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A collection of links for my HNR 101 course on technology called "Clones, Drones and Cyborgs."
Updated on 2009-11-20
Created on 2008-06-16
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Chips in brains will control computers by 2020
By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.
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The Singularity and Society
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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Nanomaterials Under Study by the E.P.A. - NYTimes.com
The Environmental Protection Agencydetailed its plans on Tuesday for research into the possible health and environmental risks of nanomaterials, tiny substances that are finding growing use in products like sunscreens and industrial adhesives.
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Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers
We released a new report, "Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers", funded by the US National Science Foundation.
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Clones, Drones and Cyborgs
According to some thinkers technology is what makes us human. Others argue that new technologies threaten human dignity and our very existence.
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Nature vs Nurture, redux
How should we think about ‘nature’ vs ‘nurture’? The issue has been resolved for decades. From On the Brain by Dr. Mike Merzenich,Ph.D.
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1984: It's coming
In the 25 years since the iconic film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopia, US society has crept ever closer to its bleak vision of paranoia, surveillance, perpetual war and unthinkingness, fears Tom Palaima (Times Higher Education)
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How Tiny Nanoparticles Are Transforming Technology : NPR
From cancer treatments to self-cleaning windows and clear solar panels, nanotechnology is revolutionizing medicine, renewable energy and computing. Chemists Mark Ratner and James Gimzewski discuss what's special about nanoscale particles, and how they may shape the future.
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The age of enhancement
A cornucopia of drugs will soon be on sale to improve everything from our memories to our trust in others
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Genes That Make Us Human
Finding genes that have evolved in humans among our genome's 3 billion bases is no easy feat. But now, a team has pinpointed three genes that arose from noncoding DNA and may help make our species unique. Pennisi 2009 (901): 2 -- ScienceNOW
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Robots evolve to deceive one another
In a Swiss laboratory, a group of ten robots is competing for food. Prowling around a small arena, the machines are part of an innovative study looking at the evolution of communication
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Our Posthuman Future
The End of History was a book about progress and how the evolution of human politics had led to liberal democracy and market-oriented economics. Marxists believed in a progressive history which would lead to a socialist utopia. I argued that at the end of the 20th century what we saw instead was a progressive history, which, instead of leading to socialism, was leading to democratic capitalism to which there were not any really clear alternatives.
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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad shorthand" (as University College of London English professor John Sutherland has moaned). An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?
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Robots Do Nanoscale Construction
Access to the nanoscale is advancing extremely rapidly now. How long until we have nanoscale machines capable of building improved nanoscale machines? (Responsible Nanotechnology)
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A History of Transhumanist Thought
This paper traces the cultural and philosophical roots of transhumanist thought and describes some of the influences and contributions that led to the development of contemporary transhumanism. JET 14(1) - April 2005 - Bostrom -
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001
This edition of the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook
coincides with both the start of the new millennium and the 25th
Anniversary of the AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology
Policy. In recognition of these events, it takes both a retrospective and prospective look at S&T policy, and examines the mutual impacts of technology and society. -
Rants & Raves on "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"
Wired's fundamental mission is to be one such setting: a forum for new ideas and arguments, frequently celebrating the revolutions occurring in science and technology, but never afraid to explore any troubling implications as well. Obviously, we don't have all the answers, but we do know some of the best and most important questions. As the future rushes up to meet us, we intend to keep asking them. (Wired 8.07)
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Why the Future Still Needs Us a While Longer
Response to Bill Joy
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Molecular biologist Lee Silver says that while in theory it would be possible to attack males via the Y-chromosome, it now seems we share too much DNA for all women or any one race to be at risk.
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In practice, scientists still haven't figured out how to get artificial nanostructures to self-clone.
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