Day: August 11, 2004

Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Transhumanists?

Funny quote from an interesting article by Ronald Bailey on a recent conference about transhumanism (emphasis added),

Well-meaning though transhumanists may be, their efforts are apparently giving some people the willies. “Transhumanists intend to take us on a long march to post humanity,” warns Center for Bioethics and Culture special consultant, Wesley J. Smith. “If that is not to happen, we will have to resist.” Resist longer and happier lives, better health, stronger bodies, and smarter brains? The prospect sounds incredibly dangerous to me! It must be stopped!

Memo to Wesley: Resistance Is Futile.

Source:

The Transhumans are Coming!. Ronald Bailey, Reason, August 11, 2004.

Another Suspicious Alert from a Bush Administration Official

It seems awfully suspicious to me that just at the time that John Kerry is pulling ahead in a swing state that Bush’s brother tries to distract everyone by invoking a state of emergency in Florida. Man, that Bush family will politicize anything just to scare people into voting for W. I hope Howard Dean gives ’em hell over this latest in a growing list of convenient timings of alerts about possible dangers.