{"241821":{"#nid":"241821","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Radical Evolution: The Ethics of Becoming the Best Cyborgs We Can Be","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Center for Ethics and Technology welcomes Joel Garreau, Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values at Arizona State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESummary:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe are merging our technologies with our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, our progeny and perhaps our souls. Not in some distant science-fiction future but right now, on our watch. What wisdom does this require?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the speaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoel Garreau is the Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values at Arizona State University. His core appointments are in the Sandra Day O\u2019Connor College of Law and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. In addition, he is affiliated with over a dozen centers and initiatives all aimed at bringing crossdisciplinary creativity to his main area of focus: technology\u2019s impact on culture, values and society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA former long-time reporter and editor for The Washington Post, he has served as a fellow at the University of Cambridge, the University of California at Berkeley and George Mason University, and as an affiliate of the University of Oxford\u0027s James Martin 21st Century School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoel is most recently the author of \u201cRadical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies \u2013 and What It Means to Be Human.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Forum:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe George H. and Faye C. Sparks Forum is supported by the Sparks Endowment of the GT Foundation. The Forum provides an opportunity to examine the ethical dimensions of engineering practice, including the application of ethical principles to professional decisionmaking.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Center for Ethics and Technology welcomes Joel Garreau, Lincoln Professor of Law, Culture and Values at Arizona State University.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Center for Ethics and Technology welcomes Arizona St. University Professor Joel Garreau"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2013-10-02 11:51:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:05:00","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-10-22T15:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-10-22T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-10-22T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-10-22 19:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-10-22 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-10-22 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ethics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Ethics and Technology"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.garreau.com\/main.cfm?action=bio","title":"About Joel Garreau"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"75541","name":"cyborgs"},{"id":"1496","name":"Ethics"},{"id":"75551","name":"human evolution"},{"id":"167030","name":"Sparks Forum"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Borenstein\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2801\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}