Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering

by Maxwell J. Mehlman

Book Overview

What will happen when technology allows us to direct our own evolution?

Transhumanists advocate for the development and distribution of technologies that will enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities, even eliminate aging. What if the dystopian futures and transhumanist utopias found in the pages of science journals, Margaret Atwood novels, films like Gattaca, and television shows like Dark Angel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421406691
• ISBN13: 9781421406695
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.1"