If those who survive are the fittest, does that also make them the best? And if so, is engineering ‘better’ babies just evolution, or another step in a long history of eugenics?
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Once genetic lesions for diseases such as cystic fibrosis and haemophilia were identified, the idea of replacing or correcting defective genes grew into what we now call “gene therapy”.
What does it mean to be a responsible, mature and wise technological being? Our future lies in seeking real answers to this type of question.
Professor Marcia Langton opened this year’s Boyer Lectures with an observation that William Stanner’s 1968 Boyer Lectures had “given credence, perhaps inadvertently” to the idea that Aboriginal people…
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Quality and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, Globalisation Studies, Victoria University
