online archive
5:00PM
OCT 15 2007
The challenges of transhumanism
The challenges of transhumanism: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (ASU): Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Philosophical, Religious, and Ethical Considerations. A review of The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever by David M. Friedman. From Technology Review, human-animal cybrids: An interview with biologist Ian Wilnut on his cloning plans for the future. Craig Venter has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth (and a response: This "new life form" is just reassembled car parts). A god of small things: Natural selection in the laboratory creates a new species of virus.
