Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future is a 2004 book by James Hughes about the bioethical issues of creating a society with only some transhuman or modified people while others are left behind unimproved mentally or physically due to economical differences. Those differences, after being biologically enhanced, will only grow more rapidly. To counter this Hughes calls to implement a public policy of democratic improvement to sponsor the poor's enhancements. James Hughes Ph. ... Bioethics is the ethics of biological science and medicine. ... Transhuman is a term that refers to an intermediary form between the human and the posthuman. ...
Democratic transhumanism, a term coined by James Hughes in 2002, refers to the ideas of transhumanists (humanists who support morphological freedom and the ethical use of technologies that enhance human capacities) who espouse liberal, social or radical democratic political views. ... Posthuman Future, an illustration by Michael Gibbs for The Chronicle of Higher Educations look at how biotechnology will change the human experience Transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated >H or H+) is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of new sciences and technologies to enhance human physical and cognitive...
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