NON-LUDDITE BIOETHICS: Yale’s Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program is sponsoring a conference on transhumanism for June. What’s that?

Transhumanism is a new approach to bioethics which argues that technology can be used to overcome the limitations of the human body, and that individuals should be allowed to enhance their bodies.

Leon Kass will no doubt be appalled. But, you know, people already “enhance” their bodies all the time — just ask Virginia Postrel about her laserized eyes. Or Carmen Electra about, well, pretty much everything, I think. . . .