The Not-Quite-Human Rights Movement

An anonymous reader writes "Yale University hosted a conference on transhumanism which organizers say served to coalesce transhumanism from a subculture to a 'movement.' They're even sketching out where the role of violence becomes legitimate in the quest to become a cyborg. But most of the talk was of peaceful integration and continuation of democratic values."

Comments

Oh my!

[pj737]

Is that a bionic penis!?

"trans-humans" have been around for decades now

[Thoguth]

They're called "corporations" and they already have equal (or-better) protection under the law. Unfortunately, they don't seem very interested in ethics.

Re:chicken before the egg?

[gurps_npc]

I strongly disagree. (First of all the segway was not "ahead of it's time" it was an incredibally more expensive User Interface attached to a motorized skateboard. The creator thought the U.I. was worth a ton of extra money. This is known as stupidity.)

And this kind of convention HAS to be done excessively ahead of their time. Because science is often revolutionary, not evolutionary. In 1860, Heavier than air flight was considered impossible. 50 years later flight was common. 50 years after that they had space flight.

We are not dictators, but a democracy. As such it takes us years to come up with a law, decades to come up with a GOOD law. We need to start thinking about and discussing things before they happen so that we will have time to come up with a good law instead of putting something on the books in a hurray because the TV is demanding weekends off.

Convention Flyer ...

[bmajik]

"Welcome to the First Annual International Gathering of Male Virgins"

"Star Trek NOW Society"

"RoboDorks"