Better Babies Through Evolution? Richard Weikart on the Siren Song of Transhumanism

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Thanks to "advances" in technology, we're turning over a frightening future to our children and grandchildren. On one hand, there is the world of the Internet and the wilderness of glowing screens, which in a couple of decades have already done so much to degrade, numb, misinform, isolate, and addict us.

On the other hand, there is the prospect of technological "fixes" for everything that's deficient about us, from the medical to the moral.

Which is the scarier? I would instinctively say th...