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"Enhancing humans: how far do we go?"
The pros and cons of being smarter, stronger, faster, disease-free… or immortal? The ethics, economics, law and philosophy of perfecting and enhancing the human "machine".
Ray Kurzweil and Baroness Susan Greenfield
A formal debate (like we used to have in high school)
Debate held on March 10, 2006, Palm Springs, California
Co-Organized by NPR’s "Tech Nation"
Moderator: Moira Gunn, PhD, Host of National Public Radio’s "Tech Nation" and "BioTech Nation"
Baroness Susan Greenfield, PhD, Professor, Oxford University; Director, The Royal Institution of Great Britain; UK House of Lords
Ray Kurzweil, PhD, Founder, Chairman, CEO, Kurzweil Technologies; best-selling author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Click here to listen to the Great Debate on audio
The BioAgenda Great Debate was broadcast on "Tech Nation" to over 200 public radio affiliates in the U.S., and to 133 nations abroad the week of March 30, 2006.
The debate was conducted like an old-fashioned high school debate, with each debater getting set periods of time to present their opinions, with timed follow-ups. During the Great Debate the audience was asked to vote on which point of view was best articulated - with a scale given on a sheet of paper that had a "1" for "biotech will save us" and a "5" for "biotech will destroy us". A "3" meant it was too early to tell. Click here to listen to the debate as broadcast on NPR.
Moderator: Dr. Moira Gunn, Host of NPR's Tech Nation
Baroness Susan Greenfield, PhD, Professor, Oxford University; Director, The Royal Institution of Great Britain; UK House of Lords
Ray Kurzweil, PhD, Founder, Chairman, CEO, Kurzweil Technologies; best-selling author of "The Age of Spiritual Machines"
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