May 31, 2016
(News-Medical) – Our excitement with and rapid uptake of technology – and the growing opportunities for artificial brain enhancement – are putting humans more firmly on the path to becoming cyborgs, according to evolution experts from the University of Adelaide. … Read More
April 29, 2016
AI & Society (vol. 31, no. 2, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Artificial Super Intelligence: Beyond Rhetoric” by Karamjit S. Gill “Presence: Is It Just Pretending?” by Phil Turner “Simulation, Self-Extinction, and Philosophy in the Service of … Read More
April 21, 2016
(The New Yorker) – It was the annual meeting of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, a group of people who believe that the development and dissemination of advanced technologies—cryogenics, bionics, artificial intelligence, and so on—will raise humanity to the heights of power … Read More
March 8, 2016
(Fortune) – As the Baby Boomer generation heads toward retirement, the number of Americans over the age of 65 is expected to hit 69 million people by 2030. That represents 20% of the U.S. population, up from today’s share of … Read More
March 2, 2016
PLOS Medicine (vol. 13, no. 2, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Transforming Living Kidney Donation with a Comprehensive Strategy” by Matthew B. Allen and Peter P. Reese “The Rise of Consumer Health Wearables: Promises and Barriers” by Lukasz Piwek, … Read More
March 1, 2016
Bioethics (vol. 30, no. 3, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Ashley Treatment: Improving Quality of Life or Infringing Dignity and Rights?” by Caroline Harnacke “The Ethics of Continued Life-Sustaining Treatment for Those Diagnosed as Brain-Dead” by Jessica … Read More
February 16, 2016
The Journal of the American Medical Association (vol. 315, no. 6, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Machine Learning and the Profession of Medicine” by Alison M. Darcy, Alan K. Louie, and Laura Weiss Roberts “Policy Solutions for … Read More
February 4, 2016
Science and Engineering Ethics (vol. 22, no. 1, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Convergence of Virtual Reality and Social Networks: Threats to Privacy and Autonomy” by Fiachra O’Brolchain, et al. “Robotic Nudges: The Ethics of Engineering … Read More
January 28, 2016
(CBS News) – It’s a pursuit that seems more like the plot of a science fiction movie than an actual goal of serious researchers around the world. But a number of scientists are fiercely working toward what was once only … Read More
January 27, 2016
Scientific American (vol. 314, no. 2, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Beware Prenatal Gene Screens” “Even Genius Needs a Benefactor” by Nathan Myhrvold “Talk Therapy” by Anne Pycha “For Sale: Your Medical Records” by Adam Tanner “Bitter … Read More
January 15, 2016
Nursing Philosophy (vol. 17, no. 1, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Radical Nursing and the Emergence of Technique as Healthcare Technology” by Alan Barnard “Cyborgs, Biotechnologies, and Informatics in Health Care—New Paradigms in Nursing Sciences” by Ana … Read More
January 14, 2016
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 12, no. 4, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Vaccine Refusal and Trust: The Trouble with Coercion and Education and Suggestions for a Cure” by Johan Christiaan Bester “Intellectual Property in Genetic Material” … Read More
December 29, 2015
(The Washington Post) – But the discussion reflects a broader truth: We live in an age in which machine intelligence has become a part of daily life. Computers fly planes and soon will drive cars. Computer algorithms anticipate our needs … Read More
December 15, 2015
Zygon (vol. 50, no. 4, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Medical Management of Infant Intersex: The Juridico-Ethical Dilemma of Contemporary Islamic Legal Response” by Sayed Sikandar Shah Haneef and Mahmood Zuhdi Haji Abd Majid “The Evolution of … Read More
December 14, 2015
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 41, no. 12, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Summary of Saviour Siblings” by Michelle Taylor-Sands “Human Dignity in Bioethics and Law” by Charles Foster “No View from Nowhere: The Challenge of Grounding Dignity … Read More
December 11, 2015
The New Bioethics (vol. 21, no. 2, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Representative Aspects of Some Synthetic Gametes” by Calum Mackellar “Transhumanisim: A New Kind of Promethean Hubris” by Agneta Sutton “Lessons in Biopolitics and Agency: Agamben … Read More
December 9, 2015
NanoEthics (vol. 9, no. 3, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Analyses of Acceptability Judgments Made Toward the Use of Nanocarrier-Based Targeted Drug Deliver: Interviews with Researchers and Research Trainees in the Field of New Technologies” by Vanessa … Read More
December 3, 2015
(Medical Daily) – Humans have been trying to cheat death for centuries. But while this may have seemed like an impossible pipe dream, the evolution of technology is making it all the more possible that it’s only a matter of … Read More
November 20, 2015
(Yahoo! News) – Will men be able to give birth sooner than, well, never? That’s the question provoked by last week’s announcement that the Cleveland Clinic is performing uterus transplant surgery on women who were born without a womb or … Read More
November 16, 2015
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 40, no. 6, 2015) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Taming Our Brave New World” by Joshua A. Reagan “Surrogate Motherhood: A Trust-Based Approach” by Katharina Beier “Procreative Beneficence, Intelligence, and the … Read More
November 2, 2015
(Pacific Standard) – Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem “Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” has the hopeful, reverential tone of a prayer. What Brautigan longs for in the poem is a utopia without work, where humans are “joined back to … Read More
October 15, 2015
(BBC) – Earlier this year, a two-year-old Thai girl became the youngest person to be cryogenically frozen, preserving her brain moments after death in the hope that she will one day be brought back to life. The BBC’s Jonathan Head … Read More
October 14, 2015
(New York Times) – I am a theoretical neuroscientist. I study models of brain circuits, precisely the sort of models that would be needed to try to reconstruct or emulate a functioning brain from a detailed knowledge of its structure. … Read More
September 21, 2015
(BBC) – Zoltan Istvan is running for US president. He’s the leader of the Transhumanist Party, which is campaigning to develop technology that would help us to live forever. That is also why he is driving round the US in … Read More
September 15, 2015
(BBC) – As technology advances, a group of people known as transhumanists are increasingly seeking ways to enable us to live on in new forms. How plausible are their ideas? “We have this strange idea that dying is something we … Read More
