TY - BOOK AU - Agar,Nicholas ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Humanity's end: why we should reject radical enhancement AV - GN281 .A33 2010eb U1 - 303.48/3 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Human evolution KW - Effect of technological innovations on KW - Technological innovations KW - Social aspects KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index; What is radical enhancement? -- Radical enhancement and posthumanity -- The technologist : Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns -- Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet? -- The therapist : Aubrey de Grey's strategies for engineered negligible senescence -- Who wants to live forever? -- The philosopher : Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement -- The sociologist : James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement -- A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10562042 ER -