Future Perfect

Citizen Cyborg
10.01.2006
(was 10.23.2005)

Consider this future world: a vaccine that makes you continually happy.  A chip in your brain that lets you communicate telepathically with your spouse.  Human lives that span hundreds of years.  Sound far-fetched?  Not according the James Hughes of the World Trans-humanist Association.  He says all this will happen.  It’s just a matter of when - not if.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we’ll speculate on what some are calling the post-human future.

  1. Bill McKibben on Germline Genetic Engineering

    Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution

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  2. James Hughes on Transhumans

    James Hughes is excited about the new Post-human world. He tells Anne Strainchamps why people can and should be stronger, healthier and smarter than they are.

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  3. Kazuo Ishiguro on "Never Let Me Go"

    Kazuo Ishiguro talks with Steve Paulson about his book about a boarding school full of cloned children bred to donate their organs.

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  4. Daniel Wilson on "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"

    Daniel Wilson, author of “How to Survive a Robot Uprising” tells Jim Fleming the secret is to go for their sensors!

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  5. Margaret Atwood on "Oryx and Crake"

    Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood talks with Steve Paulson about her dystopian science fiction book, “Oryx and Crake.”

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