scholarly journals Emerging technologies, Emerging Risks: Current Approaches on the Future Risks of Human Enhancement Technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-286
Author(s):  
Rui Gaspar ◽  
Jean‐Christophe Giger
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
The Future ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

Imagining Future People in Biomedical Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britta van Beers
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Gene Editing ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Future People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Biomedical Technologies ◽  
Human Genetic Engineering ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

Human genetic engineering and other human enhancement technologies bring about uncertainties and risks on both the physical and the conceptual and intangible levels. Much of the controversy surrounding these emerging technologies is due to the fact that categorical distinctions, such as between person and thing, and chance and choice, are blurred in radical ways. As a consequence, the emergence of biomedical technologies also entails, what could be called, metaphysical risks and symbolic uncertainties. This chapter explores the ways in which imaginings of the future of mankind and mankind itself have found their way into international legal regulation of biomedical technologies through an analysis of recent debates on the international ban on human germline genetic engineering. This prohibition, which is at the heart of international biolaw, is currently being questioned as recent scientific breakthroughs in the field of gene-editing are about to turn human genetic engineering into a reality.

Human Enhancement Technologies and Democratic Citizenship

2015 ◽  
pp. 572-586
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Apathy ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

This chapter articulates that scholars write about Human Enhancement Technologies (HET) in two ways. This is not a reflection of a reality in the literature but rather a heuristic designed to contextualize democratic citizenship within contemporary HET discussions. The first way is to write about HET as possible realities far off into the future. The second way is to write about HET that can be realised seemingly as soon as tomorrow. For democratic citizenship, writing in the first case is either utopian or dystopian. It is either the projection of democracy's total triumph or its utter collapse caused by the type of rots that lead to democide. But writing in the second case is stimulating and vibrant. There are, for example, numerous calls for HET-led reforms in the literature. These reforms are needed to help answer the crisis of the citizen's august discontent (the growing and increasingly legitimized political apathy and political abstention observed in, and performed by, the citizenry). The purpose of this chapter is to focus on this second case—this more developed body of literature—and to theorise the interface between democratic citizenship and HET.

From Boundless Expansion to Existential Threat

Futures ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 332-348
Author(s):  
Apolline Taillandier
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Existential Risk ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

This essay examines visions of the future of human life in transhumanist imaginaries of the posthuman, ranging from utopian figurations to catastrophist warnings. Focusing on libertarian, liberal, and conservative posthuman imaginaries, it argues that the posthuman condition is defined by changing scientific, moral, and political narratives, including ideas of revolutionary change, progressive evolution through the ethical use of human enhancement technologies, and the mitigation of existential risk for the preservation of intelligence and civilization in the long term. Changing posthuman imaginaries, it shows, reshape spaces of present and future political imagination.

Human Enhancement Technologies and Democratic Citizenship

2014 ◽  
pp. 176-190
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Apathy ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

This chapter articulates that scholars write about Human Enhancement Technologies (HET) in two ways. This is not a reflection of a reality in the literature but rather a heuristic designed to contextualize democratic citizenship within contemporary HET discussions. The first way is to write about HET as possible realities far off into the future. The second way is to write about HET that can be realised seemingly as soon as tomorrow. For democratic citizenship, writing in the first case is either utopian or dystopian. It is either the projection of democracy's total triumph or its utter collapse caused by the type of rots that lead to democide. But writing in the second case is stimulating and vibrant. There are, for example, numerous calls for HET-led reforms in the literature. These reforms are needed to help answer the crisis of the citizen's august discontent (the growing and increasingly legitimized political apathy and political abstention observed in, and performed by, the citizenry). The purpose of this chapter is to focus on this second case—this more developed body of literature—and to theorise the interface between democratic citizenship and HET.

Enhancing Humans and Sustainability: The Reunion of Bioethics and Environmental Ethics

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Enhancement Technologies

Emerging technologies are hyped as ‘transformative’ by their proponents, who prophesize that these new technologies will significantly and beneficially change our world. Concerns have been raised about the potential environmental impacts of these technologies. Emerging technologies and their implications on humans, society, and the environment challenge our understanding of our responsibilities to the environment and future generations. Utilizing Van Potter’s sense of bioethics that meant the normative study of humanity’s place in the biosphere, I attempt to reintegrate bioethics and environmental ethics, to address questions about human well-being in the future, its dependence on complex environmental systems, and the impact of emerging technologies particularly enhancement technologies upon it. Ultimately, I argue that the future envisioned by proponents of human enhancement technologies is not consistent with our responsibilities to future generations which including leaving certain amounts of natural capital, including human ones.

Military Force Planning and National Security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mackubin T. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
National Security ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Military Policy ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Force Structure ◽  
The Future ◽  
Force Planning

One component of military policy in particular lies at the very crossroads of strategic planning and structural arenas of policy. This is force planning, the interactive, intertemporal art intended to ensure that deficiencies in today’s force structure are being corrected while preparing for a future that may resemble the present or differ from it in unexpected ways. While force planners must think about what the future security environment might look like, what technologies might be available, and how future forces might leverage these emerging technologies to meet the challenges of a future security environment, they must always be cognizant of domestic structural factors. This chapter argues that a force planner must always be guided by a coherent strategic logic. Structural factors can never be eliminated, but a strong strategic rationale can minimize them.

Internet of Things for the Future of Smart Agriculture: A Comprehensive Survey of Emerging Technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 718-752
Author(s):  
Othmane Friha ◽  
Mohamed Amine Ferrag ◽  
Lei Shu ◽  
Leandros Maglaras ◽  
Xiaochan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Smart Agriculture
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