Citizen Cyborg

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future

Author	James Hughes
Publisher	Westview Press (hardcover) Basic Books (paperback)
Publication date	October 31, 2004
Pages	294 (hardcover) 320 (paperback)
ISBN	0-8133-4198-1
OCLC	56632213

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future is a 2004 non-fiction book by bioethicist and sociologist James Hughes, which articulates democratic transhumanism as a socio-political ideology and program. ^[1]

The editors of the popular science magazine Scientific American recommended Citizen Cyborg in their April 2005 issue. ^[2]

See also

• Bioconservatism
• Democratic transhumanism
• Gattaca critical reception
• Libertarian transhumanism

References

1. Hughes, James (2004). Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future. Westview Press. ISBN   0-8133-4198-1.
2. Hall, Brian K. (2005). "Evo Devo is the New Buzzword: For the 200-year-old search for links between embryos and evolution" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-02-07. Retrieved 2007-03-06.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

• Google Books: Citizen Cyborg
• Citizen Cyborg References and Resources by Chapter

Reviews

• Citizen Cyborg Reviews
• Forman, Frank. Transhumanism's Vital Center . Journal of Evolution and Technology (April 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
• Doctorow, Cory. Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg . Boing Boing (11 April 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
• Ford, Alyssa. Humanity: The Remix . Utne Reader (May/June 2005) . Retrieved on 2011-07-07
• Bailey, Ronald. Trans-Human Expressway . Reason (11 May 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
• Cave, Stephen; Cave, Friederike von Tiesenhausen. The most dangerous idea on earth? , Financial Times (27 May 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07
• Arrison, Sonia. Future Humans . TechNewsWorld (6 October 2005). Retrieved on 2011-07-07