Book description
Taking us behind the scenes with today’s foremost researchers and pioneers, bestselling author Joel Garreau shows that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through advances in genetic, robotic, information, and nanotechnologies, we are altering our minds,…
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1 author picked Radical Evolution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Garreau’s book highlights the promise and peril of enhancing our minds, our bodies—and what it means to be human.
In this, the 21st Century, AI, cloning, robotics, mind-enhancing drugs, computer chip implants, and bio-engineering pose the stark alternatives of a real-life Utopia or a Brave New World where the very definition of what it means to be human comes into question. Collectively, these scientific breakthroughs will produce “the biggest change in 50,000 to our environment and ourselves as human beings".
Garreau has managed to put these complex concepts into everyday terms and anecdotes that lay people can understand and…
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