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标题：Techniken der Überschreitung. Fertigungsmechanismen verlässlich lebensfähiger biologischer Entitäten
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作者：Kathrin Friedrich ; Gabriele Gramelsberger
期刊名称：Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft
印刷版ISSN：1869-1722
电子版ISSN：2296-4126
出版年度：2011
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：31-37
DOI：10.1524/zfmw.2011.0003
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摘要：The current debates on converging technologies and synthetic biology come along with a strong trans-humanist techno-futurism. Mankind creates increasingly access to new dimensions by learning to manipulate very small entities. Thus, shaping the world atom by atom respectively cell by cell. Furthermore, the advertised convergence of technologies as a convergence on a material level atoms, cells, bits, neurons will enable new products like bio-nano machines, brain-to-machine interfaces, neuromorphic engineering, and nano implantats. This will herald a new and (of course) golden age of improving human performance. That this is meant to be more than an ironic slogan, is documented in the initial 2002-report of the US-American National Science Foundation: Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance. This paper discusses the feasibility of this vision by analyzing the case of Synthetic Biology. It explores the concept of technological agency in these new dimensions and discusses the..
关键词：Transhumanismus; Converging Technologies; Synthetische Biologie; Nanotechnologie