Table of Contents
Resources
Texts
Required
- Joy, Bill. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, Wired 8.04
- Clark, Andy. Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence. Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Dreyfus, Hubert L. On the Internet. Routledge, 2001.
- Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences Of The Biotechnology Revolution. Macmillan, 2003.
Recommended
- Gershenfeld, Neil A. When Things Start to Think. Macmillan, 1999.
- Moore, Pete. Enhancing Me: The Hope and the Hype of Human Enhancement. John Wiley & Sons, Limited, 2008.
- Silver, Lee M. Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family. Harper Collins, 2007.
- Wolfe, Thomas. Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died.
Links
- Netvibes: Drones, Clones and Cyborgs Netvibes site
- Diigo: Post bookmarks to the class Diigo site. Our group is “Clones Drones Cyborgs.”
- Honors Facebook Page - Join
- YouTube: YouTube Playlist for Clones, Drones and Cyborgs
Movies and Film Clips
Streaming movies and clips require the class username and password that I'll share with you in class.
- Blade Runner. Dir. Ridley Scott. Warner Home Video, 1982. (Final Cut edition, 2007.)
- I. Robot. I, Robot. Dir. Alex Proyas. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004.
- eXistenZ (Hulu)
- Artificial Intelligence (Hobie's Proposal)
- Beyond Human: The Age of Androids (Hulu clips)
- Gattaca (complete movie)
- Gattaca (selected scene)
- Smart Wearables (with Alan Alda)
- Measure of a Man (Star Trek)
- Medieval Help Desk (Youtube)
- Ray Kurzweil on How Technology will Transform Us (TED Conference)
- Send in the Clones An episode of The Simpsons in which Homer gets cloned.