Emerging Technology Bibliography

 

The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's positions or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.

Artificial Life

  • Forbes, Nancy. Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 
  • Helmreich, Stefan. Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2000.
  • Levy, Steven. Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
  • Moravec, Hans P. Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
  • Moravec, Hans P. Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Kirkup, Gill, Linda Janes, Kathryn Woodward, and Fiona Hovenden, eds. The Gendered Cyborg. New York: Routledge, 1999.
  • Warwik, Kevin.  I, Cyborg. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 

Emerging Technologies (General)

  • Einsiedel, Edna F. Emerging Technologies: From Hindsight to Foresight. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009.
  • Kilner, John F., C. Christopher Hook, and Diann B. Uustal. Cutting-Edge Bioethics: A Christian Exploration of Technologies and Trends. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
  • Stober, Spencer S, and Donna Yari. God, Science, and Designer Genes: An Exploration of Emerging Genetic Technologies. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2009.

 Genetic Engineering

  • Baillie, Harold W., and Timothy K. Casey, eds. Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetic Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 
  • Cole-Turner, Ronald, ed. Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,2008.
  • Schurman, Rachel A., and Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso, eds. Engineering Trouble: Biotechnology and Its Discontents. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.
  • Shannon, Thomas A. Made in Whose Image: Genetic Engineering and Christian Ethics. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2000.
  • Stock, Gregory, and John Campbell, eds. Engineering the Human Germline: An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes We Pass to Our Children. New York:Oxford University Press, 2000.   

 Nanotechnology

  • Allhoff, Fritz, Patrick Lin, James Moor, and John Weckert, eds. Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007.
  • Baird, Davis, Alfred Nordmann, and Joachim Schummer, eds. Discovering the Nanoscale. Fairfax, VA: IOS Press, 2004.
  • Foster, Lynn E. Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2009.
  • Hunt, Geoffrey and Michael Mehta, eds. Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics, and Law. London: Earthscan, 2008.
  • Langwith, Jacqueline, ed. Nanotechnology. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010.
  • Mulhall, Douglas. Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2002.
  • O’Mathúna, Dónal.  Nanoethics: Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology. New York: Continuum, 2009.
  • Wilson, Mick, Kamali Kannangara, Geoff Smith, Michelle Simmons, and Burkhard Raquse. Nanotechnology: Basic Science and Emerging Technologies. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall, 2002.

 

Updated June 2010