Agar, Nicholas <br/><br/>
Humanity’s end :  why we should reject radical enhancement / 
Nicholas Agar 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  MIT Press,  c2010 
 - viii, 219 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Life and mind .
 - Life and mind .
<br/><br/> "A Bradford book." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index 
<br/><br/>What is radical enhancement? -- Radical enhancement and posthumanity -- The technologist : Ray Kurzweil and the law of accelerating returns -- Is uploading ourselves into machines a good bet? -- The therapist : Aubrey de Grey’s strategies for engineered negligible senescence -- Who wants to live forever? -- The philosopher : Nick Bostrom on the morality of enhancement -- The sociologist : James Hughes and the many paths of moral enhancement -- A species-relativist conclusion about radical enhancement 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262014625 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human evolution--Effect of technological innovations on<br/>Technological innovations--Social aspects