TY - BOOK AU - Agar,Nicholas TI - Humanity’s end: why we should reject radical enhancement T2 - Life and mind SN - 9780262014625 (hbk.) PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Human evolution KW - Effect of technological innovations on KW - Technological innovations KW - Social aspects N1 - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index; 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 ER -