As previously mentioned Steve Reich's Dolly piece is a real roll call of people from the Post-Humanist movement (is there one yet? - yes, see www.posthuman.com ). Here's the list (in order of appearance):
- Ruth Deech - Dir UK HFEA
- Richard Dawkins - Genes and Memes (also this unofficial site)
- James Watson - DNA
- Gina Kolata - Dolly journalist
- Kismet - robot by Cynthia Breazeal
- Stephen Jay Gould - Zoologist
- Jaron Lanier - coined "virtual reality"
- Sherry Turkle - Computer sociologist
- Rodney Brooks - Dir MIT AI Lab
- Steven Pinker - Psychologist and Neurolinguist
- Robert Pollack - DNA bioscientist
- Adin Steinsaltz - Rabbi
- Kevin Warwick - Prof of Cybernetics at Reading
- Joshua Getzler - lawyer
- Ray Kurzweil - Synth and Speech Rec inventor
- Cynthia Breazeal - roboticist
- Bill Joy - Sun and Java - good wired article on his views of Ray Kurzweil
- Marvin Minksy - AI
- Henri Atlan - biologist
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