Citizen Cyborg
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| Author(s) | James Hughes |
| Publisher | Westview Press (hardcover) Basic Books (paperback) |
| Publication date | October 31, 2004 |
| Pages | 294 (hardcover) 320 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0813341981 |
| OCLC Number | 56632213 |
Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future is a 2004 non-fiction book by bioethicist and sociologist James Hughes, which articulates democratic transhumanism as a socio-political ideology and program.[1]
The editors of the popular science magazine Scientific American recommended Citizen Cyborg in their April 2005 issue.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Hughes, James (2004). Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future. Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-4198-1.
- ^ Hall, Brian K. (2005). Evo Devo is the New Buzzword: For the 200-year-old search for links between embryos and evolution. http://www.morethanhuman.org/reviews/sciam.pdf. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
[edit] See also
- Bioconservatism
- Democratic transhumanism
- Gattaca argument
- Gattaca critical reception
- Libertarian transhumanism
[edit] External links
Reviews
- Citizen Cyborg Reviews
- Forman, Frank. Transhumanism's Vital Center. Journal of Evolution and Technology (April 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
- Doctorow, Cory. Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg. Boing Boing (11 April 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
- Ford, Alyssa. Humanity: The Remix. Utne Reader (May/June 2005) . Retrieved on 2011-07-07
- Bailey, Ronald. Trans-Human Expressway. Reason (11 May 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
- Cave, Stephen; Cave, Friederike von Tiesenhausen. The most dangerous idea on earth?, Financial Times (27 May 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
- Arrison, Sonia. Future Humans. TechNewsWorld (6 October 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
