In a meeting on campus the other day, someone said to me: “The college is a business.” I responded: “No, it’s not. There might be business done in the college, but it is an institution of higher education.” I know that many in this state — and perhaps around the country — are trying to [...]
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Katrinko Must Die
In the preface to his 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines, Raymond Kurzweil suggests that the most important question that we will face this century is how we define the “human.”
Big Brother
This has been a biotech news kind of week. Scientist David Gelernter reviews Bill McKibben’s latest book Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age in Wired. McKibben forcasts “a frightening catastrophe brought on by human obliviousness” from casual genetic modifications to human beings. He sees designer babies as bound to backfire, like buying the latest computer and [...]