BioIT World describes the role of Presidential Bioethics Commission member and recent adventurer in bioethics Francis Fukuyama’s pronouncement that human enhancement – in its aggregate, transhumanism – is awful, evil stuff. It has become clear that Fukuyama has done more to bring transhumanism into the public debate than any of its proponents, giving lots of space for public discussion of the ways in which human enhancement might make sense, and of ways in which that process can be understood and managed. No doubt this was not Fukuyama’s plan, but the result has been great articles like this one, “More than Human.”
Labels: human enhancement, media and bioethics, President’s Council on Bioethics, transhumanism