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The politics of emerging strategic technologies: implications for geopolitics, human enhancement and human destiny

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Emerging technologies hold great promise but also pose major challenges to global politics, national and international security, human dignity and human destiny. This book examines the latest innovations, key trends and geopolitical and human implications of emerging strategic technologies such as Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Artificial Intelligence. The potential use and misuse of these technologies in human enhancement (physical and cognitive) is considered to be one of the major challenges of our time. Nayef Al-Rodhan argues that human enhancement and the future evolution into transhumans is inevitable. To prepare for these potential existential threats, the global community is urged to establish strict moral and legal guidelines that balance the need for innovation with the guarantee of dignity for all

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St. Antony's series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

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303.483 ALR p

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan., 2011

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ix, 339 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Language

English

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9780230290846

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303.483

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Subject(s)

Technology
Technological innovations
Geopolitics

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