Kaksoisagentti

Kaikki ongelmasi johtuvat siitä, että olet ihminen

Cognitive Enhancement: Methods, Ethics, Regulatory Challenges (PDF) - Nick Bostrom ja Anders Sandberg katsovat älykkyystehosteiden nykytilaa. Nykyjärjestelmässä pitää "keksiä" uusia sairauksia, joita sitten parannetaan, koska tehostelääkettä ei voi antaa suoraan terveille ihmisille.

One of the perverse effects of the failure of the current medical framework to recognize the legitimacy and potential of enhancement medicine is the trend towards medicalization and “pathologization” of an increasing range of conditions that were previous regarded as part of the normal human spectrum. If a significant fraction of the population could obtain certain benefits from drugs that improve e.g. concentration, it is currently necessary to categorize this segment of people as having some disease – in this case attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder – in order to get the drug approved and prescribed to those who could benefit from it. This disease-focused medical model is increasingly inadequate for an era in which many people will be using medical treatments for enhancement purposes.

Minua vaivaa muuten ympärivuotinen joulunalusstressi, saisinko modafiniilia?

Technological Revolutions: Ethics and Policy in the Dark (PDF) - Bostrom tutkailee myös kuinka pimeässä joudumme tekemään tulevaisuutta koskevia päätöksiä, kun teknologisten vallankumousten mustia joutsenia ei näe selvästi vaan hämärästä kuulee pelkkiä heikkoja signaaleja (tämä on oma luova tulkintani, parempi varmaan lukea itse).

The Art of Complex Problem Solving - Tässä voisi olla yksi tapa järjestää päätöksentekoprosessia tehokkaammaksi.

The Helicopter Archipelago
For those of us trapped in a cultural desert, Archigram had another solution: the Instant City, flown in by hot-air balloon and helicopter and deposited anywhere in the world. The roofs, domes and canopies of a new metropolis could earn an official post-code in the blink of an eye. There is no reason, however, to limit those helicopters to a role as mere delivery vehicles. The helicopters themselves could be liberated to form their own city – an airborne utopia, endlessly aloft, wandering through the planetary atmosphere. A helitopia, perhaps. They could form, in other words, a helicopter archipelago, or flying island-chain, a brand new player in the sphere of geopolitics.

Posted by kaksoisagentti at October 19, 2006 02:22 AM