The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

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

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

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