Stevens Institute Of Technology
Nikolas Kompridis has also written concerning the risks of latest technology, similar to genetic engineering, nanotechnology, artificial biology, and robotics. He warns that these applied sciences introduce unprecedented new challenges to human beings, including the potential of the permanent alteration of our organic nature. These considerations are shared by different philosophers, scientists and public intellectuals who’ve written about similar points (e.g. Francis Fukuyama, Jürgen Habermas, William Joy, and Michael Sandel). Generally, technicism is the idea within the utility of technology for bettering human societies. Some, such as Stephen V. Monsma, connect these concepts to the abdication of religion as a …
