upgrading humans

UPGRADING HUMANS

AXE 6: scientific innovations and responsability

How is science helping humans?

In groups A-B

Discuss together the way science can help improve the human condition and discuss the limits.

Group B

Group A

- Identify the subject- Identify the main actors - Pick out the characteristics of the technology and how it works - explain why it revolutionises the patients' lives

- definition of 3D-printing- Why is "bioprinting" another step forward? - explain how bioprinters work (steps)

To go further

You can read the following articles that were published in the National Geographic magazine and that deal with transhumanism - How a Color-Blind Artist Became the World’s First Cyborg - How humans are shaping our evolution - Website of Owen Freeman's illustrations:

DEUX EX: FICTIONAL REVOLUTION

NB before watching: Deux Ex is a video game based on augmented reality that a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.Watch and react.

ADVERTISE AN INVENTION

A. Watch from the beginning to 2'07" B. In groups of 2, imagine the voice-over for a commercial to promote one of the inventions introduced (on the right, another one) and present it to the class.

Ethical issues: To what extent does human improvement benefit humankind?

I. Click on the link to the video entitled "The biohacking ideology" Collect information about: a. biohackers b. the main principles of their philosophy II. Read the text in your book p. 197, the extract from Flowers for Algernon, D. KEYES (1966), and answer question A in your book.