Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.