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Human enhancement 2: Techno-optimism returns, the yuck factor, cultivating our bodies, and the divinisation of humanity

Matters of Life and Death

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Science and Technology Are Going to Solve All Human Problems

In the twentieth century, there was a deep senseo pessimism about the human condition. The old ideas that science and technology are going to solve all human problems were 'a hollow laugh' Now we're suddenly back in an era of extraordinary techno optimism. E m i t and er, the the big university ar promoting the idea that technology is going to solve humanity's problems. This now seems entirely reasonable and an idea whose time has arrived.

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