Speakers Gregory Stock: Author, thinker
Dr. Gregory Stock's levelheaded look at the hotpoints where tech and ethics connect (or short circuit) have made him a popular guest on TV and radio. He directs the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at UCLA.
Why you should listen to him:
Bestselling author and lecturer Gregory Stock examines the evolutionary significance of technological progress. His 1993 book, Metaman, looks (optimistically) toward a future where the symbiotic relationship between human culture and technology increasingly resembles a "superorganism" that can respond, as a whole, to crises like global warming. 2003's Redesigning Humans poses the alluring -- and sometimes frightening -- possibility that human biology will soon become customizable: no mere question of availability, but a matter of personal choice.
Stock's other work includes Engineering the Human Germline, which looks at the implications of controlled evolution, and a set of perpetually-bestselling tabletop conversation-starters, the flagship of which is The Book of Questions.
"Stock sees the cloning controversy as a distraction from issues of real importance, such as balancing offspring trait selection against eugenics. [He writes with] the clarity and precision of a philosopher."Rob Lightner
Quotes by Gregory Stock
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“The lines are going to blur — and they already are, between therapy and enhancement, between treatment and prevention, between need and desire.”
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“What if we could unravel aging and understand it — begin to retard the process or even reverse it?”
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Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human
- 17:51 Posted: Apr 2009
Gregory Stock on the Web
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Conferences
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- TED2003