Human Enhancement

Objectives

  • To explore the technological tools that will allow us to improve our cognition and physical capabilities.
  • To evaluate the underlying motivations for human enhancement.
  • To explore positive and negative applications of enhancement technologies.
  • To identify the key ethical and societal issues that result from widespread enhancement.

Key Concepts

  • Human Enhancement Technologies
  • Brain-machine Interfaces
  • Cyborgs
  • Transhumanism

Module overview

Attempts to improve human cognition and physical abilities date back thousands of years and are exercised every day through seemingly mundane activities such as consuming caffeine or exercising. Yet in recent decades, we have developed a wide array of powerful tools such as genetic engineering and brain-machine interfaces that will allow us to enhance what it means to be human.

Human enhancement, like any other technological tool, can be a double-edged sword. This module explores the positive and negative implications of overcoming our biological limitations.

Details

  • 45

    minutes

  • yes

    certificate

  • no

    pre-requisites

  • 14 - adult

    age

Skills

  • Futures Thinking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Independent learning
  • Digital Literacy

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Quotes

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Activities

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Think

  • Think - Human Enhancement

MCQ

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Evaluate

  • Evaluate - Human Enhancement

Discuss

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End

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