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James Hughes

Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

James Hughes Ph.D. is a bioethicist and sociologist. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he also taught bioethics at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. From 1999-2011 he produced the syndicated weekly radio program, Changesurfer Radi.

  • Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
  • Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning for the University of Massachusetts Boston
  • Author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future

As of 2020 he is working on a second book tentatively titled Cyborg Buddha

Visit website: https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/bio/hughes

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 CitizenCyborg

See also: Institute Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) - International nonprofit technoprogressive think tank

Details last updated 25-Apr-2020

James Hughes is also referenced in the following:

Healthy Masters International Conference

05-Nov-2022 to 06-Nov-2022

Healthy Masters conference about living longer and healthier life

Healthy Masters International Conference 2023

11-Nov-2023 to 12-Nov-2023

Healthy Masters conference about living longer and healthier life

The Politics of Transhumanism, with James Hughes

James Hughes on the Politics of Transhumanism

Transvision Utrecht 2024

20-Jan-2024 to 21-Jan-2024

International forum for exchange of ideas related to transhumanism 1co-organized by the French Association for Transhumanism and London Futurists (Netherlands)

James Hughes Blog Posts

Summary of London Futurists’ Engineering Greater Human Resilience Panel Discussion
27-Apr-2020

Summary of London Futurists’ Engineering Greater Human Resilience Panel Discussion

Interesting thoughts from an international panel of futurists