Films from the Future - Andrew Maynard

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      Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies

      Library of Congress Cataloging

      ISBN: (print) 978-1-63353-907-5 (ebook) 978-1-63353-906-8

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018955574

      BISAC category code: SCI075000—SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects

      Printed in the United States of America

      To Clare, for believing in me.

      Table of Contents

       Chapter One

       In the Beginning

       Beginnings

       Welcome to the Future

       The Power of Convergence

       Socially Responsible Innovation

       A Common Point of Focus

       Spoiler Alert

       Jurassic Park: The Rise of Resurrection Biology

       When Dinosaurs Ruled the World

       De-Extinction

       Could We, Should We?

       The Butterfly Effect

       Visions of Power

       Never Let Me Go: A Cautionary Tale of Human Cloning

       Sins of Futures Past

       Cloning

       Genuinely Human?

       Too Valuable to Fail?

       Minority Report: Predicting Criminal Intent

       Criminal Intent

       The “Science” of Predicting Bad Behavior

       Criminal Brain Scans

       Machine Learning-Based Precognition

       Big Brother, Meet Big Data

       Chapter Five

       Limitless: Pharmaceutically-enhanced Intelligence

       A Pill for Everything

       The Seduction of Self-Enhancement

       Nootropics

       If You Could, Would You?

       Privileged Technology

       Our Obsession with Intelligence

       Chapter Six

       Elysium: Social Inequity in an Age of Technological Extremes

       The Poor Shall Inherit the Earth

       Bioprinting Our Future Bodies

       The Disposable Workforce

       Living in an Automated Future

       Chapter Seven

       Ghost in the Shell: Being Human in an Augmented Future

       Through a Glass Darkly

       Body Hacking

      

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