The New Atlantis, Winter 2004 With articles on bioethics, science and poetry, and high-tech romance... By Eric Brown, Eric Cohen, Adam Keiper, Christine Rosen Posted: Monday, March 8, 2004
PRESS RELEASES & NEWS Publication Date: March 8, 2004
The latest issue of The New Atlantis (www.TheNewAtlantis.com) includes major new articles on high-tech courtship, environmental politics, and the news from the world of nanotech. This issue also features a major bioethics symposium, and three articles analyzing the new Bush space policy.
Paul Cantor on the surprising wrinkles in an age-old rivalry
The Spirit of Discovery
Thoughts on President Bush’s new space policy - Adam Keiper on the plan and its critics - Robert Park on the virtual astronaut - Robert Zubrin on the human explorer
The New Atlantis is an effort to clarify the nation's moral and political understanding of all areas of technology, with a special emphasis on bioethics. The quarterly journal is an attempt to make sense of the larger questions surrounding technology and human nature, and the practical questions of governing and regulating science -- especially where the moral stakes are high and the political divides are deep.
In the latest issue:
The Editors on John McCain and the Stem Cell Debate. Yuval Levin on the past and future of the “party of science.” O. Carter Snead on brain scans and the conflicted aspirations of neuroscience. Matthew B. Crawford on the dangers of a mindless brain science. Cheryl Miller on the lively and fractious community of “infertiles.” Thomas W. Merrill reads Descartes’ Discourse on Method. Jeremy Lott on suburbs, bomb shelters, and bottled water. Christy Hall Robinson on celebrity patients as advocates. James C. Capretta on why health care records are so low-tech. Caitrin Nicol on predictions of robotic intimacy. David Franz on the utopian origins of Dilbert's sorkspace. George Mitchell on drugs in baseball.