Tomorrow's People: How 21st-Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel

by Susan Greenfield

Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

501

Publication

Penguin Books, Limited (UK) (2009), 304 pages

Description

Susan Greenfield explores how the human nature of future generations could be on course for a dramatic alteration, arguing that the current revolution in biomedical science and information technologies will have a huge impact on our brains and central nervous system. She believes that the society in which future generations will live and the way they view themselves will be like nothing our species has yet experienced in the tens of thousands of years to date. makeover far more cataclysmic than anything that has happened before. As we appreciate the dynamism and sensitivity of our brain circuitry, so the prospect of directly tampering with the essence of our individuality becomes a possibility.

User reviews

LibraryThing member fpagan
Possible future developments in lifestyle, robotics, work, reproduction (cloning phobia refreshingly eschewed), education, science (skeptical on nanotech and cryonics), terrorism, and human nature.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

304 p.; 5.08 inches

ISBN

0141008881 / 9780141008882
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