Nestor Micheli Morales (CUNY): Psychological and Ideological Aspects of Human Cloning: A Transition to a Transhumanist Psychology. You, the updated owner’s manual: Biotechnology is ushering in changes that sound freakish today but will soon seem utterly normal. From Prospect, the age of enhancement: A cornucopia of drugs will soon be on sale to improve everything from our memories to our trust in others. The introduction to Human Enhancement. Here's a report on Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers. From IEET, Nick Bostrom on the posthuman possibility space, including catastrophic risks and the concept of the Singularity; and fantasists ponder a future of superlongevity, superintelligence, and superabundance, as if wishing will make it happen — meanwhile, people are dying. A review of Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer by David Boyd Haycock. Who wants to live forever? One might be tempted to respond by asking "Who wouldn’t?" Immortalism: An article on Ernest Becker and Alan Harrington on overcoming biological limitations. How fast are humans mutating? Katherine Harmon investigates. From The New Yorker, synthetic biologists are convinced that they will be able to not only alter nature but guide human evolution as well. Do transhumanists hold a set of beliefs that effectively offer an alternative to traditional religions, and if so, is that necessarily bad? It's time to play God: If Craig Venter's research leads to engineering new forms of life, mankind has hope for the future.
