1 Jan 2021
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In 2005, futurist Ray Kurzweil claimed the next technological revolution would rest upon advances in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, with robotics being probably the most impactful of the three technologies. Genetic engineering will enable far larger management over human organic nature via a process referred to as directed evolution. Some thinkers imagine that this may shatter our sense of self, and have urged for renewed public debate exploring the difficulty more completely; others worry that directed evolution might result in eugenics or extreme social inequality. Nanotechnology will grant us the flexibility to manipulate matter “at the molecular and atomic scale”,…
