few decades we’d have Matrix-esque implants in our brains that would, among other things,…
R e a d M o r e>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…
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