Examines key trends in emerging strategic technologies and the implications for geopolitics and human dignity. Al-Rodhan argues that future evolution into transhumans is inevitable. In preparation, the global community is urged to establish strict moral and legal guidelines balancing innovation with the guarantee of dignity for all.
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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 28 Apr 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780230290846
About Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan
Dr. Nayef R.F.Al-Rodhan is Senior Member of St. Antony's College University of Oxford UK and Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy Switzerland. He is a philosopher neuroscientist and geostrategist. A prize-winning scholar he has published twenty one books proposing many innovative concepts and theories in global politics security philosophy and history. He was educated at Yale University the Mayo Clinic and Harvard University. He is best known for several philosophical and analytic books on global politics that include: The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West (Palgrave 2012); Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man; Emotional Amoral Egoism; Neo-Statecraft and Meta-Geopolitics; The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies (Palgrave 2011); and Symbiotic Realism.