New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates Science, technology and our future: the big questions
Publication date: May 2002
Summary
Jon Turney examined the market pull that human desires and aspirations would give to certain developments, specifically new knowledge and technology that extended the human lifespan. Any attempt to constrain or control such technology is bound to end in failure. The best we can do is to keep a watch on developments and mitigate the bad effects as they become apparent.
