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Information and Biological Revolutions
Global Governance Challenges — Summary of a Study Group
This report summarizes the issues that arose and the discussions held during the meetings of a 1998-1999 study group focusing on global governance of information technology and biotechnology. The goal was to bring a policy perspective to bear on a discussion of new technological developments through a series of free-flowing and exploratory presentations and discussions.
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Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction: Governance Challenges of the Dual Revolutions in Information and Biotechnology
Chapter Two:
The Promise and Challenge of Emerging Technologies
Chapter Three:
The Problem of Governance
Chapter Four:
Possible Government Actions: Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix A:
Evolution on the Timescale of Thought and Action: Darwinian Approaches to Language, Planning and Consciousness, and Some Lessons from Paleoclimate About How to Speed up Evolution
Appendix B:
Quantum Theory and Human Consciousness
Appendix C:
Morals, Demonic Males and Evolutionary Psychology
Appendix D:
Implications for Public Policy of the Information and Communications Revolution
Appendix E:
Biology, History, and Social Organization
Appendix F:
Triumph or Tragedy: the Moral Meaning of Genetic Technology
Appendix G:
The Conversion of Genetics and Computing: Implications for Medicine, Society, and Individual Identity
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