Emerging Technologies

Transhumanism

"Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization." - Bruce Sterling, American science fiction author Transhumanism is a term symbolized by H+ and often used as a synonym for "human enhancement." It has developed into an international and cultural movement supporting the use of sciences and technologies to enhance human mental and physical abilities and aptitudes. Transhumanism...

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Sex Selection Abortion

Prenatal discrimination based on gender typically target girls. Sex selection abortion is used to prevent the birth of a child of an undesired sex:  abortion is chosen solely on the basis of the unborn baby's gender.  The victims of these abortions are overwhelmingly female. Sex-selection abortion was once thought confined to certain parts of Asia.  It has now spread to other continents and is now practiced here in the United States of America and even in Georgia.  No nation committed to...

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