The Future's Not What It Used To Be

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Francis Fukuyama, professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University, member of the President's Council on Bioethics and author of Our Posthuman Future (Picador, 2003), worries that biotechnology could change human nature and the foundation of liberal democracy http://www.picadorusa.com/picador/ourposthumanfuture.htm

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