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4. Gregory Stock, “Human Germline Engineering: Implications for Science
and Society,” introduction,
http://research.mednet.ulca.edu/pmts/Germline/bhwf.htm.
5. Stock,
Metaman
, 168.
6. Lee M. Silver,
Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in A Brave New World
(New York: Avon Books, 1997), 4, 6.
7. Ibid., 7.
8. Ibid., 11.
9. James Watson, cited in Gregory Stock and John Campbell, ed.,
Engineering
the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the
Genes We Pass to Our Children
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 79.
10. James Watson, cited in Steven Connor, “Nobel Scientist Happy to 'Play God'
with DNA,”
Independent
, May 7, 2000, 7.
11. Freeman J. Dyson,
The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet
(New York:
Oxford University Press), 99-113. Dyson exclaims, “To allow the diversification
of human genomes and lifestyles on this planet to continue without restraint is
a recipe for disaster. Sooner or later, the tensions between diverging ways of life
must be relieved by emigration, some of us finding new places to live away from
the Earth while others stay behind. In the end we must travel the high road into
space, to find new worlds to match our new capabilities. To give us room to
explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one
planet is not enough” (113).
12. Hans Moravec,
Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
(New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999), 7, 11.
13. Ibid., 130, 133.
14. Ibid., 152, 132.
15. Ibid., 146.
16. Shortly after I wrote these words, a biotechnology business firm, Advanced
Cell Technology, announced that it had successfully cloned human embryos,
which died after no more than eight cells. See Gina Kolata, “Company Says
It Produced Human Embryo Clones,”
New York Times
, November 26,
2001, A1.
17. World Transhumanist Association, “The Transhumanist Declaration,”
http://www.transhumanism.org/declaration.htm.
18. Natasha Vita-More, cited in Brendan Bernhard, “The Transhumanists,”
L.A. Weekly
, January, 19-25 2001, 3.
19. Max More, cited in ibid., 6.
20. Natasha Vita-More, cited in Brian Alexander, “Don't Die, Stay Pretty: Intro-
ducing the Ultrahuman Makeover,”
Wired
8, no. 1 (January 2000) 6.
21. FM-2030,
Are You a Transhuman? Monitoring and Stimulating Your Per-
sonal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World
(New York: Warner Books,
1989).
