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What Price Freedom?

Robert A. Freitas Jr.

05/05/2006

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Is a tyrannized humanity worth
preserving, even at the expense of
its freedom, in order to maintain
the very existence of the human
species, recognizing that global
tyranny is a logical end-state of
the unchecked spread of
nanotechnology-enabled dictatorships
that are capable of employing
perfect mind control?

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Nanoethics and Technological
Revolutions: A Precis.

Nick Bostrom

05/05/2006

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If we believe that nanotechnology
will eventually amount to a
technological revolution, and if we
are going to attempt nanoethics, we
should consider some of the earlier
technological revolutions that
humanity has undergone and how our
moral principles and technology
impact assessment exercises would
have fared.

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More Essays on Nanotechnology
Implications

Chris Phoenix

Mike Treder

05/05/2006

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Members of the Global Task Force of
The Center for Responsible
Nanotechnology (CRN) have written 11
new essays addressing the
implications of molecular
manufacturing. KurzweilAI.net will
be posting all 11, starting today
with essays by Nick Bostrom
(Nanoethics and Technological
Revolutions) and Robert A. Freitas,
Jr. (What Price Freedom?).

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