Citizen Cyborg Explained

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future
Pub Date:	October 31, 2004
Author:	James Hughes
Publisher:	Westview Press (hardcover) Basic Books (paperback)
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 argument
• Gattaca critical reception
• Libertarian transhumanism

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Hughes, James. James Hughes (sociologist). Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future. Westview Press. 2004. 0-8133-4198-1.
2. Hall, Brian K.. Evo Devo is the New Buzzword: For the 200-year-old search for links between embryos and evolution. 2005. 2007-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20070207081123/http://www.morethanhuman.org/reviews/sciam.pdf. 2007-02-07. dead.