Radical Evolution
The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies - and What It Means to Be Human
Prologue
The Future of Human Nature
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not
understood.
-Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
This book can't begin with the tale of the telekinetic monkey.
That certainly comes as a surprise. After all, how often does
someone writing nonfiction get to lead with a monkey who can move
objects with her thoughts?
If you lunge at this opportunity, however, the story comes out all
wrong. It sounds like science fiction, for one thing, even though the
monkey-a cute little critter named Belle-is completely real and
scampering at Duke University.
This gulf between what engineers are actually creating today and
what ordinary readers might find believable is significant. It is the
first challenge to making sense of this world unfolding before us, in
which we face the biggest change in tens of thousands of years in
what it means to be human.
This book aims at letting a general audience in on the vast changes
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