Mind the gap — between dream and reality
Uploading our minds to a computer could take centuries. Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist and now director of engineering at Google, believes that by 2045 it...
UK transgender woman wants to be both father and mother
Another dispatch from the Wild West of assisted reproductive technology. Another dispatch from the Wild West of assisted reproductive technology. The third place contestant in...
An uphill battle for transhumanists
“They think we’re fantasists when in fact we’re talking about a future just over the horizon.” Notwithstanding a wide range of approaches, the ultimate goal...
Transhumanist launches campaign for US President
Zoltan Istvan is running for President in America’s 2016 elections. Transhumanism is a broad church embracing many different approaches. But it has enough followers to...
In defence of state-mandated eugenics
A British sociologist thinks that state-run eugenics programs may be acceptable in the future. The notion of a state-organised eugenics programs is enough to unsettle...
Bioethicists push “3-parent embryos” in US
Some American bioethicists immediately took to the media to promote the technique. After “three-parent embryos” were legalised in Britain last week, some American bioethicists immediately...
UK surgeons call for regulation of cosmetic “cowboys”
The Royal College of Surgeons is sick and tired of horror stories and unqualified doctors. Sick and tired of horror stories of botched cosmetic surgery...
Eugenics making a comeback as a respectable policy
After hibernating for 60 years, eugenics is making a comeback, both in academic and popular spheres. After hibernating for 60 years, eugenics is making a...
Jimmy Savile meets bioethics
As details continue to emerge of Jimmy Savile’s horrific crimes, a bioethicist is questioning the complicity of healthcare workers in allowing for the abuses. As...
Remembering Nikola Tesla, eugenicist
He thought that the unfit should be sterilized. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk celebrated Nikola Tesla’s birthday this week with a US$1 million donation to set...
Is moral bioehancement even possible?
A new article in Bioethics criticises the moral bioenhancement debate as misguided and framed on gratuitous assumptions. The authors – Inmaculada de Melo-Martin (Cornell) and...
Alas, moral bioehancement won’t stop climate change
Several recent articles in leading journals have considered the ability of moral bioehancement to produce ‘environmentally conscious’ citizens and thus (indirectly) reduce carbon emissions. In...