Chapter 88
Eric Steinhart, "Teilhard de Chardin and Transhumanism," Journal of Evolution and Technology 20, no. 1 (December 2008): 122.
26 for the brains of people who have Parkinson's disease
Wilson, "Bionic Brains and Beyond."
27 provide deep brain stimulation to alleviate their symptoms
Ibid.
28 activated in stages to give the brain a chance to adjust to them
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Cochlear Implant Information, http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/otolaryngology/specialty_areas/listencenter/cochlear_info.html#activation.
29 "designer babies" may be highly appealing to some parents
Kleiner, "Designer Babies"; Mark Henderson, "Demand for 'Designer Babies' to Grow Dramatically," Times (London), January 7, 2010.
30 compet.i.tive parenting has already done for the test preparation industry
Jose Ferreira, "A Short History of the Standardized Test Prep Industry," Knewton Blog, February 17, 2010, http://www.knewton.com/blog/edtech/2010/02/17/a-short-history-of-the-standardized-test-prep-industry/; Julian Brookes, "Chris Hayes on the Twilight of the Elites and the End of Meritocracy," Rolling Stone, July 11, 2012.
31 other parents may feel that they have to do the same
Armand Marie Leroi, "The Future of Neo-Eugenics," EMBO Reports 7 (2006): 118487.
32 may trigger collateral genetic changes that are not yet fully understood
Mike Steere, "Designer Babies: Creating the Perfect Child," CNN, October 30, 2008.
33 "We will have converted old-style evolution into neo-evolution"
Harvey Fineberg, "Are We Ready for Neo-Evolution?," TED Talks, 2011.
34 the United States is decreasing its investment in biomedical research
Robert D. Atkinson et al., Leaders.h.i.+p in Decline: a.s.sessing U.S. International Compet.i.tiveness in Biomedical Research (Was.h.i.+ngton, DC: Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 2012).
35 "It's time for everyone to pull their heads out of the sand"
"Designer Baby Row Over US Clinic," BBC, March 2, 2009.
36 "who deserves to be born?"
Andrew Pollack, "DNA Blueprint for Fetus Built Using Tests of Parents," New York Times, June 6, 2012.
37 "They feel disempowered"
Steere, "Designer Babies."
38 "would undermine humanity and create a techno-eugenic rat race"
Ibid.
39 will soon exceed the sequencing capacity of the entire United States
j.a.pan External Trade Organization, "BGI, China's Leading Genome Research Inst.i.tute, Has Established a j.a.panese Arm in Kobe," February 7, 2012; Fiona Tam, "Scientists Seek to Unravel the Mystery of IQ," translated by Steve Hsu, South China Morning Post, December 4, 2010.
40 occupations that make the best use of their capabilities
"The Dragon's DNA," Economist, June 17, 2010; Emily Chang, "In China, DNA Tests on Kids ID Genetic Gifts, Careers," CNN, August 5, 2009, http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/03/china.dna.children.ability/.
41 over $100 billion on life sciences research over just the last three years
Lone Frank, "High-Quality DNA," Newsweek, April 24, 2011.