Introduction: Why is ethics suddenly white-hot, front-burner? -- 1. Redesigning humans. The ethics of new sex -- Radically redesigning humans -- Renovating our brains? -- Pathologically sick... and imprisoned -- 2. Exponential technologies: today's ethical quicksand. So...you warmed up the planet just a touch? -- Renewing capitalism's license? -- You used do WHAT to animals?! -- Deliberate extinctions: gene drives -- Technology, truthiness, and the demise of institutions -- 3. Caught on the wrong side of history. Just who is supposed to teach us RIGHT and WRONG? -- More recent ethical quicksand: LGBTQIA -- Endangered and extinct religions -- 4. The immortality of today's mistakes. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google are electronic tattoos -- And then there are dating sites... -- 5. Why don't we fix it? Baumol's cost disease -- Mass incarceration -- Everything's disposable... -- 6. Dead wrong: we still do it; we will be judged. Papers, borders, and ethics -- War profiteering -- Can being precautionary kill? -- 7. Conclusion? Ethics 2.0, 3.0, 4.0... -- Postscript: Game changers. Universal ethics? China... -- Artificial intelligence -- Pandemics have a way of focusing your ethics, don't they? -- SETI: first contact.
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