Gordon Moore’s tech vision changed modern times. He wants his giving to change life 10,000 years from now. The post The Quiet Man Behind the Computer Revolution appeared first on Ethics & Pu...
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EPPC’s New Atlantis journal celebrates ten years of concentrating on the human side of scientific progress. The post The New Atlantis Turns Ten appeared first on Ethics & Public Pol...
Monday's decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia halting all federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research... The post Stem Cells, Life, and the Law appeared first...
On Dec. 29, 1959, Richard P. Feynman gave an after-dinner talk at an annual American Physical Society meeting in Pasadena,... The post Feynman and the Futurists appeared first on Ethics & Publ...
Historians, accustomed to rummaging through document-stuffed archives, are now worrying about the future of the past. Our lives, they note,... The post When Folly Is Forever appeared first on ...
Human by Michael S. Gazzaniga (Ecco, 447 pages, $27.50) What is it that makes us human — that sets us... The post The Synapse and the Soul appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center .
It was five years ago this month, on February 1, 2003, that the space shuttle Columbia, returning from two weeks... The post Redeeming NASA appeared first on Ethics & Public Policy Center .
A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millenniumby Robert Friedel, MIT, 588 pages, $39.95 There’s a certain dark pleasure... The post The March of the Machines appeared first ...
Growing ranks of academics, analysts, and advocacy groups are focusing their attentions on the social and ethical implications of nanoscale... The post Nanoethics as a Discipline? appeared fir...
The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes major essays on Man, Mind and Machine and the challenge to define what... The post The New Atlantis, Winter 2006 appeared first on Ethics & Publi...
The potential merging of mind and machine thrills, frightens, and intrigues us. For decades, experiments at the border between... The post The Age of Neuroelectronics appeared first on Ethi...
The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes major essays on the future of modern medicine, the moral education of our... The post The New Atlantis, Fall 2005 appeared first on Ethics & Publ...