Hayles shadowboxes with transhumanism
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Technoprogressive? BioConservative? Huh? Quick overview of biopolitical points of view New at IEETRecent CommentsRoko on 'Singularities Enough, and Time' (2008 07 03) Michalis on 'Getting Paid in Our Jobless Future' (2008 07 03) director on 'Human Genetic Enhancements: A Transhumanist Perspective' (2008 07 02) rich on 'Human Genetic Enhancements: A Transhumanist Perspective' (2008 07 02) jerry on 'It's the Business of the Future to be Dangerous' (2008 07 01) IEET Fora"The chemical or physical inventor is always a Prometheus. There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. But if every physical and chemical invention is a blasphemy, every biological invention is a perversion. There is hardly one which, on first being brought to the notice of an observer from any nation which has not previously heard of their existence, would not appear to him as indecent and unnatural." JBS Haldane, "Daedalus, or Science and the Future" TechEthics News
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