Mitchellmemo39

First, I hope that my book would provide a language for engaging in the ethical decision-making that is no doubt currently (and will continue to be) necessary. To me, it seems that much of the present “common sense” simply no longer works (which is the heart of the text) for the debates around things like human-animal chimeras and the like, thus such an update in our discourse is vitally necessary. This has implications in thinking about the biological world, nature and technology. While this does not explicitly promote a particular future, I think knowing the nuances of the issues is hugely important to a fruitful exploration of the future. Further, people often complain that policy makers do not “understand” issues involving all things internet…a technology that most policy makers use on a daily basis. How then will they bear with a technoscience, just as important, yet far more distant from their own lives? Providing what I would hope to be a means for understanding many of the issues, is I think, vitally important for filling in (at least) some of this gap.