February 18, 2021

The Code Breaker and Crispr People — the ethics of editing humanity

(Financial Times) For all the headlines generated by the experiment in Shenzhen, it did not spark a global ethical debate about Crispr, the gene-editing technology that will almost certainly be used to change the course of life. While the world clashed … Read More

July 16, 2020

Transhumanism in Film: Are Technologically-Enhanced Beings our Lesser or Equal?

(Irish Tech News) Trans-humanist theory is contextualised within the 2014 science-fiction thriller “Ex Machina” and also within formal animation, such as the 1999 animated classic “The Iron Giant”. Despite both films showing trans-humanist logic, there are clear distinctions in the way … Read More