The New Atlantis, Winter 2006

Published February 20, 2006

The New Atlantis

By Adam Keiper & Christine Rosen, et al.

The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes major essays on Man, Mind and Machine and the challenge to define what is “human”; a search for the connection between domestic tranquility and our domestic technology; how the blogger “Davids” are slaying the mainstream media “Goliath”; the scientific corruption at the heart of the Korean stem cell scandal and much more.

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Essay:

• The Age of Neuroelectronics
  Adam Keiper on neural implants, brain-machine interfaces, and cyborg fantasies.
• The Trouble with the Turing Test
  Mark Halpern on the fallacy of thinking computers.
• The Rhetoric of Extinction
  Charles T. Rubin reviews four recent books on transhumanism.
• Are We Worthy of our Kitchens?
  Christine Rosen on expensive appliances and modern families.
• Who Owns the Genome?
  Misha Angrist and Robert M. Cook-Deegan on intellectual property and genomics.

Excerpt:

• The Age of Guerrilla Media
  Glenn Reynolds on blogs, Big Media, and the future of journalism—from his new book An Army of Davids.

State of the Art:

• Human Cloning and Scientific Corruption
• The U.N.’s Net Gambit
• The $100 Laptop
• Morals and the Mind
• ‘No Nation Can Afford to Ignore This Threat’
• Notes & Briefs

Looking Ahead/Looking Back:

• TV is Dead, Long Live TV
• Discovering Pluto