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In 2005, futurist Ray Kurzweil claimed the next technological revolution would rest upon advances in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, with robotics being the most impactful of the three technologies. Genetic engineering will permit far higher control over human biological nature by way of a process referred to as directed evolution. Some thinkers imagine that this will shatter our sense of self, and have urged for renewed public debate exploring the difficulty more totally; others fear that directed evolution might lead to eugenics or extreme social inequality. Nanotechnology will grant us the power to govern matter “at the molecular and atomic…
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