Book "Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution" by Francis Fukuyama
Book "Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution" by Francis Fukuyama

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

May 10, 2002

"We need to steer technology towards aims that are clearly therapeutic and away from ones that involve essentially human redesign, trying to improve our human species . . . . That was tried at great cost over the past couple of centuries and rejected as costly and ineffective."

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